“One area where Sunny truly shines is in his leadership skills, setting him apart from his peers. His ability to work hard and solve problems efficiently has been evident throughout our collaboration. Sunny consistently demonstrates respect for his seniors and displays a keen enthusiasm for learning new skills.”
Sunny Shaban Ali.
Software engineer. Builds agentic AI systems, industrial IoT, and the tooling around them.
CS graduate from FAST-NUCES Karachi (CGPA 3.75), currently shipping at Astera Software as an Associate Software Engineer. I build full-stack systems across MERN/PERN, Spring Boot, and Rust, plus the AI/ML products that ride on top.
Lately: co-architecting agentic AI pipelines for UI regression, engineering long-term memory for enterprise AI agents, wiring MCP server connectivity into enterprise studios, and load-testing SignalR services at 100K+ requests. Previously: replaced legacy SAP/vendor systems at Dawlance for €60K in savings, and led real-time IoT analytics on factory floors.
On the side: Microsoft Azure DB Emerald Contributor (15+ resolved issues), Postman Student Leader, MongoDB SME, ACM Frontend Head, and 1st Runner-Up at HackOps'25.
Engineering roles
Astera (2), 10Pearls, Dawlance, MazikGlobal
Saved per year
Dawlance factory analytics
Users served
Coders Cup registration portal
IEEE papers accepted
IBCAST 2026, sole and first author
Experience.
From AI intern to Associate SWE in a year: agentic pipelines, full-stack APIs, factory-floor IoT, computer vision.
Jul 2026 – Present
Karachi, PK
CurrentAstera Software
Associate Software Engineer
- Co-architected an agentic AI pipeline for Centerprise WPF UI regression with a 5-engineer team, automating end-to-end test generation and validation across 60+ wizards; eliminated manual QA, now the default gate on every Centerprise build.
- Engineered long-term memory for Centerprise AI agents: three-layer (facts, scenarios, persona) system with background LLM fact extraction, similarity-based dedup, and hybrid pgvector + full-text retrieval; injects per-turn user context at ~20ms.
- Introduced external MCP server connectivity in Centerprise and Astera Studio, persisting credentials via vault at user and tenant scope with project-level binding; eliminated per-project re-auth and powered the downstream SignalR agent service.
- Built a Teams meeting-scheduling AI agent on Microsoft Graph APIs with AI skills for calendar, roster, and availability; offloaded timezone, conflict, and name-parsing to deterministic Python, keeping LLMs out of scheduling decisions.
- Resolved 126 bugs in a company-wide sprint, including one root-cause fix that ended multiple recurring failures in Centerprise's critical job scheduler.
Agentic AIMCPpgvectorSignalRMicrosoft GraphMar 2026 – Jun 2026
Karachi, PK
Astera Software
Trainee Software Engineer
- Designed and built a Playwright UI regression suite for Astera Studio Web, covering 470 test cases across 8 functional areas with parallel execution and auto-retry; reported 30 new bugs and cut post-deploy smoke testing from hours to minutes.
- Benchmarked 4 load-testing strategies for the SignalR agent service and selected k6, authoring a custom xk6-signalr extension in Go with a JWT/CSV harness; mapped the safe-throughput envelope and cleared the service for production.
Playwrightk6GoSignalRLoad testingDec 2025 – Feb 2026
Karachi, PK
10Pearls
Java Full-Stack Intern
- Developed a full-stack Java contact management app: Spring Boot REST APIs with PostgreSQL and JPA behind a React frontend; integrated SonarQube quality gates and cut response times 40% through query optimization and caching.
Spring BootPostgreSQLJPAReactSonarQubeJul 2025 – Aug 2025
Karachi, PK
Top Intern · Golden KeyDawlance · Subsidiary of Arçelik Türkiye
SWE Intern
- Built a real-time factory analytics platform (MERN + TypeScript) that replaced legacy SAP and vendor systems, streaming live PLC signals from shop-floor machines over WebSockets via Raspberry Pi (Rust, S7 protocol).
- Delivered €60K in annual savings through automated breakdown detection, real-time alerting, and OEE/MTTR/MTBF dashboards (Redis, MongoDB aggregations) across 4 machines; named Top Intern and awarded the Golden Key.
RustAxumReactTypeScriptSocket.IOIndustrial IoTJun 2025 – Jul 2025
Karachi, PK
MazikGlobal Pakistan
AI Intern
- Built an AI fitness platform around a modular LangChain tool-calling agent (mood tracking, RAG-based Q&A, report generation, profile updates) with CNN-based real-time posture detection in TensorFlow at 94% accuracy.
- Shipped video-based workout-plan generation via FastAPI with a React progress dashboard; evolving MongoDB user summaries cut chatbot latency on repeat interactions.
LangChainFastAPITensorFlowRAGReactMongoDB
Projects.
Research, hackathon wins, shipped apps, and upstream open-source work. Most recent first.

Open-Source · Collaborative LaTeX Editor
Scribe
Self-hostable Overleaf alternative where one Rust (Axum) binary runs the whole API: REST routes, a Yjs CRDT hub for multi-cursor editing, a Redis-backed compile queue, and an AI proxy wired for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Ollama, LM Studio, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Collaborators get WebRTC voice chat right in the editor. The Tauri 2 desktop bundles the Tectonic engine and mirrors projects to SQLite, so a clean Windows machine compiles a paper on first launch and offline edits sync back through three-way conflict resolution. Ships as signed MSI/NSIS installers, licensed AGPL-3.0.

Final Year Project · R&D
Agentic Multi-Modal Triage of Citizen Flood Reports at Scale
Constructed and released the Close-View Flood Dataset (CVFD) on Kaggle: 7,855 images with pixel-wise semantic segmentation masks across 3 operationally motivated rescue classes, with inter-annotator agreement of Cohen's κ = 0.81. Benchmarked 7 vision architectures on CVFD and identified fine-tuned DINOv3 as optimal at 98.84% accuracy (±0.08) with 21.6M parameters, matching Swin Transformer at one-quarter the parameter count. Built an agentic triage pipeline fusing a CV Agent (DINOv3 + SAM 3) with a zero-shot multilingual LM Agent into a composite priority scorer, validated via Spearman's ρ and Cohen's κ.

Industrial IoT · Dawlance
LineSentry
Real-time OEE / MTTR / MTBF analytics platform, a vendor-neutral replacement for costly legacy industrial monitoring (€60K saved), live on 4 machines at Dawlance and designed to scale to hundreds across multiple PLCs. Per-PLC Tokio daemons on Raspberry Pi read Siemens S7 bytes via snap7-rs and POST hex frames to a Rust (Axum) backend that decodes Q{byte}.{bit} pins through a multi-PLC registry, runs a 4-state machine, and persists to MongoDB with timezone bucketed aggregations. React 18 dashboards stream over Socket.IO with Recharts, guided machine setup, and SAP-linked stoppage classification; secured with JWT, reCAPTCHA, and RBAC; shipped via Docker Compose.

Agentic AI Fitness · MazikGlobal
Trainiac
AI fitness platform anchored by a modular LangChain tool-calling agent (mood tracking, RAG-based Q&A, report generation, profile updates) with CNN-based real-time posture detection in TensorFlow at 94% accuracy. Video-based workout-plan generation via FastAPI and a React progress dashboard; MongoDB-stored evolving user summaries cut chatbot response latency on repeat interactions.

HackOps'25 · 1st Runner-Up
Jild · AI Skincare Analysis
1st Runner-Up at HackOps'25 for an AI skincare analyzer detecting acne and dark circles at 83.8% mAP@50 on a ~2k-image dataset, returning severity scores and matched product/routine recommendations. React + Tailwind + MUI frontend on Vercel with a Dockerized Flask inference service and Supabase, IaC via Terraform; GitHub Actions CI/CD with SonarCloud, GitGuardian, and Dependabot held critical vulnerabilities at zero through release.

Open-Source · 880+ ★
Hyprland Starter
Contributed an open-source screenshot tool to ML4W Hyprland Starter, a popular Arch Linux desktop project (880+ GitHub stars); supports region, fullscreen, interactive, clipboard, and color-picker capture, all triggered via Print Screen shortcuts. Merged 8 keyboard shortcuts (volume, brightness, mute, microphone, WiFi, screen refresh) and a lockscreen display fix for 1920×1080 monitors, across 2 pull requests upstream.

PERN · 2.5K+ users
Coders Cup Registration Portal
Built the Coders Cup contest portal in React + Tailwind on Azure Web App with multi-field client validation and Google reCAPTCHA v2, handling 2,500+ users and 900+ team registrations for ACM NUCES. Ranked top-3 on Google for "Coders Cup" keywords with 9,900 page views; shipped via GitHub Actions CI/CD and awarded Special Mention for leading platform development.

Python · OCR
Automated Invoice Processor
AI-powered OCR tool using Python, PyTesseract, Matplotlib, and PyQt5 to parse 100+ invoice formats at 93% accuracy, reducing manual processing time by 40% through automated extraction and validation.

Interactive Algorithm Visualizer · 27 Algorithms
AlgoViz
Interactive visualizer for 27 classic algorithms across sorting, searching, geometry, math — and quantum computing — running one step at a time with synced pseudocode highlighting, plain-English narration of every move, live operation counters, and full timeline control at 1–25 steps per second. Every algorithm is a pure step generator emitting frame snapshots, all driven by a single playback engine. The quantum suite is an exact state-vector simulation: a clickable Bloch sphere, interfering amplitude bars, and Shor's genuine QFT spectrum. A verification harness replays every generator against randomized inputs with 340k+ assertions against reference implementations.
Skills.
Grouped by where each tool sits in the system.
Languages
7- Python· 4y
- C/C++· 3y
- JavaScript· 2y
- Java· 1y
- C#
- Go
- Rust· 6m
Rust Ecosystem
4- Actix· web
- Axum· web
- Tauri· desktop
- Dioxus· ui
Frontend
4- React.js· 1y
- Tailwind CSS
- Material UI
- HTML5 / CSS3
Backend & Data
7- Node.js
- .NET
- Express
- Spring Boot
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
AI / ML
7- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- MediaPipe
- YOLO v8
- OpenCV
- Scikit-learn
- PyTesseract
Microsoft Stack
5- D365 FinOps
- D365 CRM
- Power Platform
- Power Automate
- Azure
Agentic / Automation
4- MCP
- Langflow
- Make.ai
- SignalR
DevOps & Tooling
6- Docker
- Terraform
- Grafana
- SonarQube
- Git
- JMeter
Parallel Computing
5- POSIX Threads
- MPI
- OpenMP
- CUDA
- Hadoop
Certifications.
Verified credentials across quantum computing, cloud, data, APIs, and full-stack engineering.
Fundamentals of Quantum Algorithms
IBM · May 2026
Quantum algorithm design and analysis on real quantum systems.
Quantum Machine Learning
IBM · Mar 2026
Variational circuits, kernels, and ML on quantum hardware.
Basics of Quantum Information
IBM · Mar 2026
Qubits, superposition, entanglement, and measurement foundations.
Azure AI Fundamentals
Microsoft · 2024
Cloud AI services, ML workloads, and responsible AI on Azure.
Associate Developer
MongoDB · 2024
Document modeling, aggregation pipelines, and NoSQL development.
API Fundamentals Expert
Postman · 2024
REST design, testing, and collaboration in production API workflows.
Foundations
GitHub · 2024
Git, GitHub Actions, and collaborative source-control workflows.
Full Stack Software Developer
IBM · 2024
End-to-end application development across cloud-native stacks.
Data Scientist
IBM · 2024
Applied data science: analysis, modeling, and ML pipelines.
CS50P · Python
HarvardX · 2023
Programming foundations and computational thinking in Python.
CS50X · Computer Science
HarvardX · 2020
Algorithms, data structures, web, and systems fundamentals.
Awards and service.
Recognition for engineering work, academic standing, and the communities around them.
2× IEEE IBCAST 2026 · Accepted Papers
IEEE · 2026
CutQ: What Works and What Doesn’t for QAOA on Max-Cut (sole author) and Agentic Multi-Modal Triage of Citizen Flood Reports at Scale (first author).
1st Runner-Up · HackOps'25
FAST-NUCES · Apr 2025
Awarded for Jild, an AI skincare analysis tool achieving 83.8% mAP@50 across acne and dark spot detection.
Top Intern · Golden Key
Dawlance · Aug 2025
Recognized for delivering a real-time industrial analytics platform that significantly enhanced factory operational visibility.
2× Rector's List · Gold Medal
FAST-NUCES · 2024 - 2025
Top GPA in the cohort across two semesters, each Rector's List recognition came with the semester Gold Medal. Latest in Fall 2025 with a perfect 4.0/4.0 GPA.
3× Dean's List
FAST-NUCES · 2022 - 2024
Three semesters on the Dean's List for sustained academic excellence across the BSCS program.
Emerald Contributor
Microsoft Azure DB · Apr 2024 - Apr 2025
Resolved 15+ community issues and contributed documentation enhancements for Azure DB for MySQL.
Frontend Head · ACM NUCES
ACM Web Development · Sep 2024 - Present
Led a team of 8 developers across 4 projects, including the Coders Cup registration portal. Ongoing for 1 yr 9 mos.
Postman Student Leader
Postman · May 2024 - Jan 2025
Conducted API workshops for 150+ students across multiple universities; 9-month tenure.
MongoDB Subject Matter Expert
MongoDB · Jul 2024 - Jan 2025
Reviewed 50+ Associate Developer Python Certification exam questions alongside 3 other SMEs.
SOP & Compliance Head · PROCOM
FAST-NUCES · Sep - Nov 2024
Led SOP and compliance for PROCOM, FAST-NUCES's flagship tech competition.
Moments.
Medals, hackathons, internships, and the people in the room.

FAST-NUCES · May 2026
Final Year Project · Completion
Wrapped the Final Year Project on Agentic Multi-Modal Triage of Citizen Flood Reports with my supervisor and group. 98.84% accuracy on the CVFD and a published dataset to show for it.

FAST-NUCES · Fall 2025
Rector's List · Gold Medal
Rector's List and semester Gold Medal for a perfect 4.0/4.0 GPA in Fall 2025, the final year of the BSCS program.

Dawlance · Arçelik Türkiye · Aug 2025
Golden Key · Top Intern
Awarded the Golden Key for delivering the real-time industrial analytics platform that replaced legacy SAP and vendor systems with €60K in savings.

MazikGlobal Pakistan · Jun 2025
AI Internship · MazikGlobal
Joined as AI Intern. Built a real-time exercise posture detection system at 94% accuracy on TensorFlow + MediaPipe.

FAST-NUCES · Apr 2025
1st Runner-Up · HackOps'25
Brought home the trophy with Jild, an AI skincare analysis tool at 83.8% mAP@50, built end-to-end in 36 hours.

ACM NUCES · Sep 2024
ACM Frontend Head
Took over as Web Development Frontend Head, leading 8 developers across 4 projects.

FAST-NUCES · 2024
Rector's List · Gold Medal
Rector's List and semester Gold Medal, awarded for the top GPA in the BSCS cohort.

FAST-NUCES · Dec 2022
Runner-Up · Intra-Parli Debate
Took the runner-up trophy at the intra-parliamentary debate. Constructive disagreement, on the clock.

Sceptre College · Oct 2021
President · Sceptre Literati
Badged in as President of the Sceptre Literati Society. Pre-university leadership where the habit of showing up started.
What people say.
Notes from mentors, team leads, and collaborators. Swipe or drag.
Let’s talk.
Open to engineering roles and interesting problems.
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