hello. my name is shahzeb and i am a full-stack developer, AI researcher, and data analyst.

My technical projects span many disciplines such as machine learning, IoT, web-development, bots, and even game development.

Frank Ocean Music App

An app which notifies you when new Frank Ocean music comes out. App grew to 20,000 users.

Oasis - The ultimate IoT hub

An IoT hub which allows you to publish and subscribe to MQTT events. Honorable mention in the Amazon hackathon.

Travel insurance app

A web app for University study-abroad students to buy travel insurance. Winner of a global hackathon.

Spark Connect Messanger bot

A bot that sparks a connection with people around you by helping you discover fun things to do in your city.

Deep Learning AWS Setup

Shell scripts and tutorial on how to get started with deep learning on AWS while saving some money.

machine learning

SoundCloud web player

Use SoundCloud's public API to play songs in the browser.

A message board built using Express, Redis, and DynamoDB.

Flipped classroom app

Flipped is a classroom platform that places lectures at home and builds the relationship between instructors and students.

I enjoy writing about both technical subjects and about things going on in my life. You can visit my blog to view all the posts.

1

Demystifying Typescript + Webpack + Babel

A deep dive into how to use TypeScript. Also explains what the role of Webpack and Babel is.

2

Contentful integration for Rails

A useful tutorial on how to integrate Contentful into a Ruby on Rails application.

3

Log custom metrics to AWS CloudWatch

Track custom events on AWS CloudWatch. Really helpful for sending custom metric such as Sidekiq job timeouts.

4

Getting react-big-calendar to work.

React Big Calendar went through an upgrade which introduced breaking changes and made many of the online tutorials and documentation obsolete. Hopefully my guide helps.

5

Dynamically render React components

An advanced guide on rendering React components from a string which represents the component name.

6

Add analytics on links in React.

An advanced React guide to adding analytics (such as Google Analytics) to your React button components.

I am passionate about photography. Here are some recent images I took at various beaches.

Rocky beach

Cloudy beach

Santa Cruz beach

Night time beach

What am I currently working on? Well...

brb i am going to make my own music social network
— shahz (@shahzebdev) October 26, 2019

Computer Science graduate from University of California, Davis (B.S.).