Jalal Ahmad
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System
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January 2025 - May 2025

Software Engineer & Researcher

@ SEAM Lab

:: loc: College Park, MD

:: commit: 8a2b0f

Collaborated directly with client(s) and team of 6 peers, developing an AI-powered pipeline to preprocess, locate joints, and rig 3D insect models for integration with NVIDIA Isaac Sim, enabling simulation-ready assets for robotics biodiversity research.

[ Dependencies ]
PyTorch & PythonBlenderDeepLabCutComputer Vision
September 2025 - December 2025

Cloud & HPC Engineer

@ FROOT Systems Lab

:: loc: College Park, MD

:: commit: 8a2b1f

Led HPC system and cloud-based job-submission workflow design within a cross-functional team of 6, architecting a high-performance cloud simulation platform for additive manufacturing.

[ Dependencies ]
Azure {CycleCloud, Container Instances, Functions, Blob Storage}Apache Cassandra
September 2025 - December 2025

Multimodal Deep Learning Researcher

@ UMD

:: loc: College Park, MD

:: commit: 8a2b2f

Developed with my peers, a Multimodal Reverse Dictionary framework to address the 'Tip-of-the-Tongue' retrieval problem, enabling robust, visually-aware lexical retrieval without requiring image inputs at inference.

[ Dependencies ]
PytorchStreamLitHuggingFaceBERTResNetInfoNCEDistillation
November 2025 - Present

Co-Founder & Software Engineer

@ bette(rX)

:: loc: College Park, MD

:: commit: 8a2b3f

Early stage startup, developing a platform integrated with Canvas LMS to combat the growing student mental health crisis by visualizing academic workload and promoting proactive burnout prevention.

[ Dependencies ]
TypescriptCanvas LMS APIChrome APIs
May 2025 - Present

Software Engineer

@ Sustainabli

:: loc: Baltimore, MD

:: commit: 8a2b4f

Work within a tight‑knit startup team to build internal tools and backend systems for our SaaS dashboard, enhancing automation, data reliability, and the product experience delivered to clients.

[ Dependencies ]
React.jsPostgreSQLAWSRust

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