Dawar Waqar

Software Engineer

Canada

2+ Years of Experience

30+ Projects

Professional Experience

Full Stack Developer Intern (Co-op)

Tecsys Inc.

AI & Innovation Team

Jan 2025 – Apr 2025Montreal, CA

Lead Software Engineer

Pakistan State Oil

Largest Energy Company of Pakistan

July 2023 – Jan 2024Lahore, PK

Founding Full Stack Engineer

Market Page

Early-Stage Fintech Startup

Jan 2023 – Jun 2023Amsterdam, NL

Full Stack Developer

Cowlar Design Studio (Y Combinator W17)

Factory Automation Team

Jun 2022 – Dec 2022Islamabad, PK

Full-time Teaching Assistant

LUMS

Advanced Programming Course

Jan 2022 - Jun 2022Lahore, PK

JavaScript Developer Intern

OSA Studio

Game Development Studio

Jul 2021 – Aug 2021Lahore, PK

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Go, Bash, C/C++, SQL, Groovy

Cloud & DevOps

Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), GitLab CI, Jenkins, Linux

Backend

Django, Flask, NodeJS, ExpressJS, Spring Boot, Jest

Frontend

React/NextJS, VueJS, Streamlit, HTML/CSS

Databases

PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB

AI & ML

Scikit-learn, LangChain, NLP, RAG, Anylogic

Education

Master of Applied Computing

University of Windsor

Grade: A

Relevant Coursework:

Networking & Data SecurityNatural Language ProcessingAdvanced Systems ProgrammingInternet Applications & Distributed SystemsApplied Artificial IntelligenceAdvanced Computing ConceptsAdvanced Database TopicsAdvanced Software Engineering

2024 – 2025Canada

BS Computer Science

LUMS

Grade: Graduated with Merit

2018 – 2022Pakistan

Featured Projects

Smart Multi Cloud Tag using AI

Built an open-source Python package enabling automatic multi-cloud file tagging at scale using LLMs, eradicating the need for manual tagging, saving hours of work. Delivered an end-to-end solution that seamlessly reads content, predicts tags, and applies them, enabling one-command automation across cloud storage providers (Azure Blob, AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage).

PythonOpenAIGeminiAnthropicAzureGCPAWSPyPI

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Distributed File System

Created a distributed file system using 3 servers, enabling seamless file management with client-server communication only across a specialized server.

CLinuxSockets

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Predictive Credit-Scoring Engine

Built a Machine Learning pipeline that, after thorough Exploratory Data Analysis and feature engineering (imputation, categorical encoding, normalization), delivers high-accuracy predictions of borrower creditworthiness to streamline loan-approval decisions.

PythonLightGBMXGBoostCatBoostScikit-learnPandas

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Advancing News Summarization

Developed a novel ROUGE-L weighted voting approach, ensembling multiple base text-summarization algorithms to create higher-quality news summaries, achieving a 20% improvement in the top ROUGE score.

NLPScikit-learnNLTKPandasNumPy

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Real Estate Marketplace

Built a tool that scrapes and aggregates property listings from multiple sites, applies user preferences, and displays personalized recommendations.

JavaTypeScriptSpring BootReact

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Surplus Food Rescue Platform

Built a web platform connecting restaurants and NGOs to redistribute surplus food—implementing role-based access, Redis-backed real-time listings, and AWS SNS powered notifications to reduce waste and combat hunger.

TypeScriptPythonDjangoPostgreSQLReactAWS

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Certificates & Awards

Hackathon Winner (Royal Canadian Navy)Industry Project Competition Winner (University of Windsor)DevOps Beginners to Advanced with Projects (Udemy)Learning Hadoop (LinkedIn Learning)Selenium Essential Training (LinkedIn Learning)Hands-On Natural Language Processing (LinkedIn Learning)Agile Testing (LinkedIn Learning)

Other Interests

LeetCode

Travelling

Chess

Coffee

Get In Touch 😀

I'm currently open to new opportunities and collaborations. Feel free to reach out!

📧 dawarwaqar71@gmail.com

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