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About Me

I'm Shams Haroon, a Full Stack Software Engineer and Computer Science student at Ontario Tech University

  • Name: Shams Haroon
  • Location: Toronto, Canada
  • Email: shamsharoon7@gmail.com

5+ Projects completed

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Shopify
Ontario Tech University
Headstarter
Ontario Tech Racing
Pamoja Institute
Trash Tech

Education

Expected Graduation 2027

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Ontario Tech University

Planning to specialize in Data Science and minor in Math.

Experience

May 2025-August 2025

Shopify

Software Engineer Intern

Built a webhook proxy system that processed over $8B and cut API calls by 20%, and architected multi-shop billing event aggregation that prevented 1M+ duplicate charges and enabled $100M+ in revenue while delivering a P2 billing project.

Sept 2024-May 2025

University of Toronto

AI/ML Research Project Assistant

Shipped an interactive React UI for real-time NLP parameter tuning that reduced training time by 15%, integrated Hugging Face models with RLHF and annotator feedback to lift translation accuracy, and built dashboards that sped error analysis by 12%.

Sept 2024-May 2025

Ontario Tech Racing

Software Developer

Developed a CFD comparison dashboard that streamlined simulation analysis by 10% and optimized the codebase to cut troubleshooting time by 30%.

July 2024-Sept 2024

Headstarter AI

Software Engineer Fellow

Built an AI scheduling tool adopted by 100+ fellows, fixed 20+ backend bugs to reduce API failures, and helped the team ship faster under weekly sprints by boosting delivery speed 25%.

July 2024-Sept 2024

Pamoja Institute

Cloud and Application Developer

I conduct Android application testing and develop cloud solutions with Microsoft Azure, Power Apps, Dataverse, improving functionality for small communities.

Dec 2024-May 2025

TDM Web Solutions

Senior Software Developer

Led the development of scalable web applications using React, TypeScript, and Node.js, optimizing performance and user experience while mentoring junior developers and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions.

Skills

React | Azure | SQL | Java | CSS | Figma | Docker | Github | NextJS | Firebase | Tailwind | Javascript | Django | HTML | C | C++ | Flask | Java | Python | OpenAI API | ThreeJS

Awards & Certificates

2023 Fall & 2024 Winter

President's Roll Distinction

Ontario Tech University

Achieving a GPA of 3.9+.

2024

CS50x Certificate

Harvard University

Certificate for completion of the Harvard Intro to Computer Science Course.

2024

2x Hackathon Winner

HackHive 2024 & HackHive 2025

Sponsored by Dayforce and Microsoft. Won prizes such as Gift Cards, Microsoft Products, Coffee Chats with Microsoft Professionals, a Tour of the Microsoft Toronto Office, and received Microsoft referrals, technical interviews with Dayforce, and monetary rewards.

Services

Services

Projects

Projects

Check out my Work

TrashTech

Computer Vision Recycling Companion

Verbal Voyage

Translation App For Travelling

Hand Gestured Volume Control

Detect hand position and distance between fingers for accurate volume control

I'm Available for freelancing

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Contact

Contact Me

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Location

Toronto, Canada

LinkedIn

Shams Haroon

Instagram

@shams.haroonn

Email Address

shamsharoon7@gmail.com