Software Engineer · AI Researcher
Shazeb Wani
I build full-stack products and research the machine learning systems behind them — a Computer Science senior at Georgia Tech, founder of Univo, and a contributor to a GECCO 2026 paper on LLM-guided neural architecture search.
I'm a Computer Science student at Georgia Tech — concentrating in Intelligence & Information Internetworks, graduating December 2026 — working at the intersection of software engineering and applied AI: building production systems and researching where machine learning models can (and can't) be trusted.
I'm the founder of Univo, and I've interned as a software engineer at Fannie Mae and Hachi. On the research side, I'm a contributor to a GECCO 2026 paper on LLM-guided neural architecture search, and I spent last year red-teaming LLMs as an Algoverse Research Fellow.
Outside of code, I founded SCOV, a free computer-science outreach program that's reached 200+ students across the DMV, and I serve as Finance Principal for Georgia Tech's Muslim Student Association.
Where I've built things
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Jun 2026 – Aug 2026Software Development Engineer Intern, Hedge AccountingFannie Mae
- Built an AWS/Python regression-testing framework for hedge-accounting models, replacing a half-day manual process with a 5-minute automated run across 10 datasets (~50x faster).
- Engineered data-capture and comparison tooling across S3, DynamoDB, and SQL-scripted Parquet outputs, validating 4 data-validation methodologies in a single automated run.
- Owned debugging and root-cause analysis across CI-integrated regression suites, hardening production QA reliability ahead of releases.
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Aug 2025 – PresentUndergraduate Researcher — Contributor, GECCO 2026 paperAutomated Algorithm Design VIP, Georgia Tech
- Developed LLM-guided surrogate models that encode neural architectures as PyTorch code and embed them with a frozen CodeLlama model, eliminating expensive NAS-specific fine-tuning.
- Integrated the surrogate into the BANANAS search algorithm on NAS-Bench-201, cutting evaluations needed to reach a near-optimal CIFAR-100 architecture by 34%.
- Ran 100-trial cross-validation on H100/HPC clusters across the full 15,625-architecture search space.
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Jul 2025 – Jan 2026Research FellowAlgoverse Research Fellowship
- Built PyTorch and HarmBench evaluation benchmarks measuring LLM robustness and adversarial attack transferability across multiple jailbreak categories.
- Developed a hybrid red-teaming method blending automated and human-generated jailbreaking, matching the DAN baseline on HarmBench evaluations.
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May 2025 – PresentFounder / Full-Stack EngineerUnivo (Startup)
- Built a cross-platform marketplace in React Native and Node.js — listings, search, filtering, and end-to-end payment flows.
- Implemented Stripe transaction pipelines with Express.js webhooks, handling retries and idempotency for reliable payments.
- Designed object-oriented TypeScript REST APIs on Firebase for real-time sync across clients.
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Jan 2025 – Jul 2025Software Engineer InternHachi LLC
- Built a post-meeting analytics dashboard for a Zoom App with near-real-time (<3s) updates across 100+ active users.
- Integrated the Zoom SDK and OAuth 2.0, securely managing data and access tokens for 200+ active accounts.
- Optimized backend services with REST APIs and Redis caching, cutting request overhead 40%+.
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Dec 2024 – PresentFinance PrincipalGeorgia Tech Muslim Student Association
- Leading a 10-person team managing a $30K budget and financial operations for 240+ members and 300+-attendee events.
- Delivered major annual events at ~20% of the prior year's cost while maintaining event quality.
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Aug 2022 – PresentFounderSCOV
- Founded and scaled a free computer-science outreach program to 200+ students (grades 3–9) across 3 DMV counties, doubling summer enrollment year over year.
- Independently designed and taught a Scratch, JavaScript, and web-development curriculum across 3 cohorts a year.
Things I've shipped & explored
Student marketplace app with authentication, listings, and Stripe payments.
Live-meeting Zoom App with in-meeting analytics, OAuth-protected routes, and low-latency Redis rollups.
Social platform linked to workouts, using the Gemini API for personalized routine recommendations. Not yet built.
Flask-based funeral-services app with an OpenEMR-integrated backend, built & deployed for Masjid Al-Farooq.
Researching systematic jailbreaks that induce biased outputs, and building an evaluation harness to measure them.
Sentinel-2 segmentation pipeline tuned with AdamW & Dice/Tversky losses — +13% accuracy, ~21% faster convergence.
Evolving hybrid algorithms from human baselines with genetic programming, on Georgia Tech's Automated Algorithm Design VIP.
Let's talk
I'm always interested in new opportunities, collaborations, and interesting projects. Reach out if you'd like to work together — or just want to say hello.