Backend AI Engineer Intern at FlyRank AI, building APIs with Python and FastAPI. I work across the full stack — front-end interfaces, back-end services, and ML models — and enjoy turning ideas into practical solutions through hands-on projects and hackathons.
I enjoy taking an idea from:
problem → model → API → interface → deployable product
My current focus is on AI engineering, machine learning, backend development, automation, and full-stack applications.
Professional experience gained while working on real-world software and AI-related challenges.
Samsung Innovation Campus — AI/ML, Dubai
Oct 2025 — Nov 2025 · Remote
Participated in a structured AI/ML programme with weekly live sessions covering machine learning fundamentals, model development, and applied project work.
Afzar Consultants LLC - Afzar Hydraulics, Sharjah
Jun 2025 — Jul 2025 · Remote
Worked on a Python-based simulation engine for engineering computations, translating mathematical formulas into backend algorithms and supporting testing, validation, and documentation.
Medulla Productions & Consulting LLC, Sharjah
Aug 2025 — Dec 2025 · Remote
Contributed to SaaS frontend development by building responsive UI components and data-driven interfaces, translating requirements into usable features, and collaborating on testing and code review.
Where ideas get stress-tested.
A collection of challenges where I explored AI, sustainability, education, climate, health, automation, and product innovation.
National Student Competition on Technology and Sustainability - RAK EISC 2026
A gamified sustainability platform designed to turn environmentally friendly actions into measurable impact.
ECO ACTION → USER ENGAGEMENT → MEASURABLE IMPACT
🌱 EISC 2026 · 🏆 WINNER · 🎮 GAMIFICATION · 🌍 SUSTAINABILITY
Create Apps Championship 2025-26
META x Starbucks Student Hackathon 2025
An urban analytics concept focused on understanding and mitigating Urban Heat Island effects in dense environments such as Downtown Dubai.
DATA → ANALYSIS → VISUALISATION → INSIGHT
Built around the intersection of:
AI × Data × Sustainability × Urban Innovation
NASA Space Apps Challenge 2025
A platform for monitoring, analysing and forecasting plant blooming events using Earth-observation data and open datasets.
🏆 LOCAL WINNER · 🌍 GLOBAL NOMINEE · 🏆 HONORABLE MENTION · 🛰️ NASA SPACE APPS 2025
AI · Sustainability · Climate · Education · Health · Automation · Product Innovation
Not just projects. Experiments in turning ideas into systems.
Explainable AI For Breast Cancer Diagnosis
A machine-learning system exploring how predictive models can become more interpretable through explainability techniques.
- MODEL → XGBoost
- EXPLAINER → SHAP
- BACKEND → FastAPI
- FRONTEND → Next.js
- DATABASE → MongoDB Atlas
- INFRASTRUCTURE → Docker
Best model
Accuracy ███████████████████░ 97.37% · AUC ████████████████████ 0.994
→ SHAP explanations → Global feature importance → Clinician-focused interface → Multiple explanation modes
💻 University Project
- Databases & Analytics
- Machine Learning
- Mobile Web App Development
- Artificial Intelligence
- E-Commerce Web Development
- UI-UX App Development
- Programming Project
Exploring ideas beyond the primary mission.
- Student-Performance-AI-Analysis
- Study-Burnout-Detector
- MiniCart
- Python Project
- codealpha tasks
- Personal Portfolio Website - Under Development
Recognition collected along the way.
| YEAR | MISSION | OUTCOME |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | RAK EISC | 🏆 WINNER |
| 2025/26 | Create Apps Championship | 🚀 High-Potential Team |
| 2025 | NASA Space Apps | 🛰️ Local Winner — Ajman |
| 2025 | NASA Space Apps | 🌎 Global Nominee |
| 2025 | NASA Space Apps | 🏅 Honorable Mention |
| 2025 | Samsung Innovation Campus | 🤖 AI Course Participant |
| 2025 | Innovation Hackathon | 🏁 Hackathon Finalist |
| 2023 | Innovation Challenge Program and Growth Summit by FAB | 🏁 Hackathon Finalist |
Training for the next mission.
2 phases ( AWS AI Practitioner Challenge Phase (Mar - June), 'Completed' -> Future AWS AI Programmer Nanodegree Phase, 'Aug 2026 - Present' )
Signals from missions worth remembering.
- Samsung Innovation Campus 2025, Highlights — Featured for participating in the Samsung Innovation Program, celebrated the graduation of 130 students from across the Emirates.
- NASA Space Apps Challenge 2025, Highlights
- RAK EISC 2026
- META X Starbucks Student Hackathon 2025,Dubai
- Innovation Hackathon 2025-OCT,Dubai, Highlights — Featured on the UWL Newsletter 'WIRE' as part of the hackathon event and highlighted our experience as the finalists.
- Create Apps Championship 2025-26,Dubai
- Innovation Challenge Program and Growth Summit by First Abu Dhabi Bank 2023-DEC, Highlights — Featured on the UWL Newsletter 'WIRE' as part of the hackathon event and highlighted our experience as the finalists.
Connecting with ideas, people, and opportunities beyond the mission.
- GISEC GLOBAL 2026,Dubai
- UWL-RAK 'Campus To Corporate' Job Fair by xtwe
- Sharjah Entrepreneurship Festival 2026
- Big 5 Global 2025,Dubai
☕ Debugging teaches patience better than meditation.
🌙 Some of my best ideas appear late at night.
🧠 I learn fastest when I build.
🚀 Hackathons are where ideas get stress-tested.
🔭 Curiosity is probably my most-used dependency.
The mission is not to build more software.
It's to build software that matters.
THASPEEHA VAHITHU
AI × SOFTWARE × CREATIVITY
