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About Me

• 🔭 Currently building SurgeAI — an AI-powered product validation & marketing platform
• 🌱 Mastering Spring Boot & the Spring Ecosystem (Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Data JPA)
• 💬 Ask me about Full Stack Development, FastAPI, NLP Pipelines, or System Design
• 🤝 Open Source Contributor at Appwrite (55k+ ⭐)
• 📫 Reach me at zafaraay@gmail.com
• ⚡ Fun fact: I love solving real-world problems that affect real people

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🌐 Connect

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🛠️ Tech Stack

Languages

Frontend

Backend

Databases

ML / AI

Infrastructure & Tools

📌 Featured Projects

🚀 SurgeAI — AI-Powered Product Validation & Marketing Platform

Scrapes Reddit, Twitter & Quora in real-time, runs NLP sentiment analysis & topic modelling, and generates an idea validation score for entrepreneurs.

• Tech: Next.js · FastAPI · Celery · Redis · PyTorch · Docker
• Highlights: Async scraping pipeline for large-scale data processing; fully containerised for production

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🛒 ShelfSense — Full-Stack POS & Inventory Platform

A POS and inventory dashboard for independent grocery retailers, handling both weight-based and packaged goods — deployed to a live local store.

• Tech: React · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · Tailwind CSS
• Highlights: Dual-tracking inventory algorithm with real-time low-stock alerts and sales analytics

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📚 Organest — Productivity Platform with AI Plagiarism Detection

A full-stack student productivity platform with JWT auth, MFA, and an AI plagiarism checker supporting PDF/DOCX/TXT uploads.

• Tech: React · Node.js · Express · MongoDB · JWT
• Highlights: Paragraph-level similarity scoring via Google Custom Search API; deployed on Vercel & Render

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💡 A Quote I Live By

"First, solve the problem. Then, write the code." — John Johnson

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