Toronto / Doha / Software Engineer_
Open to 2026 roles

TajwaarShafiq.

Tajwaar Shafiq

{{ blurbPre }}{{ blurbUline }}{{ blurbMid }}{{ blurbPostPre }}{{ blurbUline2 }}{{ blurbPostAfter }}

{{ blurbPre }}{{ blurbUline }}{{ blurbMid }}{{ blurbPostPre }}{{ blurbUline2 }}{{ blurbPostAfter }}

12mo
SWE INTERNSHIP AT VEEVA
5+
SHIPPED PROJECTS
15+
LANGUAGES & FRAMEWORKS
{{ marquee }}
Work Experience
July 2026 - Present
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Research Contributor · Doha, Qatar
In conjunction with Hamad Bin Khalifa University
5 PAPERS CO-AUTHORED / REVIEWED
Python Hugging Face ms-swift Qwen OpenAI · Whisper Google · Gemma
01Conducting Arabic text/speech NLP for spoken language understanding under the Arabic Language Technologies (ALT) team's AURA initiative.
02Building end-to-end paralinguistic data/training pipelines for the world's leading Arabic LLM, Fanar, for low-resource and dialectal speech with ms-swift and vLLM.
May 2024 - April 2025
Veeva Systems
Veeva Systems
SWE Intern · Toronto
12 MONTHS · FULL-TIME TERM
Java TypeScript React · Redux MySQL RTK Query
01Built customer-facing features on multi-tenant cloud SaaS: data model changes, backend services, database triggers, and API design in Java and MySQL, inside active Agile sprints.
02Shipped reusable React, Redux, and TypeScript components, page routers, and grid-view controls of customer tabular data, and drove RTK Query adoption for major efficiency gains.
03Investigated slow production MySQL queries during upgrades, avoiding 10%+ increases in customer downtime, and ran cross-team impact analyses closing security vulnerabilities.
The Journey - الحمد للّه
Projects & academic milestones, most recent first
PAPER / 2026
Aslema @ NADI 2026
FIRST AUTHOR
Peer-reviewed system paper, accepted to ArabicNLP 2026 (ACL). Builds an end-to-end synthetic speech pipeline that voice-clones a low-resource dialect into training data, closing the gap for open omni LLMs that have almost no labelled Tunisian Arabic to learn from. Placed 1st in slot filling and 4th in intent recognition with the submitted system (Qwen3-Omni-30B), trained on real-plus-synthetic data. Full pipeline and corpus released for further research.
Python · ms-swift · vLLM · VoxCPM
READ ON ARXIV {{ arrowUR }}
WORK / 2026-PRESENT
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Research Contributor, Doha
In conjunction with Hamad Bin Khalifa University
ML RESEARCH CONTRIBUTOR
01Conducting Arabic text/speech NLP for spoken language understanding under the Arabic Language Technologies (ALT) team's AURA initiative.
02Building end-to-end paralinguistic data/training pipelines for the world's leading Arabic LLM, Fanar, for low-resource and dialectal speech with ms-swift and vLLM.
Python Hugging Face ms-swift Qwen OpenAI · Whisper Google · Gemma
JUNE 2026
Graduated - HBSc in Computer Science, UofT
Honours Bachelors of Science in Computer Science (Specialist) from the University of Toronto (St. George).
2025 / AWARD
WIL Student of the Year Nominee
★ NATIONAL SHORTLIST
Shortlisted to represent the University of Toronto for the CEWIL Canada and Experiential & Work-Integrated Learning Ontario (EWO) Student of the Year Awards, recognizing exceptional work-integrated learning during the Veeva Systems term.
PROJECT / 2025
Gen-AI Predictor
TEAM LEAD
NLP on long-text student surveys with decision trees, naive Bayes, neural networks, and random forests, tuned to 98/94/88% accuracy across train, validation, and test. Ran the team as Scrum Master.
Python · sklearn · pandas · numpy
VIEW ON GITHUB {{ arrowUR }}
2025
Chosen as ASIP's First Mentor
Lead student consultant in establishing the ASIP Mentorship Program, then hand-picked as its very first mentor — now guiding newer computer science students.
WORK / 2024-2025
Veeva Systems
Veeva Systems
Software Engineer Intern, Toronto
SOFTWARE ENGINEER INTERN
01Customer-facing features on multi-tenant cloud SaaS: data model changes, backend services, database triggers, and API design in Java and MySQL, inside active Agile sprints.
02Reusable React, Redux, and TypeScript components, page routers, grid-view controls of customer tabular data, and RTK Query adoption for major efficiency gains.
03Investigated slow production MySQL queries during upgrades, avoiding 10%+ increases in customer downtime, and ran cross-team impact analyses closing security vulnerabilities.
Java TypeScript React · Redux MySQL RTK Query
PROJECT
Park Mindfulness
ONTARIO PARKS
Guided outdoor mindfulness platform built with Ontario Parks: Django models, SQL queries, REST APIs, AWS EC2/CodeDeploy hosting, and an automated CI/CD pipeline via GitHub Actions.
Django · SQL · AWS · GitHub Actions
VIEW ON GITHUB {{ arrowUR }}
MILESTONE
Selected for ASIP's First Cohort
Arts & Science Internship Program + Mentorship Program, with IBM-partnered professional development.
2022-2023
Dean's List Scholar
HACKATHON
CarGo
★ NEWHACKS V WINNER
Award-winning peer-to-peer vehicle rental platform: Django CRUD backend with SQLite, Bootstrap frontend, and GCP Maps and Places API integration.
Django · Bootstrap · GCP · Heroku
VIEW ON GITHUB {{ arrowUR }}
PROJECT
Productivity Suite
TEAM LEAD / 96%
Calendar and task suite with individual and group tasks and notes: full-stack Java with object-oriented design and test-driven development, in an Agile team.
Java · JSON · OOD · TDD
VIEW ON GITHUB {{ arrowUR }}
PROJECT
Toronto Rent-Population Analysis
Scraped and cleaned 20 years of City of Toronto census data, built relational databases, and queried rent-vs-population relationships across all 25 wards; findings presented to students, TAs, and professors.
Python · pandas · SQL · Postgres
VIEW ON GITHUB {{ arrowUR }}
{{ playTitle }}
{{ playSub }}
guest@tajwaar — shell
{{ ln.text }}
{{ termPrompt }}
PAPER PLANE — TAP, CLICK, OR SPACE TO STAY AIRBORNE BEST: 0