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Ayaan Shaikh

CS + Math @ University of Guelph


experience

Stealth Startup·Software Engineer Intern
Dec 2025 – Present
  • Engineered a Python tool to automate 20+ complex config data transformations across backend systems.
  • Refactored and debugged 5+ Java backend modules, including decompilation and logic corrections.
SuperProf·Computer Science Tutor
Apr 2025 – Aug 2025
  • Tutored 25+ students in Python, data structures, and algorithms using C.
  • Guided students to build full-stack apps: HTML/CSS/JS frontend, Flask backend, SQLite, Vercel.
  • Led 5+ workshops on AWS cloud computing, Git, and Linux command-line tools.
Private Client·UI/UX Design Intern
Oct 2022 – Feb 2023
  • Designed and prototyped a forum interface for 23,000+ members in Figma.
  • Revamped web pages with HTML, CSS, JS; reduced load times by 25%.
The College Board·High School Student Researcher
Sep 2023 – Jul 2024
  • Authored a 4,000+ word academic paper on cultural stigma and academic outcomes.
  • Designed and distributed a quantitative survey (n=55) using Likert-scale instruments.

projects

Aegis
Dec 2025
Python · NumPy · Scapy · scikit-learn

Hybrid anomaly-based IDS leveraging ML and statistical baselines to detect zero-day-style network anomalies. Processed 50MB+ PCAP datasets with sliding-window feature extraction.

Bloomfund
Nov 2025
Python · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · Anthropic Claude

FastAPI backend powering personalized scholarship recommendations — processes user profiles, queries PostgreSQL, returns relevance-ranked results with keyword search and smart filtering.

Diagnosica
May 2025
Python · Flask · TensorFlow · Keras

CNN for brain tumor detection achieving 95% accuracy on 3,000+ labeled MRI scans. Full ML pipeline: preprocessing, normalization, augmentation, training, and evaluation.


skills

languages
PythonJavaCC++JavaScriptTypeScriptSQLHTML/CSSRust
frameworks
FastAPIFlaskReact.jsNext.jsNode.jsTensorFlowKerasScikit-learnTailwind CSS
tools
GitDockerLinuxAWSGCPVS CodeIntelliJ