Syed Daanish Ismail,

Aspiring Software Engineer

About

I’m a software engineer and CS student at UIC passionate about building clean, useful, and scalable applications. My work includes AI projects, full-stack web apps, computer graphics, game development, and systems programming.

Experience

Software Engineering Intern

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank
June 2024 – July 2024
Abu Dhabi, UAE

  • Analyzed 2,000+ demographic and financial records using Python, pandas, and NumPy to generate reports on customer behavior.
  • Improved machine learning model accuracy by 25% through feature engineering and cross-validation across Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, and Random Forest models.
  • Deployed the final model through a Flask REST API with input validation and logging, achieving under 200 ms response time in local testing.
  • Automated preprocessing and evaluation pipelines, improving runtime efficiency by about 40% and making experiment tracking more consistent.

Projects

Qupa

  • AI-powered B2B procurement platform that automates vendor discovery and supplier selection using web-scraped data, LLM-powered recommendations, and relevance filtering.

UICGuessr

  • Location-based web game inspired by GeoGuessr that challenges users to identify places on the UIC campus through interactive map-based gameplay.

Rosso Albesio Website

  • An architecture website I built using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to showcase the firm’s work in a clean and responsive way.

Education

University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science