Available for new grad roles · May 2027

Ali
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Senior Software Engineering student with 2+ years of hands-on experience writing and testing code, building automation frameworks, and delivering software solutions across diverse industries. Experienced in both corporate and startup environments, demonstrating strong analytical skills and a results-driven approach to solving complex, real-world engineering challenges.

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Ali Shandhor
@ Ciena
YorkU·SWE
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About Me

Building real things,
not just homework.

I'm a Senior Software Engineering student at York University with hands-on industry experience across three internships — building optical network automation at Ciena, 5G test frameworks at Ericsson, and AI voice synthesis at Vosyn.

My work spans backend engineering, automation, machine learning, and cloud systems. I'm drawn to problems that involve making systems faster, more reliable, or more intelligent.

Outside of code, I'm interested in the intersection of AI and infrastructure — how intelligent systems can automate the tedious parts of engineering work itself.

Ali Shandhor

York University

Spec. Hons. Bachelor of Engineering, Software Engineering

Sep 2021 – May 2027

Awards

🏆 Dean's Honour Roll🏆 Gordon & Agnes Brash Scholarship🏆 YorkU Intl. Entrance Award (A+ average)

Coursework

DSAOOPSoftware DesignComputer OrganizationEmbedded Systems
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Internships
2+
Years Exp.
A+
GPA Avg.
Technical Stack

Skills

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Languages

JavaPythonC/C++JavaScriptMATLABBashHTML/CSSSQL/NoSQL
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Frameworks & Libraries

Spring BootFlaskPyTorchReactNext.jsBootstrapTailwind CSS
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Cloud & DevOps

AWSAzureGCPDockerJenkinsCI/CD
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Tools

GitJiraLinuxJupyterJUnit
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Databases

MongoDBSQLNoSQL

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RustKubernetesLLM Fine-tuningRay
Career

Experience

Software Engineering Intern

Current

Ciena · Ottawa, ON, Canada

Sept 2025 – Present
  • ▸Designed and implemented Python test cases in Jupyter Notebooks to automate validation of optical network captive environments for hyperscale customers including Google, Microsoft, and Meta.
  • ▸Maintained and enhanced the RLS product automation framework by developing APIs and utilities for CLI, REST, NETCONF, and gRPC interfaces, resolving bugs, and assisting manual testers.
  • ▸Contributed to improving CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins by enhancing automation, testing workflows, and deployment processes.
PythonJupyterRESTNETCONFgRPCJenkinsCI/CD

Software Engineering Intern

Ericsson · Ottawa, ON, Canada

Jan 2024 – Dec 2024
  • ▸Developed a software tool to automate Qualcomm enterprise applications through their APIs using Python, enabling customized automation and data analysis workflows.
  • ▸Built a test automation framework using Python that takes YAML input to configure 5G test case workflows, leveraging pandas and NumPy.
  • ▸Applied concurrent and parallel processing techniques using CPU cores and threads, achieving a 50% reduction in data processing time.
PythonYAMLpandasNumPy5GParallel Processing

AI Software Development Intern

Vosyn · Toronto, ON, Canada

July 2023 – Oct 2023
  • ▸Contributed to core MVP features for a large language and voice synthesis model.
  • ▸Trained models on diverse audio datasets to improve generalization and multilingual voice cloning.
  • ▸Built a Gradio front-end for the MVP using a 60M-parameter vision transformer in PyTorch, trained on 10,000 hours of audio via GCP.
PyTorchGradioGCPVision TransformerAudio ML
Work

Projects

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Salon AI

Full-stack AI-powered salon booking platform with intelligent stylist suggestions. Features RESTful APIs for appointment management and an AI-driven recommendation engine for personalized stylist matching.

FlaskReactNext.jsTailwind CSSMongoDB
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YorkU Parking System

Comprehensive parking management system for York University. Built with Java backend handling admin controls, authentication, vehicle tracking, and parking management with multiple design patterns and unit tests.

JavaJavaFXMVCJUnit
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Open to new grad roles, internships, and interesting projects. Let's build something together.

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Location

Ottawa, Canada

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