Portfolio · Class of 2026
Zoya Qureshi seeking a Design Engineer role
Final-year computer science student who lives in the gap between Figma and the DOM. I build interface tools, obsess over motion, and ship frontend that feels engineered — not assembled.
14
Projects shipped
since first year
Open to offers
Graduating May 2026 · based in Austin, TX · happy to relocate or work remote-first.
Experience
Three internships,
zero unshipped features.
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Jun — Aug 2025
Frontend Engineering Intern
Lumen Grid · fintech, Austin
Rebuilt the transaction-detail view used by every customer, cutting interaction latency by moving heavy formatting off the main thread. Landed 31 PRs; two shipped to production in my first month.
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Sep 2024 — May 2025
Teaching Assistant, Interactive Web Systems
Northgate University CS Dept.
Ran weekly labs for 60 students on semantic HTML, CSS layout, and progressive enhancement. Wrote the course's autograder for accessibility checks — now used across three sections.
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May — Aug 2024
Product Design Intern
Parallel Studio · brand & digital
Prototyped client concepts in code instead of static mocks. My motion prototypes for a beverage launch became the studio's default pitch format for interactive work.
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2023 — present
Open-source contributor
Design-tooling ecosystem
Maintainer of two small CSS utilities; regular contributor to docs and reduced-motion fixes across component libraries I actually use.
Selected work
Tools I wished existed,
so I built them.
Featured · Web tool
Tessel — a CSS grid playground that writes itself
Drag regions on a canvas and Tessel emits clean, named grid-template-areas with responsive fallbacks. Built with vanilla TS and a custom undo stack; used by my entire web-systems lab section.
Case study →Data viz
Pulseboard
Campus gym occupancy tracker with SVG sparklines and a zero-JS fallback table. 2nd place, HackNorthgate 2025.
Case study →Mobile-first app
Splitledger
Offline-first expense splitting for my apartment of five. IndexedDB sync, zero sign-up, aggressively boring math.
Case study →Docs engine
Orbitdocs
A documentation theme where the nav is a radial map of the codebase. Weird on purpose; readable by accident.
Case study →31
Pull requests merged
during one internship summer
Capabilities
The stack, grouped honestly.
Languages
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Python
- SQL
- HTML/CSS (yes, properly)
Frameworks & runtime
- React
- Next.js
- Node.js
- Vite
- Astro
Design & motion
- Figma
- Design tokens
- Scroll-driven animation
- WCAG 2.1 AA
- Prototyping in code
Tooling & practice
- Git & code review
- Playwright
- CI pipelines
- Storybook
- Lighthouse budgets
Education
Learning in public since 2022.
B.S. Computer Science, Minor in Visual Design
Northgate University · 2022 — 2026
Coursework I actually use: Interactive Web Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics, Databases, and a design-studio minor that taught me to defend decisions with words, not vibes.
60
Students taught
as a TA per semester