AfeefShaikh

About

I started in business technology at TMU, worked as a developer and a research assistant, and I'm now doing a Master of Computer Science at Texas A&M. My focus is machine learning and data. I also build full-stack apps, so the models I train end up in products people can actually use. Away from the keyboard, I play table tennis.

• Share of purchases, top 10 vendors

  65.7% from 10 vendors

  #1Diageo16.3%

  Largest vendor Running total

  Data, 2025

  Vendor performance and supply chain analytics

  An end-to-end analysis of $441M in procurement data that found $18.6M tied up in dead inventory and a dangerous dependence on ten vendors.

  • Python
  • SQL
  • SciPy
  • Power BI
  • Streamlit

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  Class

  Apple, black rot

  ModelCNN

  Classes38

  Val. accuracy87.5%

  Machine learning, 2025

  Plant disease prediction

  A convolutional neural network that identifies 38 plant diseases from a photo of a leaf, served through a live web app.

  • Python
  • TensorFlow / Keras
  • CNN
  • Streamlit

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• Resume vs. job description

  Example

  PythonSQLNLPStreamlit

  0%JD match

  Missing keywords

  DockerAirflowA/B testing

  Machine learning, 2025

  Smart ATS

  Upload a resume and paste a job description. Gemini scores the match, lists missing keywords and suggests what to fix before you apply.

  • Python
  • Streamlit
  • Google Gemini
  • PyPDF2

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• Agent Pursuer Explored

  Machine learning, 2026In progress

  LLM-guided path planning

  Can a large language model make classic search smarter? A graduate AI project testing LLM guidance against hand-written heuristics, extended to pursuit-evasion games.

  • Python
  • LLM APIs
  • Heuristic search
  • Minimax

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• Real-time stock events

  Streaming

  Data, 2025

  Real-time stock market pipeline

  A streaming data pipeline that pushes live stock market events through Kafka on AWS and makes them queryable with SQL in Athena.

  • Python
  • Apache Kafka
  • AWS EC2
  • S3
  • Glue
  • Athena

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  Full stack, 2025

  Alliance IT ticketing system

  An IT support platform for Alliance for Healthier Communities, a non-profit, with role-based dashboards, analytics and an AI help assistant.

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • shadcn/ui
  • Recharts

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  Full stack, 2025

  Toronto Cypress

  A civic reporting platform where Toronto residents pin potholes, broken street lights and graffiti on a map and track the fix.

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Google Maps API
  • shadcn/ui

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• 

  Full stack, 2024

  Quizzy

  An AI flashcard generator. Give it a topic and it builds a personalized study deck in seconds.

  • Next.js
  • React
  • OpenAI API
  • Firebase
  • Stripe

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1. Aug 2026 to Present

   Graduate Teaching Assistant

   Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

   • TA for CSCE 482 Senior Capstone Design.
   • Review and grade students' individual progress reports with written feedback.

2. May 2025 to Aug 2025

   Research Assistant, Data Engineering

   URO Program, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON

   Supervisor: Dr. Pedro Seguel

   • Built and tuned Python ETL pipelines for job postings from 2010 to 2023, making processing 40% more efficient and cutting manual prep by 80%.
   • Improved skill extraction through APIs and led data quality work that resolved 90% of duplicate records.
   • Applied clustering to surface hiring and skill trends, and built dashboards to present them.

   Used: Python, SQL, pandas, NLP, Clustering

3. Feb 2025 to Jul 2026

   Junior Software Developer

   A2Z IT Consulting Services, Toronto, ON

   • Built an end-to-end client management system in Next.js and PostgreSQL that cut client communication overhead by 60%.
   • Automated invoicing and reconciliation for 15+ clients with the Stripe API.
   • Added secure, real-time access with NextAuth and Pusher.
   • Set up CI/CD on Vercel, cutting deployment time by 75% with 99.9% uptime on client dashboards.

   Used: Next.js, PostgreSQL, Stripe, NextAuth, Pusher, Vercel

4. Feb 2025 to Apr 2025

   Research Assistant, Gen AI in Healthcare

   Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON

   Supervisor: Dr. Zeinab Noorian

   • Built a full-stack portal on the OpenAI API.
   • Designed and prompt-engineered a GPT-4 mental health triage chatbot on Poe, featured in class demos.

   Used: OpenAI API, GPT-4, Prompt engineering

5. Feb 2025 to Apr 2025

   Research Assistant, Automation and Analytics

   Bridging Divides, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON

   • Automated an end-to-end Python and pandas ETL for 300+ peer-reviewed papers across 17 journals, producing a clean dataset and 9 HTML tables and cutting manual prep by 80%.
   • Scripted the Google Drive API to organize large file structures.
   • Turned researchers' requirements into data solutions, with charts kept in a Git-reviewed workflow.

   Used: Python, pandas, SQL, Google Drive API

6. Jun 2024 to Sep 2024

   Software Engineering Fellow

   Headstarter, Remote

   • Built five AI and web projects, including an AI customer support bot, an AI flashcard generator, a pantry tracker and an AI Rate My Professor tool.
   • Focused on UI, branding and hitting deadlines, with each launch aimed at 1,000 users.
   • Took part in hackathons and mock interviews, and presented projects to engineers.

   Used: React, Next.js, Firebase, OpenAI, AWS, Stripe, RAG