FaijalShaikh.

Faijal Shaikh

I'm aSoftware Engineer

Building performant, considered software — from production web apps to AI systems and fuzz-tested internals. Craft, taste, and shipped are the point.

LocationIndia
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NowBuilding AI + full-stack
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01About

An engineer who cares about the details.

“I build across the stack — product, AI, and infra — with a bias for craft, taste, and shipped work.”

Started in CS wanting to build things people would actually use. Fell for the parts of the stack most engineers ignore — schemas, latency budgets, and the tiny details that make software feel good.

Final-year Computer Engineering student turning internships, competitions, and independent projects into shipped, production-grade software across full-stack and AI.

Doing the highest-craft work of my life with teams that care about the same things.

3Internships completed
40+Projects delivered
1.2kOSS stars earned
1:3Coffee-to-commit ratio
02Toolbox

The tools I reach for.

A working set, not a wishlist. Grouped by where they live in the stack, tagged by how deep I go.

Languages

Daily-driver languages I ship production code in.

  • C++core
  • TypeScriptdaily
  • JavaScriptdaily
  • Pythondaily
  • SQLdaily
  • Javaworking

Frontend

Interfaces that feel fast, calm, and considered.

  • Reactcore
  • Next.jscore
  • Tailwind CSScore
  • Framer Motiondaily
  • shadcn/uicore

Backend

Reliable services that scale under load.

  • Node.jscore
  • Express.jsdaily
  • REST APIsdaily
  • FastAPIdaily
  • GraphQLdaily
  • gRPCworking

Database

Schemas that stay honest as products evolve.

  • MongoDBdaily
  • MySQLdaily
  • PostgreSQLworking
  • Redisworking
  • Prismaworking

Cloud

Infra that stays boring so products can be interesting.

  • AWSdaily
  • Vercelcore
  • Cloudflaredaily
  • GCPworking

DevOps

Pipelines, observability, and safe rollouts.

  • Dockerdaily
  • GitHub Actionsdaily
  • Terraformworking
  • Kubernetesworking

AI/ML

LLM apps, retrieval, and evals — not vibes.

  • PyTorchdaily
  • LangChaindaily
  • LlamaIndexdaily
  • RAGdaily
  • NLPworking
  • HuggingFaceworking
  • OpenAI / Anthropic APIscore
  • Vector DBs (pgvector, Pinecone)daily

Tools

The everyday craft.

  • Gitcore
  • GitHubcore
  • Postmandaily
  • VS Codecore
  • Figmadaily
  • Lineardaily
  • Vitest / Jestdaily
  • Playwrightdaily

Core Concepts

The fundamentals everything else stands on.

  • Operating Systemscore
  • Computer Networkscore
  • Data Structures & Algorithmsdaily
  • OOPdaily
  • DBMSdaily
coredailyworking
03Selected work

A few things I've built end-to-end.

Orbit
2026
01Full-Stack

Orbit

An AI-powered commitment engine.

Full-stack AI app that turns a stray sentence into a tracked commitment — deadline, priority, and automated reminders, extracted automatically.

Next.js 16NestJSPostgreSQL (Neon)Redis (Upstash)Google GeminiPrisma+2
Case studyOpen →
ShelfSync
2026
02Full-Stack

ShelfSync

Inventory & POS for small retail, built solo.

Full-stack SaaS for small shops — append-only stock ledger, barcode POS, margin-aware analytics.

NestJSPrismaPostgreSQLRedisReact 19TanStack Query+2
Case studyOpen →
Settlr
2026
03Full-Stack

Settlr

Smart group finance manager — the smallest way to settle up.

React Native + Spring Boot app that computes the minimum-transaction settlement plan for any group's shared expenses.

React NativeTypeScriptSpring BootJava 21PostgreSQLSpring Security+2
Case studyOpen →
Grace Academy School
2026
04Full-Stack

Grace Academy School

My own school's website — built out of gratitude.

Full-featured, responsive school website with an integrated admin CMS — developed and deployed for a real-world client, built with Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS.

Next.js 16TypeScriptTailwind CSSReact 19Lucide React
Case studyOpen →
vaultpak
2026
05Open Source

vaultpak

A C99 archive format that fuzzes cleanly.

Custom archive format written in portable C99 with a ClusterFuzzLite harness.

C99CMakelibFuzzerASANUBSAN
Case studyOpen →
Storeward
2026
06Full-Stack

Storeward

Retail ops backend with sane defaults.

PythonFastAPIPostgresSQLAlchemy+1
Project
2026
07AI

Project Seal

Trivia prompts LLMs actually have to think about.

PythonPydanticOpenAI Evals
04Timeline

The work behind the work.

  1. Jun 2026

    → Jul 2026

    Pune, India

    Product QA Intern

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    FinIQ Consulting India Pvt. Ltd

    Validated REST APIs for a fintech platform, closing the gap between documented behavior and what the system actually returned.

    • Validated REST APIs and identified discrepancies between API documentation and actual responses
    • Executed API testing to ensure functionality, response accuracy, and data integrity
    • Collaborated on authentication improvements and API validation workflows
    • Gained exposure to fintech systems and quantitative finance concepts
    REST APIsPostmanFintech Systems
  2. Nov 2025

    → Present

    Remote

    AI Data Trainer

    ·

    Scaler AI Labs

    Creating supervised datasets for LLMs and evaluating model responses for factual accuracy and reasoning quality.

    • Created high-quality supervised datasets for LLMs by following detailed annotation guidelines
    • Evaluated AI model responses for factual accuracy, reasoning quality, and instruction adherence across multiple training projects
    • Performed quality audits and self-validation to ensure consistency and compliance with project standards
    LLM EvaluationData AnnotationPrompt Review
  3. Jan 2025

    → Feb 2025

    Remote

    AI Intern

    ·

    Edunet Foundation

    Built an AI-powered healthcare chatbot using NLP to assist patients with symptom analysis and basic recommendations.

    • Developed an AI-powered chatbot using NLP to assist patients in symptom analysis and offer basic medical recommendations
    • Implemented machine learning models to identify patterns in health data, improving predictive diagnostics
    • Gained hands-on experience with NLP tools and frameworks to enhance patient support systems
    PythonNLPMachine Learning
05Signals

Achievements & credentials.

Hackathon

Top 5 — AI & Innovation Sprint

Phoenix Club, KKWIEER · 2025

Competition

2nd Rank — DSA Tech Trek

KKWIEER (College-Level Competition) · 2025

Hackathon

Regional Hackathon — 1st place

Local Devfest · 2024

Certification

AWS Certified — Solutions Architect Associate

Amazon Web Services · 2024

Certification

Deep Learning Specialization

DeepLearning.AI · 2023

Certification

Operating System Fundamentals

NPTEL (Elite Certification) · 2024

Hackathon

Top 5 — AI & Innovation Sprint

Phoenix Club, KKWIEER · 2025

Competition

2nd Rank — DSA Tech Trek

KKWIEER (College-Level Competition) · 2025

Hackathon

Regional Hackathon — 1st place

Local Devfest · 2024

Certification

AWS Certified — Solutions Architect Associate

Amazon Web Services · 2024

Certification

Deep Learning Specialization

DeepLearning.AI · 2023

Certification

Operating System Fundamentals

NPTEL (Elite Certification) · 2024

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06Writing

Learning notes out in the open.

Things I'm figuring out, written down as I go. Click a post for a short take.

More notes as I learn them

07Contact

Let's build something great.

Have a role, a product, or an idea to bounce around? Send an email — I read every one and typically reply within 24 hours on weekdays.