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The Shippies ’26 awards night: the trophy animation on three stage screens under the lighting rig, above a dark room of dinner tables
Aamir in a navy suit and blue tie on the red carpet, between two friends, in front of the Shippies ’26 backdrop
The Shippies ’26, RevenueCat’s Shipaton 2026 awards night. Me, centre, on the red carpet with my (very supportive) friends.

Aamir Abdul Azeez

I study electrical engineering and applied math at UMass Amherst. In 2024, I co-founded AmpiereLabs, where I fine-tuned the Llama 8B model behind SlateFront, wrote its Django backend, and built WellSpace, which has 5,000+ users. My own game, After You, took third place (next gen) and $5,000 at the RevenueCat Shipaton 2026 (world’s largest mobile hackathon).

AmpiereLabs (Co-founder & CTO) received grants

  • In NVIDIA Inception
  • In the Claude Startup Program
  • $150,000 in AWS credits
  • $10,000 through Khalifa University’s Launchpad

SlateFront

SlateFront generates math and physics explainer videos to all of your questions. Made by my company, AmpiereLabs, in 2024 with Hishaam Abdul Razik, Gautam Binu and Shahzaib Ahmed.

The top of slatefront.app’s front page: “See what you’re learning.”, the line “Turn a question, image, or sketch into an animation that makes it click.”, and a Create an animation button
slatefront.app

I personally fine-tuned the opensource model behind SlateFront using a dataset from HuggingFace.

This cut inference costs by 48% (from using closed source models) including hosting.

I also wrote the backend in Django. It's hosted on AWS with our Nvidia Inception Program member benefits.

Me presenting at the NYUAD Slush’D 2025

“When will it be back up? I have my exams coming up and it’s really hard to study without SlateFront.”

Amelia McAllister, student at NYUAD (paraphrased), when the site was down

WellSpace

WellSpace is a wellbeing suite for schools and universities, also by our company AmpiereLabs. We built it using React and Supabase. It has 5,000+ users and we presented it at GITEX Global, the world’s largest tech conference (Microsoft, Amazon, Google) with 200K+ trade buyers from 180+ countries.

wellspace.ampierelabs.com

“The weekly happiness index breakdown by grade is very helpful.”

A GEMS Education School
Demo data from the counsellors’ dashboard: 122 conversations, average severity 1.8 out of 5. 19 of them are high severity, requiring immediate attention; the other 103 are not. Every conversation stays confidential: a counsellor reads one only with the student’s consent, and school executives only get notified for serious cases.

After You

Catch something your friend threw yesterday.

The 21-second clip as two traces, one per spirit. Orange plays from 0 to 4 seconds; its Memory replays from 4 to 10 while blue plays. They swap: blue plays from 10 to 14.5, its Memory replays from 14.5 to 18 while orange plays, and the garden blooms to the end.

After You is an asynchronous cooperative puzzle game. Made for people who live apart but love close together in heart. Won $5,000 (3rd, Next-Gen) at Shipaton 2026.

Google Play App Store Shipaton Devpost Source

The trading script

My trading script took an inventory worth 3¢ to $3,200. Without the trading, that skin would be worth 5¢ today.

I made a script to trade CS:GO items for me from 2019 to 2023. I used multiple APIs along with my own scrapers. It posted trade messages to discord servers with tradehold (a hold after trading a Steam item), pricing and inventory information. It checked my inventory every six hours and logged the value using multiple evaluators. In 2023 I stopped the script.

Inventory value log from December 2021 to December 2022. Flagged days come from items leaving and returning to the inventory.

GHGScape

NASA Space Apps Challenge 2024 Global Nominee. Greenhouse-gas history built on NASA and partner datasets served by the US GHG Center.

Data: NASA / NIES ODIAC and NASA SEDAC GPW v4, via the US GHG Center. Earth: NASA Blue Marble. Open GHGScape

NASA Lunabotics

I’ve programmed the drivetrain for UMass’s NASA Lunabotics team since September 2025.

from motors_lunabotics.ino
// Pin definitionsconst int dirPin = 5;const int speedPin = 6; // Set the speed pin state with delaydigitalWrite(speedPin, HIGH);delayMicroseconds(speed);digitalWrite(speedPin, LOW);delayMicroseconds(speed);
Show the whole sketch luna1.pde; lines 33–44, marked, read the controller and drive the motor
import processing.serial.*;import net.java.games.input.*;import org.gamecontrolplus.*;import org.gamecontrolplus.gui.*; import cc.arduino.*;import org.firmata.*; ControlDevice cont;ControlIO control; Arduino arduino; float thumb; void setup() {  size(360, 200);    // Set up the game controller (ensure the correct device name is used)  control = ControlIO.getInstance(this);  cont = control.getMatchedDevice("xbs");    if (cont == null) {    println("Controller not found");    System.exit(-1);  }    // Initialize Firmata  arduino = new Arduino(this, Arduino.list()[0], 57600);  // Adjust the port if needed  arduino.pinMode(6, Arduino.PWM); // Set pin 6 for PWM (Motor speed control)} public void getUserInput(){  // Access the controller and get the slider value (or other input)  thumb = map(cont.getSlider("led").getValue(), -0.1, 0.1, 0, 255);  // Map to PWM range (0-255)} void draw(){  getUserInput();  background(thumb, 100, 255);  // For visualization   // Send the speed value to the Arduino  arduino.analogWrite(6, (int)thumb);  // Pin 6 controls the motor speed}

Blender

Dateel, a date smoothie we pitched at DIDI × Nestlé Project Design Space 2023 (finalists). A Nestlé representative commended the taste. I made the Blender animation, with its fluid simulations, and edited it in DaVinci Resolve. We revised it more than a hundred times over more than six months before we finally signed the NDA with Nestlé and knew we were in.

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Hawking radiation, my Breakthrough Junior Challenge entry, in the top 5 percentile of all participants. I made it alone in under a week and rendered it once. What I took from it: “I just need to start.”

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The Building Block, one of my first Blender animations.

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The word DiffAbled in Braille: capital sign, d, i, f, f, capital sign, a, b, l, e, d

DiffAbled

An app for visually impaired people to learn Braille on their own, through audio rather than an expensive tactile device, with big, bold characters for partial sight. I had never built a mobile app or written Dart at the time. I made it alone for UAE InnoTech 2023, and it won silver in solo programming.

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DiffAbled open on a phone, held beside its code on a laptop

Contact

contact@aamirazeez.com