Zainab Saad
Teaching Assistant at University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolZainab Saad is a software engineer and graduate student at the University of Calgary with three years of hands-on experience across research labs and industry, including contributions to the Apache AGE open-source graph database. She combines embedded and backend engineering skills—having built performant APIs, AWS-integrated storage, and interoperability tooling for graph data—with research expertise in EEG/ECG signal processing and explainable AI for clinical diagnostics. As a teaching and graduate research assistant she bridges academia and product development, having led projects that produced clinically reviewed EEG reporting tools and carbon-aware federated learning prototypes. A quick learner and collaborative teammate, she thrives in diverse teams tackling complex systems and is comfortable moving models from research proof-of-concept to production-ready pipelines.
3 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Software Engineering at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering at University of Calgary
Github Skills (13)
graphdb10
graph10
real-time-data10
postgresql10
postgresql-extension10
graph-database10
analytics10
agensgraph10
data-processing9
database9
sql9
python5
federated-learning2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Zainab-Saad/age
Mar 2023 - Mar 2024
Graph database optimized for fast analysis and real-time data processing. It is provided as an extension to PostgreSQL.
Contributions:5 PRs, 128 pushes, 150 branches in 1 year
Zainab-Saad/friendlyfl-controller
Feb 2024 - Mar 2024
Controller component of the FriendlyFL framework
Contributions:1 PR, 134 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
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