Software Developer · CS @ UConn
Zain Irfan.
I'm a CS student at UConn building at the intersection of software, design, and entrepreneurship — from AI interview tools to Shopify storefronts, AWS apps, and creative side projects that turn into real products.
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I'm a Computer Science student at UConn, in the Honors Program and STEM Scholar Community. I fell for computing as a kid, drawn to the quiet alchemy of turning a few lines of logic into something that moves, calculates, or seems to think on its own. What's kept me here is the way of thinking it demands: clean abstractions, careful reasoning, and the discipline of taking a problem apart and putting it back together correctly.
The projects I'm proudest of have all gone in front of real users. I founded Placed, an AI interview platform now at 50+ weekly active users with paying subscribers; I rebuilt a Shopify storefront that grew 147% year over year; and I founded a coding program in high school that taught 15 students CS fundamentals through Scratch and JavaScript.
Right now I'm scaling Placed, building ClubIt with my cofounders, and developing official UConn sites as a Web Developer. If you're working on something interesting, I'd genuinely like to hear about it.
- Honors Program · UConn STEM Academic Excellence Honors Scholarship
- Treasurer, Music Producers Club
- Coursework Data Structures & Object-Oriented Design, Discrete Systems, Multivariable Calculus
- In progress · Fall 2026 Linear Algebra, Algorithms & Complexity
- Designed, built, and shipped an AI-powered technical interview platform end to end; grew to 50+ weekly active users across five interview tracks
- Built a real-time interview engine combining a Monaco editor, Judge0 sandboxed execution across 8 languages, streaming LLM responses scored against per-track rubrics, and voice interviewing
- Built the billing and abuse-control layer: Stripe subscriptions with webhook-driven entitlements and Postgres-backed per-user quotas across 15 API routes
- Migrated legacy departmental sites onto UConn's new web platform and supported development for the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources using WordPress
- Developed the UConn REINVENT-PT Lab and Department of Natural Resources and the Environment sites
- Shipped a high-school club management platform: a Next.js web app for staff plus a Capacitor iOS app for students; demoed to school administrators
- Built the student feature set — QR check-in for attendance, club elections, group messaging, and an XP and badge rewards system — with iOS push notifications and native Google/Apple sign-in
- Modeled roster and permission data in Postgres behind row-level security so students, advisors, and administrators each reach only their own school's records
- Independently redesigned and rebuilt every page of a Shopify storefront in Liquid, HTML, and CSS
- Store revenue grew $14.8K to $36.6K year over year (Jan-Jun) across the redesign
- Built custom catalog, archive, and downloads functionality
The architecture behind Placed and ClubIt. Click any block to see what it does and what was hard about it.
Internships, freelance work, or just a question about something I've shipped. Drop me a message.