I’m Aayan Shaikh - a Computer Engineer based out of Waterloo and Guelph. I work on embedded systems, custom hardware, and software.

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About

I’m studying Computer Engineering (Co-op) at the University of Guelph. My projects range from keyboards and flight-sim controls to IoT monitoring and embedded control systems.

I enjoy working with Linux, designing hardware, and figuring out how things work.

Resume

Beyond the projects

University, hackathons, travel, and what I’ve been up to along the way. A few stories, year by year.

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Experience

Waterloo, Ontario · On-siteMay 2026 — present

Stealth Startup

Engineering

  • Electrical engineering
Guelph, OntarioSeptember 2026 — present

Google Developer Groups · UofG

Financial Director

Guelph, Ontario · On-siteSeptember 2025 — present

IEEE · UofG

Project Lead

Leading technical projects across PCB design, computer vision, and MATLAB at the University of Guelph IEEE Student Branch. I design boards for workshops, help attendees with KiCad, soldering, and troubleshooting, and maintain the club website with React and JavaScript.

  • Project leadership
  • PCB design
  • Computer vision
  • MATLAB
  • KiCad
  • React
Guelph, Ontario

University of Guelph

Robotics Research Assistant

Working on strawberry-picking robots at the University of Guelph. My research work includes robotic-arm motion control on QNX, MATLAB simulation and test analysis, and integrating sensor and vision inputs for autonomous operation.

  • QNX
  • Robotics
  • MATLAB
  • Sensors
RemoteJanuary 2026 — August 2026

Alignerr

AI Software Engineer · Internship

  • Software development
  • Agentic AI development
Waterloo, Ontario · RemoteNovember 2025 — July 2026

Outlier AI

AI Analyst · Contract · Part-time

Reviewed and annotated visual data for AI training, checking image sets for consistency and instruction compliance.

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Machine learning

Education

Guelph, OntarioSeptember 2025 — April 2030 (expected)

University of Guelph

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering (Co-op)

Coursework includes object-oriented programming, linear algebra, calculus.

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