name: Saniya Hassan
role: Third-year Software Engineering student @ NUST SEECS
focus: Backend systems, infrastructure, and what's underneath them
looking_for: Substantive SWE internships where I can ship things that hold up in productionI like taking a problem from the network stack up to the API and seeing it through β I've built a Trie-indexed C++ search engine over 50,000+ documents, a real-scale 3D space simulator, and I keep live Linux servers running as part of a working engineering team.
Wildfire Detection & Air Pollution Modeling β AI Γ Remote Sensing π₯π°οΈ Research project structuring the wildfire problem space as a causal pipeline β pre-fire risk β active fire detection β smoke/pollution dispersion β downstream health impact β with a core focus on source-to-concentration smoke & air-pollutant modeling.
Software Engineering Intern β Smart Agritech Labs, NSTP Islamabad Β· Jun 2026 β Jul 2026
- Administer production Linux servers β disk usage, storage cleanup, routine maintenance
- Automate operational tasks with Bash scripting; hands-on across the network stack
- Build & maintain backend features in Python (Flask) against live PostgreSQL databases
NASA Space Apps 2025 β Galactic Problem SolverΒ Β·Β Git & GitHubΒ Β·Β Python Crash CourseΒ Β·Β Using Python to Interact with the OSΒ Β·Β AI for Everyone (Coursera / Google)