Safwan Haque

Software Developer Co-op · IBM

Software developer working at the edge of backend, data, and security.

I'm a computer engineering student at Toronto Metropolitan University and a developer at IBM, where I help build the Guardium AI Intelligence Platform, which governs how enterprises ingest and secure data for AI. The problems I like best sit underneath the interface: pipelines, schemas, and the policies that keep sensitive data in line.

Lately I've also been building Steady, an AI market-intelligence platform for retail investors.

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Backend

APIs & services

02

Data

pipelines & search

03

Security

data protection

04

Systems

distributed & scale

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AI

AI automation & ML

Safwan Haque on a clifftop above the ocean
// Bali, Indonesia
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Experience

  1. May 2025 – present

    IBM Canada

    Software Developer Co-op · Guardium Data Security

    Helping build the AI Intelligence Platform's data-governance system from inception: backend APIs, database design, ingestion-pipeline configuration, and Carbon UIs for policy-driven enterprise AI data ingestion. Also shipped tenant-to-tenant migration for users, reports, groups, and dashboards. Staying on as a student-on-call through April 2027.

  2. May – Aug 2024

    Grey-Box

    Software Engineering Intern

    Built the backend of a tool that translates medicine names across five languages. Evaluated six fuzzy-matching algorithms so search holds up against misspelled drug names, and designed the SQL schema indexing 10,000+ medicines.

  3. Jul – Aug 2024

    Headstarter

    Software Engineering Fellow

    Led a team of four through five AI projects over a seven-week fellowship.

  4. Jul – Aug 2024

    Storefront Manitoba

    Technical Intern

    Built and maintained a donor database tracking records for 1,000+ donors.

  5. Oct – Dec 2023

    BCEdAccess

    Web Developer Intern

    Rebuilt the nonprofit's website: design, UX, and functionality.

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Projects

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Education

  1. 2021 – 2027

    Toronto Metropolitan University

    BEng, Computer Engineering · Software Engineering specialization

    Coursework in operating systems, databases, algorithms, and computer architecture.

  2. 2023

    Udacity

    AI Programming with Python Nanodegree

    Completed on a full scholarship from AWS.

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Skills

Languages

  • Python
  • TypeScript / JavaScript
  • Go
  • Java
  • C / C++
  • SQL
  • Bash

Frameworks

  • React / Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Flask
  • .NET
  • REST / OpenAPI
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow

Infrastructure

  • PostgreSQL / MySQL
  • SQLite
  • MongoDB / Redis
  • Kafka
  • Docker / Kubernetes
  • Azure / AWS
  • Firebase

Tools

  • Git / GitHub
  • OpenAI
  • Stripe
  • Vercel
  • Postman
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Let's build something.

I'm looking for entry-level software roles, and always up for an interesting project on the side. The fastest way to reach me is email.

haque.safwan0000@gmail.com