Akib Rahman
Teacher Assistant at Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkib Rahman is an electrical engineering student and teacher assistant at Virginia Commonwealth University with eight years of hands-on experience blending hardware and software. He builds embedded systems—currently developing an Arm Cortex-M4 line-following and obstacle-avoidance robot—and enjoys the eureka moments of debugging and iterative design. As a front-end contributor to the Hack for LA website, he improved accessible filtering and responsive card layouts, showing attention to UX and real-world civic projects. Based in Richmond, VA, he tinkers confidently across disciplines and commits weeks to solve challenging problems, making him a dependable collaborator for internships or embedded/web projects.
8 years of coding experience
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth UniversityWorking on Bachelors, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Working on Bachelors, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University - School of Engineering
Bengali, Malay
Github Skills (7)
html10
css10
responsive-design10
javascript10
front-end-development10
jekyll10
accessibility9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hackforla/website
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
Hack for LA's website
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:206 reviews, 74 commits, 213 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Akib primarily focused on implementing and refining the filter functionality on the "wins" page. This involved modifications to the HTML (wins.html, wins-card-template.html) and the addition of CSS media queries for responsiveness. The commits also include changes to the JavaScript for filter creation and card display, as well as refactoring and a11y for the wins page modal. The user also made adjustments to other pages and included styling changes.
docker-composejekylldocker
akibrhast/website
Feb 2021 - Aug 2021
Hack for LA's website
Contributions:1 release, 41 PRs, 296 pushes in 6 months
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