Hey, I'm
Abeer.
SYDE @ Waterloo · Product Engineering at two VC-backed startups.
Software Cases
Deep dives into the software work I'm most proud of, written for product engineers and recruiters who want to understand the impact.
Software Projects
I've worked on a variety of projects, from small websites to large-scale web applications. Here are some of my favorites:
Sibyl
Multi-agent LangGraph pipeline routing evidence gaps with a RAG stack over climate compliance reports, paired with a real-time SSE dashboard and a grounded RAG chatbot.
Rosetta
Real-time lecture translation and transcription platform that injects RAG citations from student-uploaded notes and PDFs as professors speak.
Go-Phish
Browser extension that flags phishing emails with 96% accuracy via a scikit-learn classifier, gamified with a gacha-style fish-collection reward and team leaderboards to make email security engaging.
ScoutFox
Chrome extension (261 installs) that surfaces YouTube review videos directly on Amazon listings, using serverless APIs and LLM-driven query normalization.
Estia
Publicly hosted platform with 100+ coding projects, AI-powered project generation, RAG retrieval, and user profiles (auth, comments, etc.)
Statsanity
Full-stack application with login database to predict NBA games and MVP with linear regression AI model
OnePass
Password Manager CRUD app featuring strong password generation, a password checker, and a password storage system
StockAI
Built an LSTM AI model to predict next-day stock prices using candlestick data on varying training configs to explore optimization
Dungeon Map Generator
Won WEC 2024 building a dynamic tile-based map generator with pathfinding using Dijkstra's algorithm
Movie Land
Search tool for finding movies and TV shows, offering concise descriptions and release dates for each title
UX Design Cases
All my designs prioritize user experience, ensuring that every aspect is well-crafted to enhance usability, accessibility, and overall enjoyment.
DesignathonLow/High Fidelity PrototypesUser ResearchIterative Designing
Reesponsive DesignNon-Profit OrganizationUser Research
Work Experience
Experience is the greatest teacher, and I've embraced diverse opportunities to learn and grow.
Software Engineer Intern
Spellbook (Khosla Ventures)
- Solo-shipped a legal workflow agent builder using Vercel AI SDK, leading to closure of a $100k+ enterprise contract.
- Slashed AI agent failures by ~50% by replacing unpredictable tool calls with configurable, structured execution steps.
- Conceived Personalization Settings and shipped Company Profiles, anchoring startup's push into in-house legal teams.
- Instrumented 35 Datadog UX/error analytic events across all features, catching 3 critical drop-offs before reaching users.
Software Developer
Industry 4.0
- Drove 350+ case competition signups by leading a website rebuild with a team of 20+ executives, owning the project from design through release.
- Ran agile delivery end-to-end, coordinating scope and timeline across cross-functional teams while keeping a high product quality bar.
Software Engineer Intern
BorderPass
- Propelled a 35% increase in paying customers by redesigning the Visitor Visa flow in React/TypeScript, eliminating manual entry by parsing uploaded documents to validate against the latest scraped IRCC requirements.
- Automated document generation, scaling to 105k+ PDFs processed via a serverless AWS Lambda pipeline with S3 triggers.
- Drove 12+ university partnerships by building an AWS Redshift data warehouse with a real-time finances pipeline.
- Owned weekly zero-downtime prod releases, managing the full CI/CD pipeline across AWS backend services and Vercel.
Software Engineering Lead
UW Blueprint
- Led a cross-functional team of 12 to build a full-stack financial literacy platform for disabled children for a nonprofit (Extend-a-Family).
- Engineered a React/TypeScript PDF viewer and bookmarking dashboard using component memoization and lazy loading.
- Architected a JWT auth system using Express, MongoDB, and Firebase, implementing role-based access and token refresh.
Software Engineer Intern
University of Toronto
- Migrated a monolithic student records API into Node.js microservices, improving modularity using the sidecar pattern.
- Delivered data access for 60,000+ students by integrating OIDC and OAuth 2.0 for authorization over financial records.
UX Research Intern
Questrade
- Conducted 6 UX research studies across Questrade's investment platform, uncovering insights that boosted customer satisfaction by up to 40%.
Web Developer
Bangladesh Canada Cultural Society
- Led a complete website redesign covering 29 new pages, taking the org from an outdated brochure site to a modern donor-facing presence.
- Drove a 35% increase in donations through the redesign by improving navigation, accessibility, and trust signals across the site.
- Shipped an email marketing system that captured 2,500+ subscribers in the first month, enabling targeted community communications.