Nayab Hossain

Computer Engineering @ SJSU

Founder @ Polaris

Accelerated by Plug and Play Tech Center

Computer Engineering @ SJSU

Founder at Polaris

Welcome to my Portfolio!

Finding ways to implement AI in every corner of daily life to let people think more rather than iterate more.

Check out my projects to know more about my work and my thinking strategies.

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Experience

2026

Co-Founder

Polaris

San Jose, CA

Accelerated by

Building developer infrastructure for hardware teams that need to catch integration risk before it reaches the main branch.

Built a real-time conflict detection engine for FPGA and firmware teams using deterministic git merge-tree analysis plus semantic detectors across VHDL, Verilog, TypeScript, and C.
Shipped cross-file blast radius analysis that surfaces semantically risky package and port definition changes in under 5 seconds before any push.
Ran 50+ customer discovery interviews with FPGA engineers across CERN, national labs, and semiconductor companies.

Apr 2024 - Aug 2024

Software Developer

Penta Global

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Worked on model deployment and data validation workflows to make internal ML systems more reproducible, faster to train, and easier to trust.

Containerized LLaMA-3 and Mistral models with Docker for reproducible environments.
Built Pandera-based validation pipelines to enforce schemas and cut runtime data issues before training.
Used Unsloth to speed up fine-tuning and reduce training cost by more than 40 percent.
Automated internal analytics reports with Python and Matplotlib, improving turnaround time by 3x.

My Projects

A mix of current startup work, AI systems, and hardware prototypes built under practical engineering constraints.

SoftwarePayment Systems

Autonomous Payment Router

Built around practical engineering and product constraints.

Autonomous Payment Router

Classifies incoming prompts, fetches real-time quotes from LLM providers, selects the lowest-cost option that still meets latency and quality policies, and settles usage with gasless USDC payments on Arc L1.

LLM Providers

Prompt Routing

Arc L1

USDC

Policy Engine

Code

SoftwareQuant Research

Darwin Research Lab for Trading

Built around practical engineering and product constraints.

Darwin Research Lab for Trading

Built a graph-based deterministic equity strategy lab designed to shorten the path from trading idea to validated strategy, reduce overfitting risk, and keep experimentation cheap by testing multiple strategy variations side by side.

Trading Strategy

Graph Models

Backtesting

Quant Research

SoftwarePrediction Markets

Fake Trading Prediction Minimizer

Built around practical engineering and product constraints.

Fake Trading Prediction Minimizer

Built a mini app published on Alien.org where verified humans create crypto price predictions, stake WLD or USDC through MiniKit Pay, and build immutable reputation tied to World ID to make fake prediction spam significantly harder to game.

Alien.org

World ID

MiniKit Pay

WLD/USDC

Prediction Markets

Code

HardwareEdge Vision

Object Detection Camera

Built around practical engineering and product constraints.

Object Detection Camera

Developed a real-time object detection system using a Raspberry Pi and camera module, applying computer vision to identify and track objects efficiently for AI-powered edge applications.

Raspberry Pi Zero

Camera Module

Computer Vision

Edge AI

HardwareEmbodied AI

Reachy Study Monitoring Robot

Built around practical engineering and product constraints.

Reachy Study Monitoring Robot

Built a hackathon prototype using Reachy and edge AI to monitor study sessions in real time. The system detects distraction patterns such as phone usage or losing focus, tracks active study time, and reports session insights through a dashboard.

Reachy

Jetson Orin Nano

Computer Vision

Embodied AI

Focus Tracking

Study Dashboard

Code

HardwareROBOTICS / DNS SECURITY

Parental Control Robot

Built at a hackathon around embedded systems, networking, and parental controls.

Parental Control Robot

Built a robot-based parental control system at a Seeed Studio hackathon that enforced internet restrictions through a DNS-layer filtering setup. The project was designed to help parents manage screen time, block distracting or unsafe sites, and create a more interactive physical interface for digital safety. It combined robotics, networking, and system design into a working hackathon prototype.

Robotics

DNS Filtering

Parental Control

Embedded Systems

Network Security

Hackathon

Code YouTube

SoftwareDigital Records

Personal Digital Document Hub for More Secured and Organized Sharing

Built around practical engineering and product constraints.

Personal Digital Document Hub for More Secured and Organized Sharing

Civic is a personal digital records hub that keeps life documents secure, categorized, and ready to share. It sends expiration reminders, offers one-tap Panic Mode for emergencies, and supports revocable, audited sharing links for trust-sensitive workflows.

Document Security

Sharing Links

Reminders

Access Control

Trust Workflows

HardwareVoice Interfaces

Raspberry Pi Voice Assistant

Built around practical engineering and product constraints.

Raspberry Pi Voice Assistant

Built a lightweight, voice-interactive chatbot using a Raspberry Pi and the TinyLLaMA model. Integrated voice input, text-to-speech, and local model optimization for smoother on-device performance.

Raspberry Pi 4B

TinyLLaMA

Voice Input

Text-to-Speech

Local AI

SoftwareDeveloper Utilities

Resume Analyzer

Built around practical engineering and product constraints.

Resume Analyzer

Python CLI that ingests PDF, TXT, and DOCX resumes and extracts key information. Combines regex-based contact detection, degree spotting, and skill matching against a configurable keyword list.

Python

CLI

PDF/DOCX/TXT

Regex

NLP Heuristics

Code

SoftwareFeedback Intelligence

Social Media Ingester for User Feedback

Built around practical engineering and product constraints.

Social Media Ingester for User Feedback

Turns Reddit and Twitter threads into shippable engineering work. Uses Gemini to detect recurring praise and complaints, cluster themes, and draft issue briefs with acceptance criteria so teams can act on real user feedback faster.

Gemini

Twitter

Issue Briefs

User Feedback

Code

SoftwareAI Workspace

Parallel

Built around practical engineering and product constraints.

Parallel

Enterprise-ready AI workspace that unifies team knowledge, conversations, and action tracking so organizations can execute faster with fewer tool silos.

PostgreSQL

pgvector

SSE

VS Code Extension

Enterprise AI

SoftwareAgentic Ops

NanoBrief

Built around practical engineering and product constraints.

NanoBrief

Agentic content pack generator that turns messy notes, changelogs, and requests into a publish-ready update, announcement, and FAQ set.

Gemini Nano Banana

On-device Planning

Safety Filtering

Evaluation

SoftwareFeedback to Shipping

Volta

Built around practical engineering and product constraints.

Volta

Feedback-to-ticket bridge that turns high-signal X replies into GitHub issues, implementation plans, and shipped fixes.

X Webhooks

GitHub

Grok 4

Quality Gates

Automation

Code

Education

2025 - Present

San Jose State University

San Jose, CA

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering

Building a strong technical base across mathematics, programming, and data structures while continuing to apply those fundamentals to product engineering, startup execution, and developer tooling.

Relevant Coursework

Calculus I and IIDiscrete MathematicsAdvanced Programming in Java and PythonData Structures

2009 - 2025

Scholastica Uttara

Dhaka, BD

Primary and Secondary Education

Received a comprehensive academic background that prepared me for higher studies in technology and computer engineering, fostering critical thinking, problem-solving, and lifelong learning.

Core Outcomes

Academic rigorCritical thinkingProblem-solvingLifelong learning

Skills

Skills and expertise from the updated resume

This section now mirrors the newer resume rather than the older placeholder categories.

Programming

PythonJavaTypeScriptJavaScriptSQLBash

Backend and Systems

FastAPIREST APIsPostgreSQLSQLitepgvectorSSEOAuth 2.0Schema Validation

AI and ML

LLaMAMistralGeminiAgentic SystemsRAGSemantic SearchUnslothModel Evaluation

Tooling and Platforms

DockerGitGitHubVS Code Extension APICursorTraeClaude CodeCodexLinux

Hardware and Edge

Raspberry PiCamera ModulesReal-time InferenceResource-constrained Systems

Testing and Quality

PanderaMatplotlibAPI Contract ValidationLintingDeterministic BuildsData Validation Pipelines

Contact

Get in touch

Open to conversations about developer tools, backend systems, AI products, internships, and startup collaboration.

Nayab Hossain

Computer Engineering Student and Builder

Based in San Jose, California and currently building systems across developer infrastructure, AI workflows, and product-focused software.

Email

nayabibnhossain@gmail.com

linkedin.com/in/nayabhossain

GitHub

github.com/Nayab-23

Location

San Jose, California

Resume

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Nayab Hossain

Computer Engineering @ SJSU

Experience

Co-Founder

Software Developer

My Projects

Education

San Jose State University

Scholastica Uttara

Skills and expertise from the updated resume

Programming

Backend and Systems

AI and ML

Tooling and Platforms

Hardware and Edge

Testing and Quality

Get in touch

Computer Engineering Student and Builder

Email

LinkedIn

GitHub

Location

Resume