Shayan Poigai
I'm a third-year computer science student at Santa Clara University, interested in software development — specifically backend work for AI applications. Right now I'm a forward deployed engineer intern at Countera and doing graph neural network research.
Featured Work
SceneSafe
September - October 2026Places an ad in the film scene that suits it and blocks the scenes an advertiser can't be seen next to, across 35 public-domain films — 49.9 hours of video.
Searching the library costs ~40× less than checking every frame — 403 → 10 seconds of compute per hour of video, with 179,545 frames in FAISS answering in 0.25 ms. Pricing the pipeline at ~$227 per 1,000 hours showed where the money actually goes: the models are 93% of it, the frame search 1.5%.
Fusion Bench
September 2026Three progressively optimized FP32 softmax kernels in CUDA C++, benchmarked on an NVIDIA A100.
Nsight Compute counters show the speedup matches the DRAM traffic reduction to within 2% — and pinpoint where that model breaks: on L2-resident shapes, moving fewer bytes actually ran slower.
WikiPatrol
October 2026A TypeScript + Kafka pipeline that reads every English Wikipedia edit the second it happens, and rides out a connection drop every 2–17 minutes without losing an edit or counting one twice.
About 78% of the edits Wikipedia reverts aren't vandalism, so judging intent was the wrong target — the project now predicts reverts instead.
Experience
Forward Deployed Engineer Intern
August 2026 - PresentCountera
Built and operated an AI data enrichment pipeline that processed 2,409 records across 372 sources, resolving the correct source page for 95.7%.
Software Engineering Intern
June 2026 — August 2026HerbsPro
10 week Summer internship program where I developed backend features for the HerbsPro E-commerce web application
Founding Software Engineer
May 2026 — PresentAdorus (adorusjewels.com)
Adorus started as an idea between siblings. My sister and I co-founded it, split the work by what we're each good at, and agreed on one thing: build something we'd actually be proud to put our name on.
CS Teaching Assistant & Algorithms Grader
Sept 2025 — June 2026Santa Clara University
Mentored 40+ students in C++ — memory management, pointers, and OOP — and debugged logic errors live using GDB.
Research
Graph Neural Networks & NLP Research Assistant
Sept 2026 — PresentSanta Clara University
Built a GATv2 graph neural network in PyTorch Geometric that spots when someone is becoming emotionally dependent on an AI assistant, reaching 96% accuracy on a held-back test set — about 4 points above the versions without the graph, with every margin holding up under resampling rather than resting on one lucky split.
Machine Learning Research Assistant
Dec 2025 — June 2026Santa Clara University
Spent six months studying what people actually think about LLMs as a therapeutic tool, not what they say in surveys, but what they say to each other, unprompted, across mental-health communities on Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube.
Skills
Languages
- C++
- Python
- Java
- JavaScript
- SQL
- LaTeX
Frameworks & Libraries
- React.js
- Node.js
- FastAPI
- Spring Boot
- Qt
- Pandas
- Matplotlib
- Qiskit
AI & Data
- PostgreSQL
- DynamoDB
- ChromaDB
- MCP
- LangChain
- Ollama
- OpenWebUI
- Topic Modeling
- NumPy
Cloud & Tooling
- Docker
- Linux
- CI/CD
- AWS
- Vercel
- Render
- Hotjar
- IBM Quantum
- Claude Code
About
B.S. in Computer Science, Santa Clara University · Expected Fall 2027
- Basketball
- Trying new sports
- Eating out & trying new foods
- Movies & TV
- Gaming (GTA 6 countdown)
- Studying Bay Area Real Estate
Now
- Adorus - adorusjewels.comImplementing social analytics dashboard to assist with marketing.
- AI projects for CounteraWorking on multimodal LLM workflows.
- Project WorkRecently wrapped up Fusion Bench and Swing Stock Analysis
- Prepping for NBA Fantasy Draft
- Waiting on GTA 6
Contact
- Emailspoigai21@gmail.com
- LinkedInin/shayanpoigai
- GitHubspoigai21
- LeetCodeu/shapoi