publicly facing resume (scroll down for more)
co-founder at surjective (now sunset-ed)
oct 2023 - jan 2024
- building a marketplace for specialized models and llm's. notably, we interviewed with YC for the W24 batch.
- failed because we couldn't find the right model provider + the product wasn't something i wanted to exist that badly.
software eng intern at pair.ai (YC S23)
may 2023 - sept 2023
- making education more consumable in the age of short form content.
software eng intern at xanadu.ai
may 2022 - sept 2022
- built quantum cloud pipeline for the world's most powerful quantum computers
- designed core features for Xanadu's quantum hackathon
- made an internal company glossary bot for 200+ employees
software eng intern at virtusa
dec 2020 - apr 2021
software eng/project manager at theplantfactory
sept 2019 - jan 2021
- constructed, painted and welded greenhouses all across sri lanka!
- built a greenhouse monitoring and control system, conserving 70% more water than traditional irrigation.
- designed websites, marketplace app, resulting in 300+ sales/mo
the more fun resume (with pictures)
how safe is sf?
may 2024 (weekend project)
- a fun website to see how safe a neighborhood is in san francisco
- inspired by my friend brooke after i moved to sf and wasn't sure how safe wherever i was going was
- also a challenge to make a beautiful website experience with a lot of data
wanted to know how safe sf is?
— HudZah (@hud_zah) May 16, 2024
how safe is SF [dot] com pic.twitter.com/Ak6Opg3KTK
wigglegrams
apr 2024 (weekend project)
- a simple app to make wigglegrams from images, a socratica project
- see examples here
in my latest shenanigans, introducing wigglegrams dot com
— HudZah (@hud_zah) March 26, 2024
an overdue weekend project to quickly edit and create fun wiggling photos in seconds!
made during a @socraticainfo session pic.twitter.com/SjN4F70UrB
resonant.love
feb 2024 (valentines day project)
- friend filtered matchmaking thing. wingman your friends. powered by LLMs and large context lengths.
convertly
feb 2024 (weekend project)
- a cli file conversion tool for bulk file conversions. can convert from any file to any file. + can do other things
Convertly has now gone from a conversion tool to an agent that monologues and executes any code. comparison of convertly vs. open-interpreter. pic.twitter.com/WB2o4dOkXM
— HudZah (@hud_zah) February 12, 2024
scotland yard simulator
jan 2024 (weekend project)
- a simple app to simulate the scotland yard board game, wanted to see how hard it is to win as Mr.X
lost to my friends in scotland yard yesterday. to prove itβs not skill issue (π€§) i built the entire game in python and simulated it 1000 times pic.twitter.com/nio3zCIfmr
— HudZah (@hud_zah) January 30, 2024
matchmaking poster
nov 2023 (team project)
- improved our original matchmaking poster by giving people color-coded name tags to help find friends at events with similar interests. made with Brayden and improving upon Anson's original poster
- generated all 450 custom name tags using Figma plugins
thinking about how the team improved our og matchmaking poster by giving ppl color coded name tags to help find friends with similar interests
— Socratica (@socraticainfo) November 30, 2023
and generated all 450 custom nametags with.... figma plugins??? https://t.co/284oQMAeOC pic.twitter.com/KZLSW7cVgl
camcorder edits
nov 2023 - present
- some videos i made using my camcorder!
youtube adblocker
nov 2023 (weekend project)
- a simple extension to block ads on youtube after ublock origin stopped working
- try it here
vertical farms!
aug 2023 - present
- trying to grow my own food in my apartment. i'm building a vertical farm to do so!
- built a gigantic grow tent in my apartment with reflective walls and led lights to grow during the winter.
- my current system saves around 95% more water than traditional irrigation methods β although it uses around 3.5 kWh of power per day :(
- currently growing jalaepenos, beefsteak tomatoes, lettuce, deep purple basil, and parsley. will be featuring these in my cooking
- got top 16 out of 17,000 projects in buildspace s4!
- won emergent ventures and have been funded by Tyler Cowen to continue working on this!
socratica
may 2023 - present
- socratica is rethinking maker culture at waterloo (and now in 30+ other cities!) by running weekly co-working sessions
- running the symposium and experiencing the magic first hand will forever be a life highlight. who knew that waterloo would be a destination on a random thursday night!
- we had over 1500 unique attendees at our sessions, launched 30+ new nodes, and enabled hundreds of thousands of hours of creative work
- we finally open sourced our work by launching the toolbox to help rekindle maker culture all across the world
- most importantly, we had a lot of fun, hosting paint night, potlucks, clay nights and even launching a lounge space called the dungeon!
3d gif maker
dec 2023 (weekend project)
- easily create moving gifs from images, like the ones seen in my camera roll.
here's an app i made last week to easily create moving photos :)
— HudZah (@hud_zah) December 11, 2023
a thread of some of my favourite photos: pic.twitter.com/OW4qxDx10z
gpt4-v screenshot namer
nov 2023 (weekend project)
- automate the task of naming screenshots for macOS, no more confusing images that you don't know why you have!
ok this is something i've personally really wanted so here's a version i just made using Mac's Automater + gpt4v https://t.co/8yif0GNHyu pic.twitter.com/M510hYUOk8
— HudZah (@hud_zah) November 12, 2023
soundboards & random games
jan 2020 - aug 2021
- silly soundboards i made to learn android studio while in sri lanka that eventually popped off after relentlessly pushing them on subreddits and optimizing ASO
- resulted in 250k+ users, 100% profit margins. funded my tuition, rent and shenanigans for a bit.
- installed at least once in every single country in the world
- marketed entirely by my cousins and i by making memes about the app and posting them on various subreddits
ThePlantFactory
sept 2019 - jan 2021
- founded by my friend Munir, and once a humble project that turned into a full scale operation
- travelled in random pickup trucks, built greenhouses and got a lot of paint on my clothes.
- did a bunch in revenue before sunsetting it since we had to move for university. ultimately shut everything down.
- raised $0
instagram bot
aug 2020
- an instagram bot that autimatically likes posts relating to a given hashtag
auto drawer
may 2020
- fun tkinter app to automatically draw a picture of a given object on MS paint
wearAmask
aug 2020 - dec 2020
- app to remind me to wear a mask! quite literally. one of my most technically challenging apps, learning how to create geofences around locations and trigger them instantly was tricky.
- hustled and did engineering, marketing, media and motion graphics on my own. first time using after effects and illustrator to make one of my favourite videos of all time! (i did copy Apple's don't blink ad)
- 3k+ users, 100k+ views on youtube and a lot of reddit gold
snapApaper
jan 2020 - aug 2020
- snapApaper was my first large project. an app that allows students to take photos of their past papers and find the corresponding marking schemes.
- built for the british curriculums, an immensly useful app that bypassed ad-filled and paywalled websites.
- also my first time working with computer vision and ML!
- 5k+ downloaded papers, 1k+ students and an unquantifiable number of high school graduates as a result of this app (me included).
youtube & video editing
jan 2017 - sept 2021
- made gaming on youtube for many years before ultimately stopping. a lot of minecraft, stardew valley and other games!
- spent a few years also professionally editing and freelancing with over 50 clients.
- spent a lot of time making thumbnails and in the process learned a lot of soft skills in design, media and 3d graphics.
- learned sony vegas, premire pro, photoshop, illustrator, cinema 4d, blender, making rigs and so much more.
- i think in another life, if i weren't in tech, my dream job would be to be a youtuber.
