Zahoorahmed Sayyad
Building intelligent systems that think beyond the obvious. I blend human insight, expressive aesthetics, and research-grade rigor to deliver products that feel alive.
- Intelligent builds
- 25+
- Research prototypes
- 12
- Hackathon wins
- 08
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Who I Am
CSE student, AI/ML enthusiast, and creative web developer
I live at the intersection of intelligence, aesthetics, and impact—crafting digital experiences that learn, listen, and evolve.
As an engineer, I obsess over clarity and correctness. As a designer, I crave emotion and delight. As a researcher, I chase questions that push beyond the obvious. This portfolio blends all three mindsets, and each project is a lab where ideas transform into living systems.
Systems Thinking
I architect scalable experiences with measurable impact, weaving experimentation into every build.
Creative Research
From surveys to prototypes, I treat design as research—merging intuition with evidence.
Global Readiness
Culturally aware storytelling and accessible interfaces ensure ideas travel beyond borders.
Creative Builder × Innovator Researcher
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Skill DNA
Engineering intuition backed by rigorous craft
A quick scan of the stacks, systems, and storytelling tools I use to ship resilient, inventive work.
Web Development
Crafting immersive, performant experiences
App Router expertise with edge rendering, server actions, and hybrid flows.
Strong typing for resilient frontends and backend contracts.
Rapid design systems with composable design tokens and accessible UI kits.
Framer Motion, GSAP-inspired flows, and custom easing for narrative UX.
AI & Machine Learning
Engineering intelligent systems that reason and adapt
Model experimentation with transformers, CNNs, and attention mechanisms.
Workflow automation with Weights & Biases, MLflow, and containerized inference.
Prompt engineering, fine-tuning LLMs, and evaluation pipelines for creative tasks.
Interpretable model design using SHAP, LIME, and counterfactual insights.
Competitive Programming
Algorithmic thinking refined through contests
Efficient implementations from segment trees to disjoint sets.
Shortest paths, flows, and heuristics for complex networks.
Pattern recognition and state optimization under constraints.
Breaking down ambiguous statements into solvable sub-problems.
Tools & Platforms
Operational excellence for experiments and delivery
GitHub Actions, Docker, and Vercel for automated testing and delivery.
Deploying to Vercel, Azure, and Cloudflare Workers with performance budgets.
Prisma, Supabase, MongoDB, and Postgres for data-backed experiences.
Figma-to-code pipelines, design tokens, and accessibility-first reviews.
Selected Work
Projects exploring intelligence, creativity, and human impact
Each build is a lab experiment—bridging engineering depth with design storytelling. Hover or tap to explore and dive deeper.
Research & Articles
Experiment logs, essays, and blueprints
These notes capture the thinking behind prototypes—bridging creative intuition with methodical investigation.
Architecting Trustworthy Co-Creative Agents
Explores interaction loops between human creators and LLM-based agents, introducing a reliability score that guides adaptive prompting.
Neural Materials for Emotionally Intelligent Interfaces
Presents a taxonomy of affective UI states coupled with reinforcement learning to modulate visuals based on sentiment inference.
Low-Latency Edge Inference for Campus Robotics
Quantifies the trade-offs between distillation strategies and on-device caching for autonomous ground vehicles navigating dense spaces.
Coming soon: publication draft and reproducibility notes.
Experience
Timelines of building, leading, and experimenting
I thrive when shipping bold ideas with teams. Here's a quick look at the roles and stories that shaped my craft.
- OPRA IT Solutions
Jun 2025 – Sep 2025
AI Engineering Intern
Prototyped intelligent ticket triage bots and observability dashboards for enterprise clients.
- Automated intent detection pipeline that lifted resolution accuracy by 28% in sandbox environments.
- Designed a real-time insights console with anomaly surfacing and guided interventions.
- CESA
2024 – Present
Technical Head
Mentored 40+ peers through innovation labs, hackathons, and research sprints.
- Launched the "Creative Builder" series to incubate interdisciplinary prototypes with measurable community impact.
- Curated knowledge base for algorithmic coaching, enabling faster contest upskilling.
- Coding Contest Guild
2023 – Present
Contest Architect
Designs high-signal coding challenges and analytics for campus-wide championships.
- Built telemetry stack that visualizes problem difficulty drift and coachability insights.
- Introduced fairness audits and live leaderboard anomaly detection for transparent play.
Credentials
Certifications and courses supporting my craft
A mix of global programs and NPTEL tracks that sharpened my AI, cloud, and systems thinking toolkit.
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
NPTEL: Deep Learning
IIT Madras
Google TensorFlow Developer
NPTEL: Soft Computing
IIT Kharagpur
Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals
Microsoft
Products & Services
Support the lab and unlock creative intelligence
Digital resources, mentorship, and research collaborations—powered by test-mode Razorpay and Stripe integrations for quick validation.
AI Research Playbook
Curated experiment workflows, prompt heuristics, and evaluation canvases for rapid prototyping.
Razorpay Test Checkout
INR 999
Portfolio Innovation Sprint
1:1 session to redesign your technical portfolio with strategic storytelling and metrics dashboards.
Stripe Test Checkout
USD 79
Research Pipeline Review
Async review of your AI/ML thesis or paper with annotated feedback, experiment ideas, and reproducibility checks.
Stripe Test Checkout
USD 59
Support
Fuel the experiments
If you vibe with the work, here's a quick way to sponsor a sprint, fund a prototype, or just say thanks.
Contact
Let's collaborate on the next intelligent build
Whether you have a project in mind, a research question, or want to host a workshop—let's start a conversation.
Connect directly
I'm most active on GitHub and LinkedIn. Email works too. Let's sync ideas and build momentum.
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