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About Me

Hi, I'm Said, a software engineer and recent Computer Science graduate from Belmont University. I build and ship full stack and AI products end to end.

I shipped Rizmi, a native iPad app live on the App Store with about 2,000 downloads, built ClassroomAI, a deployed Claude powered tutor for professors and students, and founded ScholarUz, a nonprofit platform that has tracked over $50,000 in student funding. Along the way I worked as a systems administrator intern at Health Connect America and coauthored a research paper presented at IEEE/ACM MSR 2025.

I am currently looking for software engineering roles in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Experience

Tez Group

Nashville, TN

May 2025 to May 2026

Software Engineer

May 2025 to May 2026

  • Maintained the in house CRM used by dispatch and brokerage staff running about 120 trucks, fixing crash bugs, managing user privileges, and extending financial statistics views.
  • Built a load tracking screen with a live map and a report table showing departure and delivery times, destination, and the purchase price of each load.
  • Wrote a Python script that read booked deals from Outlook email and recorded the bookings, billing, and financial entries in the company dashboard, and designed spreadsheets and databases for load and financial reporting.
PythonJavaScriptExcel

Jun 2024 to Nov 2025

Systems Administrator Intern

Jun 2024 to Nov 2025

  • Saved 25+ staff hours per week across 50+ offices by automating AWS EC2 management with Python and Boto3.
  • Cut release cycle time from 8 hours to 4 hours by improving the Jenkins CI/CD pipeline used for internal releases.
  • Administered user accounts, permissions, and Azure access for thousands of staff, scripting privilege changes and security audits in Bash, and provisioned laptops for onboarding and offboarding.
  • Supported VPN, Wi-Fi, and network connectivity across offices, kept systems patched and monitored, updated pages on the company website, and documented IT processes in runbooks.
PythonBoto3AWSAzureBashJenkins

Belmont University

Nashville, TN

Aug 2024 to Apr 2025

AI Research Assistant

Aug 2024 to Apr 2025

  • Analyzed failure cascade propagation across the Maven Central ecosystem using the Goblin framework Neo4j dependency graph (15M+ nodes, 134M+ edges) and Cypher queries to quantify how library failures ripple through the network.
  • Coauthored a peer reviewed empirical study presented at IEEE/ACM MSR 2025 (Mining Software Repositories) in Ottawa, Canada.
Neo4jCypherPython

Jul 2022 to Jan 2023

DevOps Engineer Diploma Program (Training)

Jul 2022 to Jan 2023

  • Earned the DevOps Engineer diploma from a 350 clock hour, project based evening program completed alongside university coursework, finishing with a capstone that built a complete environment for a fictitious startup.
  • Containerized applications with Docker, deployed them on Kubernetes, built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, and provisioned AWS infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible.
  • Administered Linux systems end to end, scripting in Bash and Python, with package and user management, scheduling, logging, DNS, web servers, firewalls, and monitoring.
DockerKubernetesJenkinsGitHub ActionsTerraformAnsibleLinuxBashPython
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Projects

Rizmi

Native SwiftUI iPad app live on the Apple App Store with about 2,000 downloads. It turns Apple Pencil handwriting into solved math with step by step explanations through a pipeline of handwriting recognition, an LLM, and a math solver, backed by a serverless FastAPI service.

SwiftUIiOSFastAPILLMOCR
View on the App Store →

ClassroomAI

Full stack AI tutor where professors upload course materials and students chat with a Claude tutor grounded only in those materials. Every message is persisted, and professors get a dashboard for creating and managing their classes.

Next.jsSupabaseVercelClaude API
Visit ClassroomAI →

Tez Extractor

LLM document extraction pipeline that turns trucking rate confirmations from 9 broker formats into structured load records, handling text PDFs, scans, and photos. Scored 100% field accuracy on clean PDFs against a hand labeled eval, with per field confidence, deterministic validation, and a human review dashboard.

Next.jsTypeScriptClaude APIPostgreSQLEvals
View on GitHub →

ScholarUz

Nonprofit platform connecting donors with students who lack access to educational funding. It has tracked over $50,000 in contributions across donor, student, and disbursement workflows.

Next.jsPrismaPostgreSQLStripe
Visit ScholarUz →
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Hackathons

1st Place - ML Music Copy Rights Hackathon

3rd Place - Snowflake Hackathon

3rd Place - TNHIMMS Hackathon

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Research

Coauthored research presented at IEEE/ACM MSR 2025

An empirical study of failure cascade propagation across the Maven Central ecosystem, analyzing a 15M node, 134M edge dependency graph. Presented at the Mining Software Repositories conference in Ottawa, Canada.