Zahid Syed
Evanston, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolZahid Syed is a rising junior studying Computer Science at Northwestern with three years of hands-on experience building backend systems, ML tooling, and full-stack web applications. He accelerated an AI routing product at Aurelio AI—raising agent fitting accuracy from 68% to 95%—by implementing batch processing, refactoring models, and integrating FastAPI endpoints with GCP, PostgreSQL, and vector databases. Zahid has practical exposure to NLP and recommendation systems from research and fellowship work, including improving robustness of a programming-language tool and building ML-powered resume search and Twitter-like apps. Outside code, he blends technical interests with a curiosity for philosophy and finance, and has event leadership experience as treasurer of NC State’s largest in-person hackathon. He communicates technical concepts clearly to nontechnical stakeholders and seeks opportunities to apply scalable ML and backend engineering in product-focused teams.
3 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, GPA: 4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, GPA: 4.0 at North Carolina State UniversityIBDP, HL- Maths, Chemistry, Physics, SL- Economics,English, Spanish, IBDP, HL- Maths, Chemistry, Physics, SL- Economics,English, Spanish at Oakridge International SchoolBachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at Northwestern University
Urdu, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (7)
computer-vision10
artificial-intelligence10
nlp10
chatbot10
generative-ai9
ai9
machine-learning9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zahid-syed/Resume-Parser-headstarter
Jul 2023 - Jul 2023
Repository for Headstarter Software Fellowship July 2023 Cohort for the Resume Parser Project
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
zahid-syed/Bibliotherapy
Jul 2024 - Jul 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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