Usaid Bin Shafqat

1200 Academy Street · Kalamazoo, MI 49006 · hello@usaidbinshafqat.com

Incoming SWE Intern @Microsoft. Junior at Kalamazoo College. Interested in AI, Cloud Computing and Web + Mobile Development.


Education

Kalamazoo College

B.A. in Computer Science and Economics
Coursework: Algorithms, Systems, Data Structures and Statistics
September 2019 - June 2023

Roots Millennium Schools

High School
Cambridge IGCSEs and A Levels
September 2019 - June 2023

Explo At Yale

Summer School
Mobile App Development, Public Speaking, Soccer and Fencing
June 2016 - July 2016

Projects

gg find app

HTML, VueJS and CheapShark API

A VueJS web app that I developed using CheapShark's API. It searches for PC games at different online stores and picks the cheapest deal available for that game.

Coffee Count

Swift & Google Firebase

An iOS app that I developed over winter break using Firebase. It counts the number of days since I have last had coffee and automatically updates that information in the Firebase database.

Young Voting Trends

Python

For the highly anticipated Pakistani national elections in 2018, I ran a month long study of trends of Pakistan's first-time voters. I later used Python to analyze and visualize the results of the survey.

Hackathon at Yale Explo

HTML & JavaScript

I participated in a 12-hour, invite-only hackathon at my Explo summer program at Yale University. Using primarily HTML and JavaScript, I created an interactive, full stack web app for city tour booking using Bootstrap.


Experience

Product Manager and Software Engineer

Conceived, designed and developed a web app for Kalamazoo College students to reconnect by hosting and discovering small-scale meetups as in-person residential college resumes.

Product and Software Intern

WonderTree

Gathered requirements for, designed and implemented UX improvements for AR-powered video games for children with learning difficulties. Also developed scripts to render games on different tabs; researched and documented user journy pain points while navigating web and game UIs.

Information Technology Consultant

Kalamazoo College

Student Consultant for the college's wireless networks, OS, driver and printer issues.

Teaching Assistant

Kalamazoo College

Hold office hours for students and grade Data Structures assignments.


Skills

Programming Languages & Tools

Awards & Certifications

  • 100% Merit Scholarship at High School (2017-2019)
  • 100% Merit Scholarship at Yale Explo (2016)
  • 100% Merit Scholarship at Oxford Royale Academy (2016)
  • 50% Merit Scholarship at Oxbridge Harvard (2017)