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Malek Hammoud

Software & systems builder — computer science @ McMaster

I’m Malek Hammoud. I build software that has to work — Linux distributions, weed-finding robots, and local AI that never leaves the machine.

I started in high school with games and robots, and kept going until the projects crossed into things people actually run in the wild: a weed-spraying rover that took bronze at the Canada-Wide Science Fair, an Arch Linux distribution with a SourceForge award, and a travel-safety platform now serving over a thousand users a month. I interned twice as a full-stack developer before starting university. I’m looking for a software engineering internship for Summer 2027.

SEEKING A SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INTERNSHIP FOR SUMMER 2027

A few things I’ve shipped

All work
  1. 2026IsMyTripSafe[1]A destination-safety platform that turns government advisories plus live web research into a single 0–100 score for 1,000+ cities. Now at 1,000+ monthly users.
  2. 2026Flow Arch[2]An Arch Linux distribution built around enforced focus — compositor-level control, not another Pomodoro app. 700+ downloads.
  3. 202622 autonomous Apify scrapers[3]A fleet of 22 regulatory scrapers deployed on Apify, screened by buyer demand and guarded by freshness canaries so a broken run never bills.
  4. 2025Basil Home AI[4]A smart-fridge engine running QNX RTOS on a Raspberry Pi with on-device grocery detection and expiry-ranked recipes.
  5. 2024GreenGuardian[5]An autonomous robot that finds invasive weeds with TensorFlow Lite vision and spot-sprays only the weed. Bronze at the Canada-Wide Science Fair.
  6. 2025Drone litter-mapping system[6]An F450 drone that flies GPS waypoint grids, detects litter with YOLOv5 at 90% accuracy, and tags each hit to a live map.
  7. 2025Minecraft flight physics mod[7]A flight mod whose plane Lifts off, stalls, and lands from one speed-based physics scalar — running inside Minecraft’s 20-tick simulation.
  1. [1] Live at ismytripsafe.com.
  2. [2] SourceForge — 700+ downloads, Rising Star Award.
  3. [3] Live on Apify — demand-screened, pay-per-event.
  4. [4] Hack the 6ix 2025 — winner, Deloitte "Best Use of AI for Green".
  5. [5] Canada-Wide Science Fair 2024 — bronze medalist.
  6. [6] Research paper and write-up in the logs.
  7. [7] Modrinth / CurseForge — 1,200+ downloads.

Right now

Most of my time goes into Flow Arch, whatever local LLM infrastructure I’m tuning that week, and the occasional write-up for the logs page.

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