About Me

Hey! I'm Asrar. I write code at TrendAI by day, build RAG systems by night, and argue with LLMs somewhere in between.

I'm doing my Honours BSc in Computer Science at Lakehead University with a 3.7 GPA — made the Dean's List and got a Tamblyn Merit Scholarship, which mostly means I traded sleep for grades.

Day to day, I build features for the Cloud One platform in Java, wrangle CI/CD pipelines, and once delivered a report generator to a customer in just 3 days, helping close an enterprise deal. Before that, I interned at an aviation company where I built a flight scheduler that cut errors by 40% — turns out spreadsheets aren't great at managing aircraft maintenance.

On my own time, I build AI projects because I genuinely find it fun (yes, really). My System Design Assistant indexes 11K+ chunks with hybrid retrieval and gets 79% recall at sub-100ms latency. I also trained a CNN to detect pneumonia from chest X-rays with a 0.91 AUC.

Outside of code, I volunteer at Code4kids, teaching Python to 30+ kids. Explaining recursion to a 14-year-old is harder than any LeetCode problem, trust me.