Open to software engineering internships

Aakash Munawar

Building software from database to deployment.

I'm a Computer Science student at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. My projects cover the whole path: schema design, APIs, interfaces, algorithms checked against brute force, and live deployments on Vercel and Render.

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Aakash Munawar

Computer Science student
Rutgers–New Brunswick

Seeking: Software engineering internshipsAlso open to full-stack, AI/ML and data roles
Award: Best Regeneron EntryHackRU 2026 · team project, Protocol Pre-Flight
Focus: Full-stack · AI · Data science
Shipped: 6 projects, 3 live demosSource code for every one

~480K
Chicago incident records in a normalized SQL schema
Chicago Crime Explorer
41
JUnit tests passing, with the matcher checked against brute force
Study Group Matcher
5.9×
faster than brute force on a five-course schedule search
Schedule Builder
13
tables in a hand-written 3NF PostgreSQL schema
OpsTrack

Selected work

Projects I've built, and how they work

For each project: the problem, what I built, and the result I measured. Live demos are linked where they exist; the rest are command-line tools or work in progress, with source available.

Protocol Pre-Flight

Changing a clinical trial protocol after the trial starts is expensive, and many of those changes are avoidable. Pre-Flight reviews a protocol before the trial begins. It flags missing sections, numbers that contradict each other and heavy patient burden, ties every finding to the page that supports it, and lets a person accept or reject each one.

My contribution

The upload pageWhere a reviewer submits a protocol PDF to start a review.
The PDF review workspaceEach finding is highlighted on the page it cites, so the reviewer can check the evidence in place.
The typed API layerA TypeScript client that connects the frontend to the team's FastAPI backend.

My teammates built the backend, which handles parsing, rule checks and the AI review.

My stack

Next.js
React
TypeScript
Tailwind CSS

Live demo Team source code

protocol.pdf● Review

Contradiction

Missing section

Patient burden

Needs review

Illustration

Solo project · Full-stackLive demo

Study Group Matcher

Finding classmates who share your courses and are free at the same times is mostly guesswork. This web app matches Rutgers students into study groups by both.

What I built

A Spring Boot REST API with stateless JWT sign-in, BCrypt passwords and group rules enforced on the server
A matching algorithm written from scratch: free time is stored as sorted intervals and intersected with a linear two-pointer merge
A plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript frontend, with a one-click demo account in an isolated sandbox

ResultMatched an independent brute-force model on 3,000 random schedule pairs and 1,575 ranked recommendations. All 41 JUnit tests pass.

Java
Spring Boot
Spring Security
PostgreSQL
JPA
Flyway
JUnit

Live demo Source

Click "Try the demo" to log in. The free-tier API can take about a minute to wake up.

Solo project · DataLive demo

Chicago Crime Explorer

Two years of Chicago police incident data is public, but exploring it means writing SQL. This dashboard makes it filterable in the browser.

What I built

A normalized SQLite schema designed from the city's flat CSV, with foreign-key and row-count checks on load
A FastAPI backend that reuses the notebook's own queries.sql, adding filters as bound SQL parameters
A Chart.js dashboard filtered by date, category, district, community area, arrests and domestic incidents

ResultServes 478,089 incident records (Sept 2024 – Aug 2026). 19 API tests confirm unfiltered results match the notebook exactly.

Python
SQL
SQLite
FastAPI
pandas
Jupyter
Chart.js

Live dashboard Source Notebook

Solo project · AlgorithmsCommand-line tool

Schedule Builder

Five courses with several sections each can add up to over two million possible weekly schedules, far too many to check by hand.

What I built

A backtracking search written from scratch that drops a partial schedule at its first time conflict
Ranking by fewest days on campus, fewest gaps, latest start or fewest campus switches, over real Fall 2026 Rutgers sections

ResultOn a five-course search it never generates 87% of the 2.26 million combinations and runs 5.9× faster than brute force. 18 tests confirm both find identical schedules.

Python
Backtracking
Standard library only

Source Example runs

Solo project · AlgorithmsCommand-line tool

Campus Route Finder

Rutgers–New Brunswick is spread across campuses on both sides of the Raritan River, so the shortest walk between two buildings isn't always obvious.

What I built

Dijkstra's algorithm and a binary-heap priority queue, both implemented from scratch
A graph of 24 real OpenStreetMap locations, where cross-river routes go over the Landing Lane Bridge

ResultEvery route matches an independent Floyd–Warshall computation, checked for every pair of locations.

Python
Graphs
Dijkstra
unittest
matplotlib

Source Example route map

Solo project · BackendIn progress

OpsTrack

An internal operations platform for a fictional police department, covering officers, units, assignments, patrols and incidents. It's built to practice relational design and careful migrations, with synthetic data only.

What I built

A hand-written 3NF PostgreSQL 16 schema: 13 tables, 8 enum types, and CHECK, unique and partial-unique constraints
A FastAPI REST API for all 13 resources, where database rule violations return clear 409 Conflict errors
Next: authentication, a full test suite, and a React and TypeScript frontend

ResultThe Alembic migration reproduces the hand-written schema exactly, verified with a pg_dump diff.

Python
FastAPI
PostgreSQL
SQLAlchemy
Alembic
Docker

Source

Earlier work, including a Spring Boot task API and Java desktop apps, is on GitHub(opens in a new tab)

About

A CS student who likes finishing things

I'm a Computer Science student at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. I started my CS coursework at Raritan Valley Community College before transferring.

I like building complete applications: designing the database, writing the backend API, building the interface, and working out the algorithm in between. So far that has meant a Spring Boot app with JWT authentication, a SQL dashboard over nearly 480,000 public records, and graph and backtracking algorithms written from scratch.

I also try to show that my work is correct, not just that it runs. Where I can, I check an algorithm against a simpler brute-force version and write down what I measured and how.

I'm still early in AI and machine learning, and I learn something new with every project. I'm looking for a software engineering internship where I can keep building alongside people further along than I am.

Education

Rutgers University–New BrunswickComputer Science
Raritan Valley Community CollegeComputer Science coursework, before transferring

Interests

Software engineering
Full-stack development
AI & machine learning Learning
Data science

Skills

Tools I've shipped with

Each group lists the projects where I actually used these tools.

Languages

Java
Python
SQL
TypeScript
JavaScript
HTML & CSS

Used in: every project on this page

Backend & APIs

Spring Boot
Spring Security
JWT
JPA
FastAPI
SQLAlchemy
REST

Used in: Study Group Matcher, OpsTrack, Chicago Crime Explorer

Databases

PostgreSQL
SQLite
Schema design
Flyway
Alembic

Used in: Study Group Matcher, OpsTrack, Chicago Crime Explorer

Frontend

React
Next.js
Tailwind CSS
Chart.js

Used in: Protocol Pre-Flight (React, Next.js, Tailwind), Study Group Matcher, Chicago Crime Explorer

Data & algorithms

pandas
Jupyter
matplotlib
Backtracking
Dijkstra
Binary heaps
Interval merging

Used in: Chicago Crime Explorer, Schedule Builder, Campus Route Finder, Study Group Matcher

Testing & shipping

JUnit
pytest
unittest
Git & GitHub
Docker
Maven
Vercel
Render

Used in: JUnit in Study Group Matcher, pytest in OpsTrack, unittest in the Python projects; Docker for OpsTrack and Study Group Matcher; live demos on Vercel and Render

Coursework

Data Structures
Algorithms
Computer Architecture
Discrete Math
Databases

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