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πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Faizan Khan

Software Engineering Β· FinTech Systems Β· AI/ML Infrastructure

Computer Science student at Brooklyn College, Teaching Assistant, and Research Assistant building backend services, real-time data pipelines, and explainable ML applications.

Open to software engineering internships across backend systems, data engineering, AI/ML infrastructure, and FinTech.

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🏦 FinTech Projects

Project Stack Description
Quantitative Trading Framework Backtrader Β· QuantStats Β· yfinance Β· Plotly Dash Research benchmark for momentum and mean-reversion strategies across a 4-year backtest with walk-forward validation and transaction costs. Sharpe 0.74.
Credit Risk Scoring Engine XGBoost Β· SHAP Β· FastAPI Β· Docker Β· Google Cloud Run Project benchmark for loan-default prediction using 307K records, ROC-AUC 0.7795, a deployed REST API, and explainable SHAP outputs.
Fraud Detection Engine Kafka Β· Redis Β· XGBoost Β· FastAPI Β· PostgreSQL Streaming fraud-scoring benchmark with ROC-AUC 0.98, 89% benchmark recall, and 2ms warm scoring latency. Built solo in 8 weeks.

Metrics are project benchmarks measured in development or evaluation environments, not production guarantees.


πŸ’Ό Experience

  • Research Assistant β€” Brooklyn College

    • Built Python ETL and ML workflows with validation, schema enforcement, and anomaly detection.
    • Worked on extracting structured data from unstructured narratives.
  • Teaching Assistant β€” Brooklyn College

    • Support instruction in cybersecurity, web development, AI foundations, and data science.
    • Help students debug projects and translate complex technical concepts into practical solutions.
  • Full Stack Software Engineering Intern β€” InZone Inc.

    • Built distributed backend services with Node.js, Express, Docker, and GCP.
  • Software Engineering Intern β€” AutoLake LLC

    • Improved API consistency and contributed to security auditing across web applications.

🌱 Activities

  • Project Alpaca
  • Brooklyn College Computer Science Club
  • CUNY Tech Prep

πŸ”₯ Tech Stack

FinTech & ML

Python XGBoost Pandas Kafka Redis SHAP

Backend & APIs

FastAPI Node.js Go Docker

Frontend

React Next.js TypeScript Tailwind CSS

Database & Cloud

PostgreSQL MongoDB Google Cloud Vercel


πŸš€ Currently

  • Building β€” Quantitative trading systems with walk-forward validation
  • Reading β€” Advances in Financial Machine Learning by Marcos LΓ³pez de Prado
  • Exploring β€” Reliable real-time market-data pipelines with TimescaleDB and kdb+

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