name: Shawaiz Ali
role: Android & Mobile Developer | AI/ML Enthusiast
education: BS Computer Science @ FAST NUCES, Lahore
focus:
- Native Android (Java/Kotlin)
- Cross-platform apps (React Native + Expo)
- Applied AI/ML (YOLOv8, TensorFlow, PyTorch)
currently:
- Interning β shipping React Native/Expo projects day by day
- Scoping a Final Year Project (leaning toward crowd-sourced indoor positioning)
- Building consumer apps for the Pakistani market π΅π°
fun_fact: Runs local LLMs on an RTX 5070 instead of sleeping
π οΈ KaamKarwaoOn-demand home services, bidding & admin ecosystem Production-grade Expo/React Native marketplace connecting customers with professionals β real-time WebSocket bidding, polygon geofencing, in-app VoIP, and a full admin control panel across 180+ source files.
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π½οΈ Khana MangwaoFood ordering app frontend Frontend for a food-ordering platform built for the Pakistani market, following the same production-app patterns used across the KaamKarwao ecosystem.
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π¬ ClipMachineLocal-first AI video clipper Turns long-form video into ranked, viral-ready 9:16 shorts β AI highlight detection, dynamic auto-subtitles, and a local pipeline (yt-dlp, faster-whisper, ffmpeg) that runs fully offline via Ollama.
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π©Ί Neem-Bert-HakeemBERT-based NLP experiment A BERT-driven natural language project exploring domain-specific text understanding.
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π» CodeackPlatform for code maniacs Full-stack platform built as a Software Design & Architecture course project, with a documented SOLID-principles-driven backend/frontend split.
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πΊοΈ FriendsLySocial proximity / hangout app High-fidelity 21-screen dark-theme prototype in Figma, including an alternative radial-orbit UI concept and full wireframe/storyboard sets.
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React Native for Amazon Fire TV (Vega OS)
Fixed a React Navigation freeze/remount race condition, built polling fallbacks for missing native
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π΅ music_playerYouTube-powered Android music player Resolved audio-focus conflicts with an embedded WebView, migrated Piped β Invidious with debouncing & dead-instance tracking, and integrated the YouTube Data API v3 for search.
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Full e-commerce app with Expo Router Built with React Query for server state and Zustand for client state, following a modular, scalable architecture.
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π YoloV8Computer vision object detection Applied YOLOv8 for real-time object detection β the foundation for a fruit/veggie recognition pipeline.
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[========================> ] React Native / Expo β advanced patterns
[==================> ] Final Year Project β indoor positioning R&D
[==============> ] Android build tooling (Gradle / JDK wrangling)
[================> ] Local-first LLM tooling with Ollama


