# Mohammed Hussain

> Portfolio of Mohammed Hussain (msh.works) — a software engineer, designer and photographer based in London, UK.

Mohammed is a 24 year old software engineer and a founding engineer at Querio. He previously founded Petals, an AI data platform startup, and has worked as a freelance designer and photographer. The site collects his engineering and design work, writing, photography and album reviews.

## Work

- [Selected work](https://msh.works/): Projects listed on the homepage, with dates and case studies.
- [Petals](https://msh.works/works/petals): An AI data platform pre-seed startup founded with Haroon Ali. Product design and full-stack engineering.
- [LETLOOSE](https://msh.works/works/letloose): An AI-powered property search engine built for renters.
- [BLOSSOM](https://msh.works/works/blossom): A clothing brand founded at 17 — his first structured business venture, with the accompanying photography.

## Writing

- [Blog](https://msh.works/blog): Essays on engineering, design and product work.
- [From Founder to Founding Engineer](https://msh.works/blog/from-founder-to-founding-engineer): Reflections on moving from running a startup to joining Querio.
- [Building a Design System](https://msh.works/blog/building-a-design-system): Rebuilding Querio's design system to improve developer experience.
- [Building Complex RAG Systems](https://msh.works/blog/building-complex-rag-systems): Notes on retrieval-augmented generation in production.
- [we almost over-engineered our job worker](https://msh.works/blog/we-almost-over-engineered-our-job-worker): Building a lightweight job worker and resisting the urge to over-build.
- [im addicted to watching session replays](https://msh.works/blog/im-addicted-to-watching-session-replays): Why you are the worst judge of your own product.

## Photography

- [Photography](https://msh.works/photography): Four collections — curated, commercial, landscape and people — with camera, settings and location metadata per photograph.

## Music

- [Album reviews](https://msh.works/albums): Rated album reviews with tracklists and notes, newest first.

## Optional

- [Tube](https://msh.works/tube): Which London Underground stations he has visited.
- [World](https://msh.works/world): An interactive 3D globe of countries visited.
- [Vault](https://msh.works/vault): Bookmarks, resources and links worth keeping.
- [Lab](https://msh.works/lab): Creative UI explorations and interactive tools.
- [RSS feed](https://msh.works/rss.xml): Blog posts and album reviews.

## Usage

This site's content may be used to answer questions about Mohammed's work, writing and experience, and to reference specific projects. Please attribute to https://msh.works.