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ABOUT ME

// behind the code

Tariq Ahmad
Open to new opportunities in software development and AI.

I'm Tariq, a Computer Engineering graduate from Istanbul Aydin University. What started as curiosity about how things work under the hood turned into a genuine passion for building software that doesn't just function, but feels right to use.

My path hasn't been a straight line, and I think that's a strength. I've worked on Industry 4.0 research, kept networks running for a logistics company, and built web apps from scratch. Each role taught me something different, and together they shaped how I approach problems: practically, patiently, and with a healthy skepticism for "we've always done it this way."

I speak English and Dari fluently and get by in Hindi, which comes in handy more often than you'd expect. Day to day, I work with C, C++, Java, Python, and modern web frameworks, but I'm more interested in the problem in front of me than the tool I use to solve it.

My Stack

languages

  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • Java
  • C
  • C++
  • C#
  • PHP

frontend

  • React
  • React Native
  • Next.js
  • Angular
  • Bootstrap
  • Tailwind

backend

  • Node.js
  • Express.js
  • Django
  • Spring Boot
  • Firebase

database

  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB

tools

  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Docker
  • AWS

My Experience

  • Digital Security and Communications Officer

    Family Support and Welfare Organisations (FSWO)

    Digital security and communications for a welfare NGO across provincial teams — hardened mailboxes and meeting channels for remote operations, kept electronic records in order, and protected participant data with VPNs and secure tooling.

    4 MO
  • Research Assistant

    Istanbul Aydin University — Industry 4.0 Research Centre

    Applied AI research for smart manufacturing across two terms — starting as an intern in spring 2024 and continuing as a research assistant through July 2025. Surveyed applied-AI approaches, built and benchmarked Python prototypes, and kept only what held up under testing.

    1 YR 5 MO
  • Frontend Developer Intern

    Caretta Software Company

    Shipped responsive web interfaces in React and modern CSS inside a team codebase, through code reviews and shared ownership. My first exposure to professional workflow, and the reality that "it works on my machine" is never a good enough answer.

    3 MO
  • Research Intern

    Istanbul Aydin University

    Joined computer engineering research initiatives to turn sprawling, ambiguous problems into questions small enough to actually answer — mostly through data analysis and literature review.

    4 MO
  • Network Technician

    Tawhid Almas Logistics Company

    Owned the network infrastructure keeping every department of a logistics company connected. When the network goes down in a logistics company, nothing moves, so uptime was not optional.

    3 MO
  • IT Support Specialist

    Tawhid Almas Logistics Company

    Kept daily logistics operations running through frontline technical support and systems maintenance. Learned that patience and a clear explanation often matter as much as technical knowledge, especially when someone just needs their system back up.

    3 MO

Certifications

Oxford International Digital Institute

Oxford Test of English - Overall Score: 8.0

November 2025

Meta | Coursera

React Native

March 2025

IDP Education

IELTS - Overall Band: 6.0

February 2025

Stanford | Coursera

Unsupervised Learning, Recommenders, Reinforcement Learning

September 2024

Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification

August 2024

Google | Coursera

Technical Support Fundamentals

December 2023

Crash Course on Python

November 2023

Introduction to Large Language Models

October 2023

Introduction to Generative AI

July 2023

Microsoft | edX

Introduction to C++

November 2020

Erasoft IT Institute

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

August 2019

Wireless Networking

August 2019

Microsoft Certified Solution Expert (MCSE)

July 2019

University of Queensland | edX

IELTS Academic Test Preparation

December 2017

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Testimonials

Tariq joined our Industry 4.0 Research Center in his second year, which is earlier than most students do. He just got on with the boring work, literature reviews, cleaning data, running the same experiments again. His graduation project proved what we already knew, he does not cut corners. For me he is up there with the best students I have supervised.

Alparslan Horasan

Assistant Professor

I have mentored a lot of interns and Tariq picked things up quicker than anyone. By week three he was writing React components we could actually ship and asking good questions about our design choices. He came second in our internal coding competition too, honestly that did not surprise me. Just look at his GitHub, he finishes what he starts.

Selçuk Şener

Senior Software Developer

He is one of those students whose work makes you stop and look. His Hotel Management System was not even assigned, he built it alone with C#, .NET and MySQL just because he wanted to make something real, most undergrads do not do that. He explains technical stuff clearly in English as well, and that kind of communication helps a team a lot more than people think.

Roa'a Ali

Assistant Professor

What I remember about Tariq is he kept learning after exams were over. He would come to office hours and ask about ML architectures and cloud deployment, stuff that was not even in the course. He did Stanford's machine learning certification by himself and his TensorFlow digit classifier showed he got the math behind it, not only the API calls. You do not see that depth often in undergrad work.

Wasim Raed

Senior Professor

He kept coming back to our Industry 4.0 Research Center for three terms even though he did not have to. Every term we gave him bigger tasks, at first literature reviews, then helping design experiments, then presenting results to the group. A lot of undergrads just use research for their CV. Tariq actually cared about it.

Zafer Aslan

Vice Dean

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