Waqar Ahmed Khan

Waqar Ahmed Khan

Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Experience

Education

  • Punjab University College of Information Technology

    3.88

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Licenses & Certifications

Projects

  • Compilers & Interpreters

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    – Working on writing a tree-based interpreter for monkey language in Rust inspired by Thorsten Ball’s “Writing an interpreter in Go” book.
    – Fixed a bug in the Android Jetpack Compose compiler.

    See project
  • AWS Serveless Todo Web Application

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    Developed a serverless to do list application in Node.js as part of Cloud Developer course by Udacity. It has a microservice architecture approach by having separate services to create, remove, or update todos and a frontend in React which interacts with that. Also experimented with Alexa skills to add, remove, or update todos using Alexa.

    See project
  • CS Opportunity Portal at Google CodeU Program

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    -Collaborated with a team of 5 people, 4 students, and a Google engineer as a mentor to design and implement a web application which curates CS opportunities for Pakistani students. It uses Java, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS over 10 weeks, leveraging various Google Cloud Platform APIs, including App Engine, Maps, and Datastore.
    -Initiated the idea of the APP and collaboratively ideated and validated user needs while maintaining project documentation.
    -Worked mostly on the backend design…

    -Collaborated with a team of 5 people, 4 students, and a Google engineer as a mentor to design and implement a web application which curates CS opportunities for Pakistani students. It uses Java, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS over 10 weeks, leveraging various Google Cloud Platform APIs, including App Engine, Maps, and Datastore.
    -Initiated the idea of the APP and collaboratively ideated and validated user needs while maintaining project documentation.
    -Worked mostly on the backend design, database design and implementation.
    -Practiced industry best practices such as: contributing to open source software using GitHub, conducting code reviews with/for teammates, extending an existing codebase, participating in distributed development, designing new components and interfaces and leading them to completion.

    See project
  • Movie Recommender System

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    Build a movie recommender system using Collaborative filtering in Matlab as part of Andrew-ng's machine learning course.

    See project
  • Login Page Customizer

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    A Wordpress plugin that lets you design professional login page design with few steps without any coding.

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  • Digit Classifier Neural Network

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    Build a single hand digit classifier neural network using MNIST Dataset as part of Andrew-ng's machine learning course in Matlab.

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  • Lexical Analzyer

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    I created a specification independent lexical analyzer in c++. It reads specification FA & input from file and generates lexemes accoridngly.

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  • Facebook Feed Plugin

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    A Wordpress plugin that displays Facebook feed into your website given Facebook page name. It had a lot customization options and built in themes, to modify feed according to your needs. I developed it from scratch by utilizing open source social feed Javascript library.

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  • Abel App

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    WheresAbel Camera App allows you to take or select photos with your friends, and create Abel cameos using a wide variety of poses. You can easily share your unique photos in your favorite chat apps, social media sites, or save them directly to your device
    I developed an android version of the Abel App as a freelancer. I developed complete app from scratch, utilizing open source libraries such as PicCrop and Android built in libraries for camera & save functionalities.

  • Al Asr Quran App

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    An Android application that lets you read Quran wherever whenever you want on your mobile device.

    See project

Honors & Awards

  • Winner at CodingGuru 2.0 at LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan

    Lahore University of Management Sciences

    Won Speed Programming competition out of 80+ teams.

  • 7th position in Credit-Suisse online global coding challenge

    www.credit-suisse.com

    Got 7th position in Credit-Suisse online global coding challenge in the USA region out of 650+ participants.

  • Winner at Namal TechnoFest Speed Programming Competition

    Namal University Mianwali, Pakistan

    We won speed programming competition organized at Namal, Pakistan out of 15+ teams.

  • Winner at Namal TechnoFest Zumo Robot Competition

    Namal University Mianwali, Pakistan

    We won zumo robot competition organized at Namal, Pakistan out of 15 teams.

  • Winner at CodinGuru Programming Competition

    Lahore University of Management Sciences

    Got 1st Position in CodinGuru Speed Programming Competition where more then 50 teams participated, organized in LUMS, Pakistan.

  • Nascon Programming Competition Winner

    Nuces Islamabad, Pakistan

    Won Speed Programming competition out of 30+ teams.

  • Kath Programming Competition Winner

    University of Gujrat, Pakistan

  • Speed Programming Competition 2018 in UET Lahore winner

    UET Lahore, Pakistan

  • ACM International Collegiate Programming Regional Contest (ICPC) Runner up

    ACM University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan

    Runner Up ACM-ICPC Asia-Lahore regional 2017 out of 80+ teams

  • Visio Sparko Programming Competition Winner

    Comsat Wah Cant, Pakistan

    Won Speed Programming competition out of 50+ teams.

  • Sports Week Programming Competition

    Comsat Lahore, Pakistan

  • GeekWeek Speed Programming Competition Winner

    Fast Lahore, Pakistan

Languages

  • English

    Full professional proficiency

  • Punjabi

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Urdu

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Siraki

    Native or bilingual proficiency

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