Saamiyah Ali

I adore nothing more than getting my hands on creatively built solutions that will hopefully have a positive impact on the future of our world.

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NAME Saamiyah Ali
PROGRAM Computer Science & Engineering at UCLA
LOCATION Bay Area, CA

02 — BUILDS

Selected Projects

01

Underwater Robot

Mechanical Lead · ENGR 1UW · Fall 2025

Led design and manufacturing for a 3-person team building a remotely operated underwater vehicle. Designed mounting systems for thrusters, camera, and tethering, and worked on electrical assembly including soldering.

CAD Design Electrical Assembly Team Lead
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02

Line-Following Car

Co-lead · ECE 3 · Spring 2026

A robot that runs a track on just IR sensing. Eight reflectance sensors are individually calibrated, feeding a hand-tuned PD controller.

Embedded C PD Control Sensor Calibration
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03

Supermileage - Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle

Structures Member · Fall 2025 – Fall 2026

Worked on manufacturing a hydrogen fuel cell car using CNC-machined foam molds. Executed wet carbon fiber layups and resin infusionfor structural integrity and aerodynamic efficiency

CNC Machining Carbon Fiber CAD
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04

Smart Adaptive Alarm Clock

Solo Build · Spring 2026 – Present

Building an end-to-end IoT alarm clock that works backward from tomorrow's first task to the latest moment it's still safe to wake up. Uses an ESP32 with a scrollable menu, LED time indicator, and snooze button. A nightly Cloud function pulls the day's schedule, queries the Google Maps Distance Matrix API for live-traffic travel time, and a separate web app manages the weekly schedule and any overrides.

ESP32 Firmware Firebase Cloud Functions Google Maps API
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05

Autonomous Robotics Competitions

Team Lead · Garbage Truck & Fire-Fighting Robots, 2020–21

Directed 3–4 person teams building autonomous robots with Arduino, incorporating thermal and color sensors with maze-solving navigation algorithms. Secured 1st and 2nd place finishes for accuracy, line-following, and fire-extinguishing efficiency.

Arduino Python Sensors
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06

STEMinist Analyzer

Co-Lead · EmpowHER Hackathon, July 2024

Designed, architected, and programmed a C++ application using custom data structures to analyze and visualize gender representation trends across academic publications.

C++ Data Structures Data Viz
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07

Bruin Escape - 3D Platformer Game

Co-Lead · CS 174A · Winter 2026

A third-person platformer game where Joe Bruin skates the hallways of Boelter Hall to reach the final floor, built in Three.js. Modeled the Boelter hallway and built the segment-recycling loop, implemented the per-frame bounding-box collision system, and the per-floor objective progression.

Three.js · WebGL Collision Detection Procedural Level Loop
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08

UCLA Syllabi Archive

Frontend Developer · CS 35L · Winter 2026

A searchable archive where UCLA students upload past course syllabi and self-reported grades, which add to a per-course grade distribution. On a 5-person team I owned the React 19 + Vite frontend.

React 19 · Vite JWT Auth REST API Layer
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03 — RECORD

Experience

2026 – Present

Contributor

Specific Specialists

Contribute to ongoing AI data-platform projects, training text-to-speech (TTS) data models.

2025 – 2026

Fabrication & Design Member

ASME

Mastered advanced 3D modeling in SolidWorks to develop and test personal mechanical projects, while learning how to build circuits and prototype electronic systems.

2024 – 2025

MESA STEM Tutor

Las Positas College

Provided weekly academic coaching in calculus, physics, and computer science for engineering students.

2021 – 2025

Digital Marketing Lead & Mentor

MHMA

Unified brand identity across digital platforms, driving a 200% increase in social media engagement, while teaching lesson plans centered on teamwork and personal growth.

04 — MATERIALS & SPEC

Skills & Tools

Languages

  • Python
  • C / C++
  • JavaScript
  • Swift
  • VS Code · Eclipse

Hardware & Embedded

  • Arduino · ESP32
  • Circuit Design & Soldering
  • CNC Manufacturing
  • Robotics

CAD & Fabrication

  • SolidWorks · Onshape
  • 3D Printing & Modeling
  • Carbon Fiber Layup
  • Canva

Web & Cloud

  • React · Vite · React Router
  • Three.js / WebGL
  • REST APIs · JWT Auth
  • Firebase · CI/CD · Terraform
  • Linux/Unix · Git · Xcode

AI & Emerging Tech

  • LLMs · Agentic AI (MCP, A2A)
  • Claude Code · Gemini · Kiro
  • Quantum & Post-Quantum Crypto
  • Claude Certified Architect — Foundations

Coursework

  • Data Structures & Algorithms
  • Operating Systems
  • Assembly
  • Computer Graphics