Samin Qureshi

Research Assistant · Toronto, Ontario

• Sole backend developer on a cloud-based energy-management platform built under an industry partnership. I design and ship Node.js, Express and PostgreSQL services, plus ETL pipelines that ingest sensor data on a one-minute cycle.
• Integrate custom hardware with backend software as the software counterpart to the hardware research team, and build image-processing and OCR document-extraction pipelines processing 50+ documents daily.
• Own the platform's DevOps infrastructure, deploying and maintaining backend, frontend, database and supporting services on Docker, Docker Compose, Debian Linux, GitHub Actions, Caddy and DigitalOcean, with OAuth 2.0 authentication on the client-facing web portal.
• Cut API response times 50%, from 60s to 30s, by profiling database access patterns and shared backend modules across multi-tenant infrastructure.
• Built the platform's automated testing infrastructure from zero to 100+ unit, integration and end-to-end tests spanning algorithms and hardware/software integration, preventing regressions through CI/CD.

Student Help Desk · Toronto, Ontario

• Resolved technical issues for 150+ students weekly across walk-in, phone and email while completing full-time studies, escalating complex cases to specialized IT teams and tracking every case in Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM.

Backend Developer · Toronto, Ontario

• Architected scalable backend infrastructure in Node.js and MongoDB to support platform growth.
• Optimized Express endpoints for a 20% increase in content-submission throughput, and refactored legacy delivery modules for high-concurrency traffic.

Hardware & Software Analyst Intern · Toronto, Ontario

• Developed in-house inventory and records-management software to institutional spec, cutting data-entry errors by 15%, while deploying and decommissioning 150+ enterprise devices with zero security incidents.

Data Quality Analyst · Toronto, Ontario

• Audited employee, financial and customer records with SQL and Excel, and standardized CRM formats to cut duplicate entries by 20%.

Chess engine · C++20, multithreading, CMake

• A UCI-compliant engine in C++20 that plays at 1800+ Lichess Elo through optimized search and evaluation.
• Uses bitboard representation and Zobrist hashing with a transposition table, and accelerates search with alpha-beta pruning, iterative deepening and move ordering.
• The codebase is private under my chess programming club's rules. The Elo and match history are public.

Mental-health tracker · Swift, SwiftUI, SwiftData, Combine

• A privacy-focused mental-health tracker shipped to the App Store, built with SwiftUI and SwiftData.
• Combine drives habit tracking, scheduling and notifications. Journals and streaks stay on the device.

Bachelor of Computing, Degree Completion Pathway · Guelph, Ontario

Advanced Diploma, Computer Programming and Analysis · Toronto, Ontario