B.Sc. Software Engineering · Potsdam
I'm Saad, a software engineering student at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences in Potsdam. I build working products in Python, explain them in plain language, and keep the team in a good mood while we ship.
About
Python is home base. If I can sketch an idea, I can usually ship it. Java covers my backend work, C++ my parallel programming, and machine learning is where the two things I enjoy most (building and figuring things out) overlap.
The part that doesn't show up in a repo: I like presenting, and I've gotten good at reading a room. A course called Employability: Business English turned out to be less about English and more about handling people well. Group projects go smoother when someone actually cares about the vibe. That's usually me.
When Computer Architecture lectures didn't click, I worked through the material myself, from logic gates up, and finished the course comfortably.
Statistics was never going to be my favorite subject. I studied like it was, and it paid off.
I can walk a non-technical person through complex code without losing them. It's made me the default demo-giver in every group project so far.
Technical arsenal
Tools listed in order of how often they save the day.
My strongest tool by a distance. Frontends, backends, scripts, client–server apps: whatever the idea needs, Python gets it standing. Clean enough that teammates can pick up where I left off.
I design sites to look good and then ship them myself: build, deploy, point the domain, sort out the DNS. You are looking at an example — hand-written HTML, CSS and JavaScript, live on Vercel under its own domain.
Purpose-built models, from the two healthcare projects featured below to smaller ones made purely for fun. Sharpened in the Machine Learning & Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence courses.
Connecting a site to a real database, having it send its own email, and keeping the whole thing running from my side. The contact form below stores to Postgres and sends confirmations through Resend, with unsubscribe links and spam protection built in.
Java for backend services, written with full effort and easy handovers in mind. C++ for parallel programming, where I pay attention to the logic and what it costs at runtime.
Hands-on IT for a logistics and warehousing company and its trading business: their databases, their network and their software. Keeping the systems a working business depends on running, and fixing them when they are not.
Comfortable filtering and shaping large datasets until they answer a real question. Trained in quantitative and qualitative methods, so my reports come with the data to back them up.
Featured projects
Course projects, treated like real products.
A full web platform for running a gym: member accounts, plans, and day-to-day operations. Frontend and backend written in Python, talking to a live server, with member-facing touches like workout plan views and voting on class times.
Team build from Software Engineering I: a tool restaurant managers use to organize staff and run training. We had one rule for every design decision: a shift lead should learn it in one sitting, no manual.
A machine learning model that categorizes patient records by smoking status and age group. Accuracy mattered, and so did explainability: it's built so someone outside ML can follow why it decides what it decides.
A complete logistic regression pipeline on 8,763 patient records from Kaggle: blood-pressure feature engineering, stratified splitting, leak-free scaling, and balanced class weights. Exploration flagged the dataset as synthetic (every feature correlation under 0.02), so the honest finding is methodological: a correct pipeline can't invent signal that isn't there.
Business acumen
Software gets built inside companies. I've studied how those work too.
Running lean: tight scoping, fast decisions, and keeping a small team moving without burning anyone out.
How larger organizations actually run: delegation, office functions, and what makes a team gel.
Reading market needs and turning them into presentations people act on.
Privacy
Short version: I keep what you type in the contact form so I can reply to you, and nothing else. No tracking, no analytics, no advertising, and nothing sold to anyone.
Your name and email address, because I need them to write back.
Your phone number and anything you write about yourself, if you choose to fill those in. Both are optional and the form works without them.
To answer you. That is the only reason.
I do not send newsletters or marketing. You get one confirmation when you submit the form, and then only a direct reply from me.
In a database hosted by Neon on servers in Frankfurt, Germany.
Two other services touch it: Resend delivers the email, and Vercel runs the site. Neither uses your details for anything of their own.
I am the only person with access.
Every email I send has an unsubscribe link at the bottom. One click and your row is deleted outright — name, phone and message included. Not hidden or flagged, actually removed.
You can also just email me and I will do it by hand.
I keep your details until you ask me to remove them. If you would like to know what I hold on you, ask and I will tell you. Written in plain language rather than legal language — if something here is unclear, email me and I will explain it properly.