Portfolio // Ali Karimi

./Experience

Co-Founder & CEO / AI Software Engineer

Asymptote Labs Inc. | May 2025 - Sep 2025

Founded company developing UMBRA, a non-lethal drone defense system, driving product vision, partnerships, and fundraising.
Built AI-powered detection pipeline with YOLOv8/11 + OpenCV for real-time tracking and distance estimation.
Developed Python algorithms for 360° autonomous servo targeting with motion sensor integration.
Managed and trained on 10K+ drone images using Roboflow/Blender/Linux/Git to improve detection accuracy.

Python C Blender YOLOv8/11

AI Software Engineer Intern

Kisoji Biotech | May 2025 - Sep 2025

Built and deployed an AI stock analysis platform with OpenAI's LLM and a Python pipeline, doubling prediction accuracy.
Designed an event-driven data ingestion system, boosting processing speed 200% with threading and async APIs.
Automated large-scale financial data collection, cutting manual research effort 30% via NLP-powered parsing.
Developed robust API integrations (Finviz, OpenAI, Hugging Face) to enrich sentiment analysis and market predictions.

Python Blender Nmap Metasploit Artificial Neural Networks Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)

Data Research Analyst Intern

Pennsylvania State University | May 2024 - Aug 2024 (Remote)

Built and deployed an AI stock analysis platform with OpenAI's LLM and a Python pipeline, doubling prediction accuracy.
Designed an event-driven data ingestion system, boosting processing speed 200% with threading and async APIs.
Automated large-scale financial data collection, cutting manual research effort 30% via NLP-powered parsing.
Developed robust API integrations (Finviz, OpenAI, Hugging Face) to enrich sentiment analysis and market predictions.

Python AI/ML OpenAI API NLP Async APIs NLTK Hugging Face

AI Data Annotator

Aerialytic | Summer 2019 & 2020 (Toronto, Remote)

Assisted in training machine learning models by labeling 1,000+ satellite images for AI-driven solar panel placement.
Gained hands-on experience in image preprocessing and annotation strategies for ML datasets.

Data Annotation Machine Learning Image Processing ML Datasets

./Projects

Offensive Security & Vulnerability Analysis

Found and demonstrated real vulnerabilities in Linux services and delivered reproducible PoC exploits. Designed and shipped fixes with clear impact analysis and repro/docs for verification.

C GDB Pwntools Bash

Kernel Syscall Hijacking

Built a kernel module that hijacks and logs system calls for specific processes while keeping normal behavior intact. Added permission checks and safe cleanup with spinlocks to ensure stability and prevent race conditions.

C Linux kernel modules debugging tools

AI-Powered Privacy & Security Extension

Developed a Chrome extension in Python to analyze website privacy policies and detect security risks. Integrated Cohere, OpenAI, and Gemini APIs. Used BeautifulSoup & Selenium for scraping/detecting suspicious site behavior (90% accuracy).

Python AI Security Chrome Extension APIs Selenium Git OpenAI

End-to-End Encrypted Messaging System

Built a real-time group chat system in C using sockets and SELECT. Added end-to-end encryption for private communication and a passkey system for server access (2nd layer security).

C Networking Sockets Encryption Security Bash Git

Custom Linux Shell From Scratch

Engineered a Unix-like shell (MySH) in C supporting core commands (ls, cd, echo) & multi-process handling. Optimized memory/piping (30% exec time cut), built modular architecture, and designed fault-tolerant execution (40% memory leak reduction).

C OS Concepts Shell Bash Memory Management Data Structures GCC Git

AI-Powered Digital Painting Suite

Used Java to develop an AI-driven digital painting suite, integrating LLM-based art generation (Llama 3 API) with JavaFX. Optimized rendering (90% object reduction), refactored logic (Strategy, Command, Factory patterns), and implemented file I/O.

Java JavaFX AI LLM API Design Patterns MVC Scrum Git

Disk Analyzer Tool

Created a Python-based treemap visualization tool analyzing 10GB+ file systems for efficient storage insights. Applied OOP for interactive file management, enabling efficient visualization and deletion.

Python Data Visualization OOP File Systems PyTest Data Structures

Customer Relationship Management System

Designed a Python-based CRM system to manage 5000+ customers, their interactions, billing, and contracts. Implemented efficient data storage for customer records and call logs, streamlining client management.

Python OOP Software Development CRM

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