Xayna xaynakive
Design Engineer · Frontend · Applied AI/ML · Cybersecurity
Lahore, Pakistan · open to remote roles worldwide and to relocation
profile
Design engineer and final-year Computer Science student who builds end to end, from custom-trained ML models to deployed web products. I care about both halves of a product: what it can do and what it feels like to use. Selected for Hash Engineering’s inaugural Software Engineering Fellowship (1 of 16 from 150+) and founder of a 500+ member student tech community.
education
BS Computer ScienceLahore Garrison University, Lahore
Oct 2023 – Jun 2027 (expected)
- SGPA 3.78 · final-year project in progress
experience
Software Engineering FellowHash Engineering · remote
Aug 2026 – present
- 1 of 16 from 150+ applicants. Building a functional application against an engineering brief in a remote, asynchronous team, shipping through GitHub pull requests and iterating on review feedback.
AI/ML Intern, previously AI/ML ContributorCall Connect AI · remote, UK
Apr 2025 – present
- Developed an NLP emotion-classification model for call-centre transcripts, identifying customer sentiment across multiple emotional categories.
- Systematically tested AI-generated responses and documented edge cases to improve output reliability and model robustness.
Founder & Product DesignerPixelFiles
Nov 2024 – present
- Designed 100+ slides for a retro/VHS-inspired template studio and won its first paying client with a custom investor-pitch deck; I run the visual identity, pricing and client communication.
Web Designer, Developer & Digital Artistindependent
2019 – 2024
- Built commissioned Carrd sites and hand-coded Neocities pages, ran a public Carrd resource hub, and published open-source web projects and an early npm package under earlier aliases.
leadership & community
FounderCS Network
Oct 2024 – present
- Built to 500+ members: a peer-learning community that centralises notes, slides and resources and coordinates technical guidance across the batch.
Campus AmbassadorSOFTEC’26
Feb – May 2026
- Recruited and coordinated 34+ teams for the SOFTEC’26 AI & ML Hackathon as the link between students and organisers.
Founding Community Member, then Campus LeadCyberster
Sep 2025 – Mar 2026
- Completed the inaugural Batch 1 cybersecurity programme (instructor-led training and final assessment), then represented Cyberster as Campus Lead.
Technical Co-HeadIEEE Student Branch
- Led technical programming and events for the university’s IEEE chapter.
selected projects
- Breeze (EmoLens): trained and evaluated six models on a custom ~100k-sample dataset for four-way intent classification, served through a Flask + Groq (LLaMA 3) interface with a deterministic safety layer; found and corrected a critical mislabelling flaw in a public dataset.
- PurrSona: a cat-personality engine running a gradient-boosting model entirely in the browser through ONNX, with no server round-trip.live ↗
- MEOW: an open-source modular website editor that turns guided visual choices into real, exportable websites.source ↗
- MeowTM: a colourful 16-bit ATM simulator written in x86 assembly for emu8086.source ↗
- xaynakive.com: a hand-built interactive portfolio (CSS 3D cube, custom domain on Cloudflare DNS + GitHub Pages).source ↗
skills
- AI / ML
- custom dataset creation & labelling, model training & evaluation, NLP (sentiment & intent classification), ONNX client-side inference, LLaMA 3 via Groq
- Frontend & design
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript, GSAP, SVG, responsive and accessible UI, design systems
- Backend & cloud
- Python, Flask, AWS (S3, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch), GitHub Pages, Cloudflare DNS, DigitalOcean, Azure
- Tools & security
- Git & GitHub (CI workflows), Replit, VAPT and penetration-testing fundamentals
- Certifications & languages
- Claude 101 · English, Urdu