Saniya Hassan
Saniya Hassan
NUST · NASA Space Apps 2025 Global Nominee
Software engineering student at NUST Islamabad. I like building things from the ground up: a trie-indexed search engine over 5K papers, a 3D solar-system visualizer for NASA Space Apps, a full-stack visitor management platform. Looking for a summer 2026 internship.
A few things I've shipped. NASA-data asteroid viewer, a from-scratch search engine running on Azure, and a full-stack visitor management platform, to start.
3D Solar System and near-Earth asteroid visualizer
Team build for NASA Space Apps 2025. A real-scale 3D simulator for planetary bodies and near-Earth asteroids, with a free-fly camera and live orbital data feeding into the scene.
Rendered in real scale
30,000+ bodies
Trie-indexed DSA build over 5K research papers
Three-tier search engine. Python does ingestion, C++ does retrieval, React does the UI. Custom Trie, inverted index, and BM25 ranking. Sub-100 ms query latency on 5,000 papers.
Query latency (p95)
< 100 ms
Full-stack operations platform with JWT + QR workflows
A production-ready platform for visitor logging, QR-code check-ins, real-time attendance, salary computation, audit trails, and role-based access.
Production-ready v1.0
13 tables · 10 APIs
Java OOP desktop application
End-semester OOP project. A desktop learning app that exercises inheritance, polymorphism, and encapsulation across a real feature surface.
Classroom project
Demo on LinkedIn
A constellation of the tools I reach for most. Hover a star to see how each skill feeds into the next.
A garden of the tools I reach for most. Each sprig is a skill, grouped by family, with taller stems for the ones I use daily.
Second-year Software Engineering student at NUST Islamabad. I build backend systems. A Trie-indexed academic search engine deployed on Azure, a 3D NASA visualizer that got named a Space Apps Global Nominee, a full-stack visitor platform with QR workflows.
I care about system design, algorithmic correctness, and keeping things quietly fast. I pick the language per problem, not per habit. C++ for hot retrieval loops, Python for ingestion and tooling, TypeScript for anything I want typed end to end.
Outside the terminal: IEEE NUST Publications Executive, former FSc board topper, and an unreasonable interest in space-tech.
Currently looking for backend / systems / space-tech internships.
2024 – 2028
Education
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) · Islamabad, Pakistan
CGPA 3.56
Current student. Coursework: DSA, OOP, DB Systems, Discrete Math.
2022 – 2024
Education
Superior College · Bahawalpur, Pakistan
Board Topper (95%)
2020 – 2022
Education
Umm-ul-Qura Public School · Bahawalpur, Pakistan
99%
Top teams worldwide
2025
95%
99%
NASA International Space Apps Challenge 2025
Coursera
Coursera
Google (Coursera)
Coursera
IEEE NUST Student Chapter · Current
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