Bashar Zain
Bashar Zain

I build systems that hold up.

Heyooooo. I'm Bashar, an Honours Computer Science student at the University of Waterloo. I build reliable software and infrastructure for real-world applications.

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25K+monthly visits served
60Kimages trained from scratch
3-tierproduction data architecture
bashar@build:~

01const developer = {

02  name: "Bashar Zain",

03  focus: ["backend", "infra"],

04  ships: true,

05  curiosity: Infinity

06};

07› developer.build()

All systems operational
Java
Node.js
Cloud
01Selected work

Built for the real world.

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01Flagship platform

critical.lol

A living web platform for experimental games, real-time party systems, browser AI, procedural 3D horror, and long-form Windows DFIR research.

  • JavaScript
  • Node.js
  • Socket.IO
  • Three.js
  • ONNX
PERSISTENCE3 tiers
02Production system

Vise Network Core

Production infrastructure for a multi-server PvP network: Java 21 services, Redis eventing and hot state, MariaDB durability, and five-second fleet telemetry.

  • Java 21
  • Redis
  • MariaDB
  • HikariCP
7
03Machine learning

MNIST Neural Network

A real 784-128-64-10 network built in pure Java, with its trained weights now running live in the browser.

  • Pure Java
  • Backpropagation
  • 109K+ parameters
04Publishing infrastructure

Announcements Infrastructure

An automated school publishing system that turns Google Drive and Sheets content into a production-ready static site on hourly and daily schedules.

  • Python
  • Google APIs
  • OpenAI
  • Nginx
  • Cloudflare
02Experience

Ownership, end to end.

FOUNDER-LED PLATFORM
Mississauga, ON

Founder & Lead Developer

Stephen Lewis Secondary School Technology Division ↗

Built and operated a full-stack announcements platform adopted by 1,000+ students and 50+ staff, replacing manual publishing with reliable daily automation.

01

Automated announcements, schedules, and content updates through Google Sheets, Google APIs, and AI-generated summaries.

02

Deployed and secured the platform with Nginx, Cloudflare, and VPS infrastructure for 25,000+ monthly visits at peak usage.

03

Owned architecture, development, deployment, maintenance, and coordination with student contributors.

  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • Google APIs
  • Nginx
  • Cloudflare
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INTERNSHIP
Hamilton, St. Catharines & Belleville, ON

Healthcare Software Engineering Intern

Bellesmile Dentistry ↗

Managed digital infrastructure across three dental clinics during a complete IT provider transition, preserving access to websites, domains, mailboxes, and patient-facing services.

01

Migrated domains and imported IMAP mailboxes while maintaining more than 30 WordPress pages.

02

Supported systems handling 32,800+ website visits and over 500,000 emails across clinic locations.

03

Reduced annual technology costs through vendor and hosting consolidation without sacrificing service continuity.

  • WordPress
  • DNS
  • IMAP
  • Cloudflare
  • Infrastructure migration
03Toolbox

From first commit to production traffic.

I work across the stack, with a particular interest in the systems behind responsive, reliable products.

Languages

Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, C++, HTML/CSS

Frameworks

Node.js, Express, React, Flask

Data

MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, Redis

Infrastructure

Linux, Docker, Nginx, Cloudflare, OCI, GCP

Have something worth building?

Let’s make it work.

[email protected] ↗