Akbar Zafar

(416) 873-8797 · AKBARZAFAR2001@GMAIL.COM
About

A Computer Engineering student at the Univeristy of Waterloo.


Experience

Software Engineer Intern

Arctic Wolf
    Implemented end‑to‑end support for selection of new sensor options for a more tailored customer experience
    Enhanced team productivity by automating the customer onboarding process, eliminating manual intervention.
    Improved test coverage by 80% through unit and integration testing, enhancing code quality and maintainability
Jan 2023 - April 2023

Infrastructure Developer Intern

BioRender
    Improved test coverage by 80% through unit and integration testing, enhancing code quality and maintainability
    Migrated existing infrastructure to AWS by leveraging AWS CDK, saving $14,000 USD annually in overhead expenses
    Enhanced application sustainability with EC2 security policies and data visualization dashboards for core services
May 2022 - Aug 2022

Cloud Developer Intern

SAP
    Implemented a customized Kubernetes management engine to execute pipelines over distributed clusters
    Restructured the main CI/CD pipeline from Jenkins to Argo Workflows by parallelizing independent scheduled jobs
    Repaired the database purging service by addressing resource availability bugs improving product sustainability
Sept 2021 - Dec 2021

Software Engineer Intern

Kaleidescape Inc.
    Leveraged FFMPEG to develop async tools providing image statistics of a specified frame in a real‑time dashboard
    Optimized the transcoding pipeline by allowing shorter transcodes reducing operations team idle time by 99%
    Developed an end‑to‑end custom image‑differencing algorithm and region selection in an analytical dashboard
Jan 2021 - Apr 2021

Software Developer Intern

University of Ottawa, Engineering OUTREACH
    Migrated Selenium tests to Protractor using page object methodologies improving test time by 60%
    Created a landing page customization feature to support white labeling increasing customer engagement
    Introduced a region dashboard utilizing a REST API allowing customers to manage their personal regions
May 2020 - Aug 2020

Projects

VHDL Compiler
Created a compiler for the VHDL programming language featuring the interpreter and visitor design patterns
TrackTor
A comprehensive Android app easing management for farmers with speech‑to‑text recording, offline functionality, analytics dashboard, multi‑user collaboration, and progress tracking for streamlined farm management
Image Concatenator
Employed the cURL library create an image concatenator application to pull and concatenate remote images in par‑ allel using multiple threads and synchronized shared memory through mutexes
Genie Vision Tool
An AI‑powered smart vision tool that processes live visual data to produce audio feedback empowering visually impaired individuals with enhanced perception of their surroundings.
PricePoint.
Winner for best UiPath automation hack.
A web application to find the best deals for products
Explorer Quest
Strategic turn based game on Android

Education

University of Waterloo

Candidate for B.ASc. in Computer Engineering
Relevant Courses:

Software design and architecture, Computer security, Compilers, Real‑time operating systems, Systems programming and concurrency, Data structures and algorithms

Sept 2019 - April 2024

Erindale Secondary School

High School Diploma
Sept 2015 - June 2019