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for the Year of Our Code 2026 · Calculated for the Meridian of Waterloo
ALI SHAHZAD, a student of BASc, Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo (2026 – 2031), being formerly a holder of the IB Diploma, the SAT 1600/1600, the 100% Merit Scholarship, doth hereby set forth these particulars. I build software that holds up under pressure, and the tests that prove it.
Software Engineering Intern (Forward-Deployed). Instruments: Python, SQL, AWS.
☞ Adapted a B2B AI voice-agent platform to each client's workflow with Python integrations into their databases, CRMs, and scheduling tools.
☞ Worked directly with client engineers and stakeholders to review codebases, gather requirements, and plan integrations.
☞ Merged email, phone, and social interactions into unified customer profiles for the voice agents.
Mobile Development Intern. Instruments: React Native, Laravel.
☞ Halved app startup time by moving blocking initialization work to asynchronous operations.
☞ Built and documented React Native screens with designers, wired to APIs, databases, and server components.
☞ Wrote Laravel MVC backend code for apps handling national ID (CNIC) data; senior review found no security issues or bugs.
Browser workspace for training & testing language models.
Launch training runs, compare checkpoints, and try models through streaming as-you-type autocomplete. Validated forms, live loss charts and logs, and a graceful stop that saves a resumable checkpoint. 127-test suite, zero skips: exact checkpoint replay, compiled-model correctness, evaluation behaviour.
Composed in Python, FastAPI, JavaScript, SSE
Local-first personal knowledge base.
Captures notes, email, and browsing into searchable local storage with a plug-in system for new sources. Chrome extension with an offline IndexedDB outbox and backoff retries that survive network loss and restarts. Safe AI-agent edits: scoped views, transactional writes, idempotency keys, dry-run preview, audit log.
Composed in TypeScript, React, Bun, SQLite
Tested simulation & analysis CLI.
Found, documented, and fixed three bugs in the original simulator. Added 8 Rust and 26 Python tests, linting, an end-to-end demo, and Windows checks to CI. Packaged an installable Python CLI for reproducible runs, plots, and model verification.
Composed in Rust, Python, GitHub Actions
MCP server that lets an agent find the WaterlooWorks jobs that suit you best.
Composed in TypeScript, MCP
A toy language built on Brainfuck with real conveniences, running on a stack-based VM.
Composed in Rust
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