Decentralized Social Network
A federated network where independent servers share posts, follows, likes and comments through REST APIs, with public and private visibility.
github.com/IFDES
University of Alberta
CS Specialization
Ali Zain Malik
Software Engineer
Edmonton, Canada · linkedin.com/in/ali-zain-malik · alizainkmalik@gmail.com
Projects
Things I have built for courses and on my own.
Mood Management App
An Android app for tracking mood over time, with Firestore queries tuned to run about 20% faster.
Full-Stack Movie App
A responsive movie browser whose Express backend proxies the TMDB API so the key never reaches the client.
CNN Image Classification
Convolutional networks built from scratch in PyTorch, then diagnosed with loss curves and confusion matrices.
Twitter Model
A predictive model for analysing user sentiment and tweet patterns, with SQLite storage and data pipelines.
Object Rendering
Anti-aliasing and supersampling to improve render quality, using pointer-based data structures in C.
Experience
Where I have worked and taught.
Data Analyst Co-op
ATCO GasBuilt a star schema on Databricks and four Power BI dashboards, cutting manual reporting time by 25%.
Teaching Assistant
University of Alberta, CMPUT 174Helped 120+ students with debugging and problem-solving, and gave feedback on assignments.
Co-President
Ismaili Students AssociationLed a 14-member executive team that ran large campus events.
Sales Associate
Windermere Chrysler Dodge Jeep RamTurned customer requirements into structured solutions and cut processing time by about 15%.
Who I Am
My missionHi Everyone :), my name is Ali Zain Malik (yes you read that right, maybe I do share a similar name to a particular One Direction Member 🤔). I am a Computer Science Specialization student at the University of Alberta and an aspiring software engineer. I enjoy taking problems and solving them using creative and efficient approaches. I also am very passionate about sports and love to play soccer.