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Work history

Experience

Every role in reverse order. Starred tags are the ones that carried the work, not everything I touched.

  • Solutions Engineer InternPeakActivity

    Turning the operational problems internal teams and prospective clients describe into working agent pipelines on PeakActivity's SteelEngine platform. The demos have to hold up live, in front of the client.

    • Built automated workflow demos on the SteelEngine agentic platform for internal teams and prospective clients, translating stated operational needs and pain points into configured agent pipelines used in live pitches.
    • Prototyped several workflow variants for a single automation use case, audited each for efficiency to determine the strongest implementation, then standardized it and refined it against user feedback.
    • Agent pipelines
    • Workflow automation
    • Prototyping
    • Client demos
  • University Learning ExternServiceNow

    Six weeks inside ServiceNow University learning how the platform is actually put together, from administering an instance to building AI agents on top of it. The last two weeks were the part that mattered most later: agents that plan, reason, and automate a workflow rather than just running a script.

    • Completed 8 courses and roughly 32 hours of coursework across a 6-week program, covering the platform end to end: navigation, lists and filters, forms, tasks, platform analytics, knowledge management, service catalog, and Virtual Agent.
    • Worked through all 9 ServiceNow Administration Fundamentals modules, from data management and self-service configuration through to securing an instance, closing with a 2-hour hands-on capstone project.
    • Covered IT Service Management fundamentals across operating, maintaining, and improving IT services, then built flows and subflows in Flow Designer.
    • Configured and built AI agents through Now Assist, including enabling AI search on a student instance and a lab on getting agents to plan, reason, and automate workflows.
    • Attended live sessions with ServiceNow engineers, talent acquisition, and partner companies alongside the hands-on platform labs.
    • Agent pipelines
    • Workflow automation
    • ServiceNow
    • Flow Designer
    • Now Assist
    • ITSM

    Two months before the PeakActivity internship, and the reason the agentic workflow work there felt familiar rather than foreign. The heaviest module by far was data management, which is the correct lesson: the interesting part of a workflow platform is almost never the workflow, it is the shape of the data underneath it.

  • Sophomore Summit Pre-InternshipBNY

    A competitive pre-internship program at BNY introducing sophomores to financial services, ending in a timed team coding competition.

    • Selected as 1 of ~50 sophomores, engaging directly with senior leaders across the firm and exploring core business areas through rotational sessions.
    • Placed 2nd of 8 teams in a HackerRank coding challenge, solving 2 algorithm problems in Java under time: a greedy playlist optimization and an IPO share allocation system, both resting on getting the sorting and grouping right.
    • Built early career foundations through résumé and interview workshops with the campus recruitment team.
    • Java
    • Algorithms
    • Competition
  • PresidentBengali Student Association

    Running UCF's Bengali Student Association after working up through marketing and the vice presidency. The job is mostly delegation and calendar: nine people, fifteen events, one academic year.

    • Leading a 9-person board, delegating across marketing, events, and operations to execute 15 planned events for the 2026–2027 academic year.
    • Directing club operations end to end, covering multicultural events, membership initiatives, and club sales and fundraising, to promote Bengali culture on campus.
    • Leadership
    • Event operations
    • Delegation
    • Marketing strategy
  • UI/UX DesignerKnight Hacks

    Designing the landing page and application flow for Knight Hacks IX, UCF's hackathon. The page has one job: get a student who is curious to actually finish an application.

    • Designing wireframes, landing page layouts, and conversion-focused UI flows for Knight Hacks IX, guiding users toward key calls to action and contributing to a 41% increase in applications against 1,000+ expected applicants.
    • Working in Figma and Notion across a 17-person design team to establish and maintain a consistent design system and a clean handoff to the developers.
    • Creating graphics for Knight Hacks IX and general club initiatives, including the social content used across the organization's platforms.
    • Figma
    • UI/UX
    • Design systems
    • Graphic design
    • Adobe Photoshop
    • Canva
    • Notion
  • Vice PresidentBengali Student Association

    A transition straight out of the marketing role, and a different job: less making things, more making sure everyone else had what they needed to run the events on the calendar.

    • Oversaw day-to-day club operations, coordinating across teams so board members had the resources and direction to execute events.
    • Organized 2 campus events with 100+ attendees, coordinating logistics, securing sponsorships, and managing the fundraising that sustained operations.
    • Event operations
    • Leadership
    • Fundraising
  • Marketing DirectorBengali Student Association

    The organization's events were good and almost nobody outside the room knew they were happening. This role was fixing that: the social accounts became the main way people found out.

    • Grew the organization's Instagram to 196,000 monthly views across posts, stories, and reels, a 157.6% reach increase at a 26.2% growth rate.
    • Increased follower count by 838 users, a 6.6% rise in a single month, generating 1,661 interactions including 274 shares.
    • Designed the posts and graphics behind that growth, and the event advertising that built partnerships with other registered student organizations.
    • Social media
    • Graphic design
    • Adobe Photoshop
    • Canva
  • Outreach TeamKnight Hacks

    First stint with Knight Hacks, a year before returning to its design team.

    • Promoted the club to students across campus and contributed to the outreach strategy for growing engagement.
    • Outreach
  • Editor-in-ChiefOlympic Heights Yearbook

    A staff of sixteen, a production calendar that could not slip, and a book that had to sell well enough to pay for itself. The goal was getting an entire school year into one book without it reading like a filing cabinet.

    • Led 16 staff members, overseeing the graphic design workflow and editorial production across the year.
    • Built a production schedule that kept the whole staff moving in the same direction, and managed the interpersonal side of a team that size.
    • Earned a profit margin of roughly $12,000 through yearbook sales.
    • Leadership
    • Editorial production
    • Adobe Photoshop
    • Graphic design

    Spent the year before this on the same staff as a journalist and photographer, from August 2022 to August 2023. Roughly the same room both years, though a lot of people graduated between them and a lot of new people came in, so leading it meant leading a staff that was half strangers to each other.

    This was the first thing I ever ran where other people’s work depended on my scheduling being right. Most of what I know about delegating came from here rather than from anything technical.

  • Co-Founder and Vice PresidentMarch For Our Lives at Olympic Heights

    A close friend and I started a chapter at our high school. March For Our Lives is a student-led organization founded in 2018 against gun violence, and the point of the chapter was making sure people around us were informed before they got to a ballot rather than after.

    • Co-founded and ran the school's chapter, building it from nothing into a standing presence on campus over two years.
    • Ran tabling events across the school encouraging voter pre-registration, so students turning eighteen were already registered when it counted.
    • Hosted larger events raising awareness on subjects including women's rights, and worked with other clubs on joint-effort events.
    • Leadership
    • Event operations
    • Community

    The oldest thing on this page and still one I care about. The goal was never just to make an event happen. It was to make it worth showing up to, and worth remembering afterwards.

  • Community VolunteerAl-Amin Center of Florida

    Nine years volunteering at my local Islamic center, since I was in middle school. Event logistics, fundraising, and the Friday collections.

    • Supported community events with 700+ attendees, coordinating logistics and keeping service running on the day.
    • Assisted fundraising efforts that contributed to $200,000+ in donations in a single month, supporting community programs.
    • Handled donation collection at every Friday prayer, and took part in the center's yearly interfaith programs.
    • Community
    • Event operations
    • Fundraising

Education

University of Central Florida

B.S. Computer Engineering · GPA 4.0 · Aug 2024 – May 2028 · Orlando, FL

Coursework

  • Data Structures and Algorithms
  • Object-Oriented Programming
  • Computer Organization
  • Digital Systems
  • Differential Equations