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Hey, I'm Bilal 👋

3rd year CS student at Seneca. I build full-stack applications, mostly Java and React, deployed on whatever cloud makes sense for the project. I tend to go deeper than necessary, Nest, my rental search app, somehow ended up with RabbitMQ and GKE workers. I learned a lot. Worth it, I hope..

I run technical workshops at Google Developer Group on campus. Heavy on dev tooling, AI, or anything that is important in the industry.

Heavy Cursor and Claude user. Not hiding it, I think knowing how to work with AI tooling is just part of the job now.


A few things I've built

Plated — meal planning app on AWS. Pulls recipes from MealDB, prices ingredients through Walmart's API. Had to build a unit normalization layer because grams and kilograms don't cost the same. Sits at 86% test coverage.

Nest — rental search tool that aggregates Kijiji and Craigslist listings. The overengineered one. Parallel scraping, rate limiting, CI/CD to GKE.


Stack

Languages

Java TypeScript JavaScript C

Frameworks

Spring Boot React Node.js Express

Cloud & DevOps

AWS GCP Docker Kubernetes


📫 LinkedIn · Email

Open to co-op starting fall 2026.

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  1. Plated Plated Public

    A full-stack application aimed to help in saving food, tightening your budget, all while planning interesting, tasteful meals from around the world!

    JavaScript 1

  2. nest nest Public

    A modern apartment finder, and matcher, highly scalable, ensuring you find your dream home!

    TypeScript

  3. Truck-Optimization Truck-Optimization Public

    A shortest-path based algorithm solution aimed to minimize on resources, handling packages, diversions and truck routes.

    C++

  4. MazeHunter MazeHunter Public

    A maze-like game in which you explore, dynamically and strategically use abilities to aid you in exiting.

    Java 1