Hi, I'm Siraj.
I’m a software engineer and designer from Boston, MA studying at UIUC.
Software engineer intern at LinkedIn, incoming at Lyft.
Product design for non-profits at Hack4Impact.
Formerly, a startup, AbbVie, and research at Learning and Language Lab.
Projects
Falling Fruit
A progressive web application built for foraging non-profit 'Falling Fruit' with a shared codebase for web and mobile applications.
Startup Directory
A startup directory built by Founders for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
StartupMatch
Developed a Single-Page Application integrating a REST API for a job board servicing startups and students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Terrain Generation
Procedural terrain generator written with C (compiled into WebAssembly) using Perlin2D noise and visualized with HTML5/JavaScript. Prototyped in Python
Writing
Oct 25, 2020
Drop the 'I' and When to Use Prefixes
Clearer naming conventions for a strongly typed web.
May 27, 2020
Why and How to Write Functional JavaScript with ES6
ES6 allows for integration of functional programming in existing JavaScript programs.
Jan 20, 2020
Creating a Job Board for Startups at UIUC
The process of creating a student job board focused on startups at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.