Akam Nawzad
Software Engineering Student @ UKH
Creating practical digital solutions with a focus on clean design and effective functionality.
About
Software engineering student with interests in machine learning, web development, and UI/UX design.
Currently in my senior year at the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH), completing my degree while working on academic and personal projects. I'm drawn to clean design principles and functional aesthetics, exploring how they can create more effective digital experiences.
My technical skills span from frontend development with Vue.js to backend work with Python/Flask and AI model fine-tuning. I enjoy creating projects that solve practical problems and improve accessibility across different languages and contexts. I'm particularly passionate about applying AI and machine learning to address challenges in Kurdish language processing and localization.
Selected Work
Kurdish Named Entity Recognition with XLM-RoBERTa
Fine-tuned XLM-RoBERTa for Named Entity Recognition on Kurmanji Kurdish using 7,919 annotated sentences. Achieved F1 score of 0.87 for PER, LOC, ORG entities. Deployed to Hugging Face Hub to address the low-resource NLP gap for Kurdish.
Kurdish Dialect Classifier
A lightweight web application that identifies whether a given Kurdish text (in Arabic script) is written in Sorani or Kurmanji (Badini). Built with Gradio for the UI and trained a Logistic Regression classifier using TF-IDF vectorization. Achieved 92% classification accuracy on test data.
Gorrer - Kurdish Transliterator
A web tool that converts Kurdish text between Arabic and Latin scripts. Built with Flask and deployed as a serverless API on Vercel, it handles linguistic nuances like bizroke insertion for accurate transliteration.
KurdType
A platform for discovering and downloading open-licensed Kurdish fonts. The site makes typography more accessible for Kurdish content creators and designers looking for quality typefaces.
DarshtnAI
A university project that uses Google's Gemini API to generate Kurdish essays. I designed the interface and implemented the API integration to make AI text generation accessible to Kurdish users.
London Towers Erbil
Designed and built the website for London Towers Erbil, focusing on clean design and responsive implementation to showcase the property effectively.
Kurdish News Corpus
Collected and processed over 140,000 Kurdish news articles during an internship at UKH AI Center using Beautiful Soup and Scrapy, creating a valuable dataset for Kurdish NLP research.
Skills
Frontend
- HTML/CSS
- JavaScript
- Vue.js
- Tailwind CSS
Design
- UI/UX Design
- Figma
- Adobe Photoshop
- Canva
Backend & Databases
- Python
- Flask
- PHP
- Node.js
- Express.js
- REST APIs
- MySQL
AI & Data Science
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Pandas
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- Jupyter Notebooks
- Web Scraping (BeautifulSoup, Scrapy)
Tools & Technologies
- Git/GitHub
- Google Cloud
- Vercel/Render
- VS Code
- Postman
- npm/yarn
Experience
Web Developer
Freelance
Designing and developing websites for local businesses including London Towers Erbil. Focusing on responsive design, clean UI, and optimized performance.
AI Research Assistant Intern
UKH AI Center
Collected and processed over 140,000 Kurdish news articles using web scraping techniques. Created datasets for NLP research and assisted with model training for Kurdish language processing.
Frontend Developer Intern
Standing Tech
Maintained websites for local businesses, focusing on clean design and responsive implementation.
Education
BSc in Software Engineering
University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH)
Focusing on software development, algorithms, and AI applications.
Ovanya AI Bootcamp
Ovanya • wedo
Intensive AI development program covering machine learning fundamentals, neural networks, and practical AI applications.
The program provided hands-on training in deep learning models, NLP techniques. I learned about data preprocessing, model optimization, and AI development practices through practical projects and real-world applications.
Contact
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