Shahir Ahmed Shahir-47

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About me

Hi, I'm Shahir Ahmed, a software engineer in New York working on my Master's in Computer Science at NYU.

Before NYU, I worked at Sarva, an inventory management startup.

Most of what I build is full-stack, usually a Next.js or React frontend talking to a Spring Boot or FastAPI backend. My newer projects run on a home server I set up on an old gaming laptop.

I also contribute to Mermaid.js, where I'm ranked 25th out of 600+ contributors.

Projects

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GrabPic

Guests take a selfie after an event and get only the photos they're in, so nobody has to dig through the whole album.

PaperPulse

Every morning it finds the 25 new research papers that matter most to you, and you can ask it questions about any of them.

Home Server

An old gaming laptop that hosts my apps for about $1 a month instead of $100 on AWS.

Queue Up

Matches you with people who listen to the same music, based on your Spotify history, and lets you chat when it's mutual.

CoSign

A to-do app where someone you pick has to sign off on your work. Miss the deadline and they get the penalty you wrote.

PandOS

An operating system kernel I wrote in C. It runs up to 20 processes at once and gives each one its own virtual memory.

BitTorrent Client

Downloads files from .torrent files and magnet links by connecting straight to other peers. I wrote the protocol from scratch in Node.js.

Hackathons

Albatross

Built at HackHarvard 2024

A walking route planner that keeps you out of crime hot zones in Boston. I built the Vue.js frontend that draws the map.

SweetFriend

Built at PennApps 2024

Estimates the carbs in a meal from a photo and shows it next to live glucose readings. We built it for a teammate with type 1 diabetes.

Open Source

Mermaid.js

The tool GitHub and Microsoft use to turn text into diagrams. What I've added:

Title color, font, and size options for journey diagrams
Word wrapping so long legend labels stop running into the diagram
Data labels that fit inside the bars of XY charts

My open source portfolio has every project I've contributed to, with a link to each merged pull request.

Where I've worked

	Sarva Software engineer Built a voice assistant that lets store owners update their inventory by talking in their own language Set up the CI pipelines that test every API before it ships
	FarmData2 Software engineer intern Open source record keeping for vegetable farms, where I built the APIs that log crops automatically Ended up as the project's 2nd top contributor
	Dickinson College Teaching assistant Ran weekly Python and Java code reviews and office hours for six semesters
	84 Lumber Volunteer software engineer Wrote a translator that turns the company's old CBASIC code into Python and Java Featured in Dickinson News