Software engineer · Montréal
Software engineering student at Polytechnique Montréal building reliable systems, real-time applications, and interactive products.
Exploring future opportunities.
Selected work
Three projects that span live-event infrastructure, cross-platform multiplayer, and coordinated exploration.
01 / Individual project · Completed live-event deployment
A full-stack live-event bingo experience engineered and deployed end to end for a real audience.
02 / Team project · Cross-platform turn-based RPG
A shared multiplayer game platform connecting Angular web and native Android clients to one real-time backend.
03 / Team hackathon · Multi-agent exploration
A coordinated exploration simulation in which autonomous sonar bots map an unknown environment together.
Experience
Résumé-reported outcomes from software roles in Montréal.
Software Developer Intern · PoC Team
Backend Software Developer Intern
Full-stack Software Developer Intern
Public repository archive
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11 repositories
An automatically maintained archive of accepted algorithm and data-structure solutions, organized by topic to document consistent interview preparation.
A technical profile highlighting systems design, performance, real-time software, backend engineering, cloud tooling, and embedded development.
A full-stack event bingo platform built with Next.js, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and Supabase, with authentication, proof submissions, progress tracking, and leaderboards.
A modern C++20 Wordle solver built around iterative constraint filtering, CMake, unit tests, and a compact dependency-light architecture.
An early-stage C++17 foundation for exploring Redis-style cache design, with a minimal executable and straightforward build workflow.
A real-time multiplayer strategy platform built with Angular, NestJS, WebSockets, and MongoDB, featuring AI opponents, map tooling, and two game modes.
A cross-platform real-time system connecting Kotlin/Compose and Angular clients to an Express, Socket.IO, and MongoDB backend with Firebase identity services.
A multithreaded Java client-server chat system using TCP sockets, per-client concurrency, authentication, message broadcasting, and persistent history.
A C++ and Qt6 chess application implementing polymorphic piece logic, move validation, check detection, promotion, and a pixel-art desktop interface.
A Python multi-agent exploration simulation using procedural graphs, heuristic search, hive coordination, NumPy, and OpenCV to map mineral deposits efficiently.
An Arduino robotics prototype integrating RFID access, environmental sensing, LCD feedback, RGB status, and servo-controlled mechanisms for StarHACK 2025.
Education, leadership & capabilities
01 / Education
Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering
2022 — May 2027 · Montréal, QC
02 / Leadership
Embedded Software Tech Lead
Led embedded software development for a robotic arm, implementing control algorithms and optimizations that produced a résumé-reported 25% improvement in precision and efficiency.
03 / Involvement
Electrical Engineering Division Member
Developed Python-based Raspberry Pi arm control, integrated a user-friendly remote, and optimized the connection for low-latency operation.
Java · JavaScript · TypeScript · Python · HTML · CSS · SQL · C/C++ · Kotlin · C# · Ruby
Node · NestJS · FastAPI · Spring · Spring Boot · GraphQL
React · React Native · Angular · Next.js · Kotlin · Qt
PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Supabase · Kafka
AWS · Google Cloud · Git · Postman · Datadog · Docker · Kubernetes · ArgoCD · Kiro
C/C++ · Java · Python · Raspberry Pi 4B
About / Contact
I’m Zakaria, a software engineering student in Montréal. I like turning ambiguous problems into dependable systems—from backend services and real-time infrastructure to embedded control software. I’m exploring future opportunities where I can contribute across backend, platform, or full-stack engineering.
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