Computing Science Honours · University of Alberta

Hey! I'm Hassan Mohammed.

Incoming @ CGI Inc.

I'm Hassan, a fourth-year CS student at UAlberta.

My work spans scalable full-stack applications, data pipelines, and compiler design. I've shipped a hyperlocal commerce platform with ~70k lines of code leading a team of 7, done undergraduate research in pose estimation, and won a hardware hackathon.

I pick up new domains quickly and care deeply about getting the details right.

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Work

Experience

Internships, research, and upcoming roles

Incoming Full Stack Developer Co-op
CGI Inc.
April 2026 - Present
Edmonton, AB
Software Engineer Intern
Near Buy Goods
Jan 2026 - Apr 2026
Edmonton, AB
- Architected and delivered a full-stack software ( 70k LOC), leveraging geospatial queries (PostGIS) and optimized APIs to handle high-volume product search and location-based queries with low latency.
- Designed an async bulk-ingestion pipeline (Celery + Redis) that lets retailers upload thousands of products at once with AI-assisted field mapping and live progress updates without blocking the main request thread.
- Maintained a 921-test suite (595 backend + 326 frontend) integrated into a CI/CD pipeline that automatically ran tests, built the APK, and deployed to a live production server on every merge.
Project Management Intern
XposureNow Technology
Jan 2026 - Jan 2026
Edmonton, AB
- Led a team of 3 students and coordinated with the client to deliver the project on time and aligned with expectations.
- Designed a web application prototype in Figma, creating user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity UI designs.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
University of Alberta
May 2025 - Aug 2025
Edmonton, AB
- Designed and built an automated data-quality pipeline monitoring 13 pose categories across 10 participants, flagging coverage gaps before they reached model evaluation and preventing wasted training runs.
- Built a 3D mesh and joint visualization tool adopted by the research supervisor as the primary interface for reviewing markerless tracking outputs, replacing ad-hoc manual inspection.
- Benchmarked 4 pose-estimation models against real-world workloads and delivered a trade-off analysis that directly determined which model the team shipped to production.
Software Engineer in Test Intern
Scale AI
Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
Remote
- Reviewed 300+ pull requests across multiple codebases to understand system behavior deeply enough to write regression tests that caught real bugs before they reached production.
- Rewrote 500+ task specifications and test cases for AI agents, lifting success rates by∼30% demonstrating that clear, well-scoped requirements matter as much as the code itself.
- Reverse-engineered undocumented code changes to reconstruct expected behavior, turning ambiguous fixes into reproducible test scenarios that improved long-term test coverage.

Community

Volunteer

Teaching and student organizations

Sep 2024 - Dec 2024
Ada's Team
Computing Science tutor
Volunteer tutoring for introductory computing science: helping students build confidence with core concepts, debugging, and coursework so the material clicks outside the lecture hall.
Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
University of Alberta Aerial Robotics Group (UAARG)
Software Developer - Autopilot
Worked on Voyager, a drag-and-drop drone programming app that lets operators compose instruction sequences visually instead of hand-writing low-level flight code. The tool focuses on an approachable UI, real-time feedback on the planned path, customizable movement commands, one-click execution, and save/load for reusable missions - aimed at members with a mix of technical backgrounds while still supporting serious automation.

School

Education

Upper-year coursework that backs the kind of work on this site.

B.Sc. in Computing Science (Honours)

University of Alberta · Edmonton, AB

Sep 2022 – May 2027

Selected coursework

CMPUT 301 - Introduction to Software Engineering
CMPUT 404 - Web Applications and Architecture
CMPUT 291 - Introduction to File and Database Management
CMPUT 379 - Operating System Concepts
CMPUT 204 - Algorithms I
CMPUT 355 - Games, Puzzles, Algorithms
CMPUT 267 - Machine Learning I
CMPUT 366 - Search and Planning in Artificial Intelligence
CMPUT 333 - Security in a Networked World
CMPUT 229 - Computer Organization and Architecture I
CMPUT 401 - Software Process and Product Management

Builds

Projects

FireGuard

HackED 2025 Hardware Winner

Real-time fire detection and classification on Raspberry Pi: servo scanning, YOLOv8 trained on a Roboflow dataset, and voice-guided safety cues over a speaker.

Python
YOLOv8
Raspberry Pi
OpenCV

GitHub →

Near Buy Goods

Hyperlocal commerce platform (~70k LOC) with 50+ REST APIs, PostGIS proximity search, Celery + Redis bulk ingestion with AI-assisted mapping, and a 921-test CI pipeline that builds the Android APK and deploys Dockerized production.

Django
React Native
Redis
Celery
Docker
PostgreSQL
OpenAI

Demo video →

FocusBoost

natHACKS 2024 rehabilitation track: real-time focus signals from EEG (BioAmp EXG Pill + Arduino) into an Electron shell, with adaptive content skipping on heavy sites when focus drops.

Arduino
Electron
Node.js

GitHub →

EagleEye

Real-time CCTV-style feed with YOLOv8 object detection for live scene understanding.

Python
OpenCV
YOLOv8

GitHub →

Relay

Federated social platform inspired by ActivityPub: React + Vite frontend, Django REST API, Dockerized and deployed on Cybera cloud infrastructure.

React
Django
PostgreSQL
Docker
Vite

GitHub →Demo video →

Gazprea Compiler

Full compiler pipeline from lexing through AST to x86-64 assembly: scoped variables, structured control flow, and two-pass codegen for accurate stack sizing.