Mustafa Waqar

MUSTAFA WAQAR ASPIRING AI/ML ENGINEER linkedin.com/mustafa-waqar github.com/MusW02 kaggle.com/mustafa061102 Enthusiastic student with a keen interest in Artificial Intelligence, proficient in Machine Learning, Data Science, and DevOps, with strong analytical skills focused on building and deploying scalable AI solutions EDUCATION Bachelor of Science (B.S) in Artificial Intelligence National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES) GCE A Levels Cedar College GCSE O Levels St. Michael's Convent School Aug 2022 - June 2026 Aug 2019 - July 2021 Aug 2017 - July 2019 PERSONAL PROJECTS Serverless MNIST Digit Recognizer | AWS Lambda, Docker, GitHub Actions, FastAPI, React Built a Serverless DevOps pipeline to deploy an ONNX-optimized computer vision model, automating Docker builds and AWS Lambda updates via GitHub Actions. Urdu-TwoStage-BPE Tokenizer | Python, NLP, Pandas, Regex Developed a script-aware tokenizer for Urdu that significantly reduces token fertility, optimizing LLM context windows and reducing inference costs for low resource languages. Trip26K - Interactive Travel Dashboard | React, TypeScript, Tailwind, EmailJS Developed a multi-page web application featuring dynamic itineraries, expense tracking, and a secure Admin Panel to broadcast automated HTML email alerts via EmailJS. Multi-Species Animal Re-Identification | PyTorch, ConvNeXt, Deep Learning Developed a few-shot learning model using the ConvNeXt architecture for the Animal CLEF25 competition, optimizing feature extraction for fine grained image classification. EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES Runner Up - Data Alchemy (ML Competition), Nexus 2025 Participant - Pro Battle (ML Competition), IBA Participant - AI Showdown, Developers Day, FAST-NUCES Participant - Data Science, PROCOM, FAST-NUCES Participant - Coders Cup, FAST-NUCES Participant - Speed Debugging, Developers Day, FAST-NUCES TECHNICAL SKILLS Languages: Python, C++, C#, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL AI & Data Science: PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, OpenCV, NLP Web & DevOps: ASP.NET MVC, React, FastAPI, Tailwind CSS, Docker, AWS, GitHub Actions, SQL Server