EXPERIENCE

Hamilton, ON, Canada|August 2025 – Present

80 percent coding. 20 percent crying. Featuring Rayan.

Designed, built, and launched MacMarketplace with a four person team, a verified McMaster email marketplace that reached more than 200 users and 70 listings in its first 48 hours.
Engineered the entire backend using Firebase, creating a scalable NoSQL data model and real time infrastructure capable of supporting thousands of active students.
Developed a real time messaging system with media sharing, unread indicators, timestamps, and sub second delivery, forming the core interaction experience on the platform.
Built every major product surface including onboarding, listing creation, media processing pipelines, and a fully responsive interface using React, Vite, and TailwindCSS.

Hamilton, ON, Canada|January 2025 – Present

My first tutorial. Teaching quickly became one of my favorite parts of computer science.

Led weekly tutorials and created practice materials for foundational and upper-year CS courses including 1DM3 (Discrete Math), 1MD3, 2AC3 (Automata & Computability), 2ME3, and 3BB4.
Supported 150+ students through consistent office hours, assignment guidance, theory explanations, and debugging help.
Collaborated with instructors to refine grading workflows and improve feedback turnaround time.
Handled both theoretical content (proofs, automata, logic) and applied programming problem-solving.

Remote|May 2025 – July 2025

An AI automation I built to eliminate repetitive work and make systems run themselves.

Architected a full conversational automation system using MAKE, n8n, and Zapier, enabling human-like WhatsApp interactions that greet, qualify, and route leads.
Built secure API bridges between WhatsApp, OpenAI/GPT agents, HubSpot, Airtable, and custom CRMs to achieve real-time lead capture and automatic record enrichment.
Developed multi-step workflows with intelligent branching, fallback logic, data validation, and dynamic message sequencing.
Performed a technical comparison of automation platforms (MAKE, n8n, Zapier), analyzing reliability, scalability, error handling, pricing tiers, and API flexibility.
Created deployment-friendly templates allowing the entire system to be replicated for new clients in under 30 minutes.
Documented the entire pipeline with workflow diagrams, onboarding guides, token management instructions, and API setup details for non-technical users.

Remote|May 2024 – September 2024

unfortunately no photos for this one but heres a picture of me with the guys from last summer

Mapped the entire recruitment workflow end-to-end and translated HR requirements into technical specifications for the dev team.
Supported SAP HCM integration by aligning data fields, validating sync behavior, and ensuring consistent schema mappings.
Designed wireframes and improved page flows for candidate review and job posting interfaces.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure accuracy of data and consistency of user experiences across platforms.