Aariz Iqbal

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// technical stack

Skills & Technologies

Languages
Kotlin (Android)C/C++PythonJavaScriptSwift (iOS)DartHTML/CSSTypeScriptSQL
Frameworks
ReactFlutterTailwind CSSNextJSFlaskSwiftUIFirebaseMVVMFastAPI
Developer Tools
GitVS CodeAndroid StudioXcodeDockerPostmanGitHubPyCharmVisual Studio
Libraries & APIs
NumPyMatplotlibpandasTensorFlowYOLOOpenAI APILangChainLangGraphWebSocketsPyTorchAWSGCloud

// professional journey

Experience

Hands-on engineering across firmware, AI/ML, full-stack, and mobile — each role shipping production-grade software.

2025

Software Development Intern

Intern
@SanDisk
  • Revamped React-based UI architecture with live FastAPI backend integrations, optimizing state management and async workflows for real-time data sync with PostgreSQL
  • Built staging tables in PostgreSQL, implemented vector-based semantic search, integrated a chatbot with persistent history, and shipped pagination, text ordering, and AI output formatting
  • Built a file-upload API that generates embeddings for diverse data types and a database API library supporting AI orchestration and dynamic data retrieval
ReactFastAPIPostgreSQLPythonVector SearchLLM/AI

2024

AI/ML Firmware Engineer Intern

Intern
@Western Digital
  • Trained an AI model to generate firmware code, boosting engineering efficiency by 30% and improving output accuracy end-to-end
  • Refactored and optimized firmware code in C, improving maintainability and reducing CPU cycles by 20%
  • Parsed error logs and conducted failure analysis using AI pattern recognition to diagnose and resolve production issues
  • Designed and implemented test cases to validate firmware improvements, ensuring seamless integration into production builds
C/C++PythonAI/MLFirmwareLLM

2024

ML Software Research Intern

Intern
@University of California, Davis
  • Enhanced an Android app in Kotlin with a plant-scanning feature powered by a ML model trained for 50 epochs, achieving 92% accuracy for tailored pesticide recommendations
  • Collaborated with UI/UX designers to improve the interface and shipped the app to production on the Google Play Store
  • Built a motion-control model for a hyperspectral camera in a greenhouse environment, implemented via Arduino for automation and precise positioning
KotlinAndroidMachine LearningComputer VisionArduino

2023

Full-Stack Software Engineer Intern

Intern
@Crypto Reporting LLC
  • Built APIs via AWS API Gateway for authenticating users to Centralized Exchanges and relaying crypto wallet data from a React/Amplify frontend to an AWS-hosted backend
  • Created serverless functions via AWS Lambda to authenticate users with Centralized Exchanges and integrate wallets into the tax algorithm
  • Updated the tax algorithm in Python with Pandas to process wallet data and persist results to AWS S3
ReactAWS LambdaPythonPandasAWS Amplify

Get In Touch

Feel free to reach out if you want to collaborate, have questions, or just want to connect!

Location

UC Davis, CA