Shaad Alaka
Research Software Engineer at Delft University of Technology
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolShaad Alaka is a research software engineer and MSc Computer Science candidate at TU Delft with a decade of practical experience building prototypes, tooling, and web demos that free researchers to focus on science. For over four years he has supported multiple research groups as a developer and educator, having supervised dozens of student project teams and built production demos like Modelsearch and components for crowd-sourcing and stream-processing platforms. He combines full-stack engineering with domain fluency in data science and research infrastructure, and brings hands-on experience with Jupyter integrations, Apache Flink back-ends and data discovery services. Outside academia he leads and programs for a student-founded game studio (Invertigo), composes and designs sound for games including Xonotic and Unreal Tournament community releases, and regularly participates in game jams—reflecting a rare blend of software, multimedia and product instincts.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
VWO, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, VWO, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Maerlant BrielleMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Delft University of Technology
Dutch, English
Github Skills (115)
python10
pandas10
data-science10
data-structure10
data-analysis10
data-structures10
distribute9
testing9
javascript8
levenshtein-distance8
complex-numbers8
edit-distance8
jupyterlab8
feature-selection8
matching8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cakefm/crowd_task_manager
Mar 2020 - May 2021
A system to create, schedule and distribute crowdsourcing tasks
Contributions:229 commits, 18 PRs, 93 pushes in 1 year 1 month
distributepythoncrowdsourcingschedule
Archer6621/hswfc-editor-dev
Mar 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:35 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
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