Fawwad A

Backend Engineering Mentee

Emumba • Part-time

Aug 2026 - Present • 2 mos

I build SmartHealth, a healthcare scheduling and operations backend - appointment booking that cannot double-book, provider schedules, billing pre-checks, and an AI layer that answers staff questions from clinical and policy documents. Stack: FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Temporal, Docker. Reviewed weekly by a senior engineer. This is where I learned to build backends that hold up under real traffic and real edge cases, not just demo data.

Research Assistant - AI and Retrieval

National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) • Part-time

Nov 2025 - Present • 11 mos

Research on retrieval-augmented generation at NUST SEECS. My final year project builds a model-agnostic security layer that detects poisoned documents and corrupted memory in AI agents. I also co-author a manuscript on zero-enrollment spoken keyword spotting for live video streams. This is why my chatbots answer from your documents instead of guessing - retrieval quality is what I study.

MERN Stack Developer Intern

10Pearls • Part-time

Mar 2026 - Jun 2026 • 3 mos

Selected for the 10Pearls Shine Internship (Cohort 8), an eight-week programme with senior-engineer mentorship. Built and deployed Slate, a full-stack MERN notes application - REST API design, component-based React UI, NoSQL data modelling and unit testing, shipped end to end. My first time working to a real engineering standard: code review, tickets, deadlines.