CREDENTIALS
Computer Science, Economics & Data Science
Focusing on creating an impact to actually change and help the world.
ORIGINS
Born in Egypt. Grew up during the 2011 Revolution. Moved to California at 7. Bilingual in Arabic & English, built between two worlds.
FIRST BUILD
At 12, ran Minecraft servers on Windows Server 2016, the shift from user to system architect. First taste of owning infrastructure.
DRIVE
"Low-income background taught relentless resourcefulness: squeeze everything from every opportunity."
RESEARCH
Built Nystagmus Vision, computer vision software stabilizing text for patients with eye movement disorders. Awarded 2x Silver at RCSEF.
ROBOTICS
Led FTC Robotics Team 8472 as Team Captain, writing Java for complex autonomous routines, scoring up to 150 pts.
COMMUNITY
Volunteered 4–8 hrs/week at Loma Linda University Hospital. Founded the school Coding Club.
ACADEMICS
Won National Online Champions in Academic Decathlon. Accepted to QuestBridge National College Match.
ADMISSIONS
Applied to 40+ programs. Selected for 13 fly-in programs, traveling across 9 states visiting campuses nationwide.
ACADEMICS
Enrolled at MIT pursuing Computer Science, Data Science & Economics. Staff writer at The Tech, MIT's independent newspaper since 1881.
HACKATHON
Built RefGraph at HackMIT 2025: an AI-powered citation network explorer surfacing hidden connections between research papers.
STARTUPS BUILT
Plateform:Built and launched an AI-native campus dining operations platform; reached ~100 active student users at MIT and supported menus for 10+ colleges by May 2026.
FirstPass:Designed and built an AI-native building code compliance tool for architects, with Excalidraw integration for plan submission and automated code checking.
SPECTR:Founded and began building a fraud detection and payment management platform targeting city governments and public fund compliance, positioning against the $800B+ federal grant stack.
PROGRAMS & RECOGNITION
Y Combinator Startup School:Accepted into the YC Startup School June 2026 cohort.
TekTrek:Selected for a competitive 2-month student founder residency in San Francisco (Summer 2026); presented SPECTR on day one.
SYSTEM NODE 01
The payment integrity platform that finds compliance failures before the money leaves, and generates the compliance reports agencies are legally required to file.
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SYSTEM NODE 02
Prediction market trading engine. Five independent signal sources across Kalshi & Polymarket, Kelly-sized positions, ten risk checks per order.
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SYSTEM NODE 03
Computer vision software counter-oscillating text to match eye movement. Awarded 2x Silver at RCSEF.
Achievements
SYSTEM NODE 04
Personalized nutrition tracking, as easy as Apple Pay. Real-time dining hall menus ranked against your goals.
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SYSTEM NODE 04
Graph-native academic citation explorer. AI extracts concepts, maps citation networks, surfaces hidden connections between papers.
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TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
PYTHON
JAVA
SWIFT
C
JS
TS
JULIA
MATLAB
REACT
NEXT.JS
TAILWIND
SUPABASE
FIGMA
GITHUB
PREMIERE
PHOTOSHOP
ILLUSTRATOR
VIRTUALBOX
ARCH LINUX
CANVA