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Nayab Hossain

Computer Engineering @ San José State University


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Experience

2026

Co-Founder

Polaris

San Jose, CA

accelerated by

Plug and Play Tech Center

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.
Jan 2026 - Present · 5 mos

Officer Lead

AI & Machine Learning Club SJSU

San Jose, California, United States

AI & Machine Learning Club SJSU logo

Leading core club operations across infrastructure, frontend coordination, and event execution for the AI & ML community at SJSU.

  • Manage Supabase and database infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with the UI team on frontend development.
  • Plan and organize club events.
Apr 2024 - Aug 2024

Software Developer

Penta Global

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Penta Global logo

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.

SoftwarePayment Systems

Autonomous Payment Router

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

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

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

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

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
SoftwareDigital Records

Personal Digital Document Hub for More Secured and Organized Sharing

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
SoftwareModel Adaptation

LLaMA 3 Fine-Tuning

Customized datasets, targeted training, and benchmarking for more relevant code output.

LLaMA 3 Fine-Tuning

Fine-tuned LLaMA 3 on a personalized dataset of personal notes and textbook excerpts to improve code-generation relevance, efficiency, and task-specific performance.

LLaMA 3
Fine-Tuning
JSON Data Prep
Code Generation
Model Evaluation
SoftwareDeveloper Utilities

Resume Analyzer

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

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
Reddit
Twitter
Issue Briefs
User Feedback
Code
SoftwareMobile Games

Square Leap

Lead developer for a mobile game released on both major app stores.

Square Leap

Served as lead developer on a Buildbox game and shipped it to both the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store.

Buildbox
Mobile Game
Lead Developer
Google Play Store
App Store
SoftwareDocument Intelligence

Enterprise Document Intelligence System with RAG

Enterprise search stack with hybrid retrieval, secure backend services, and cloud deployment.

Enterprise Document Intelligence System with RAG

Built a production-grade RAG platform for fast, accurate, context-aware search across enterprise documents by combining scalable ingestion, hybrid retrieval, fine-tuned LLaMA 3 responses, and secure APIs.

RAG
Milvus + Redis
BM25 + FAISS
FastAPI
LLaMA 3
AWS + Kubernetes
SoftwareAI Workspace

Parallel

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

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

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

San Jose State University logo

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

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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

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.

Location

San Jose, California

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