Ziyam Khan, Teacher, Developer, Researcher, Engineer

  • teaches databases, operating systems, fullstack, cloud computing at Parul University since 2024
  • builds backend APIs, UI components, web apps, Rust apps and stuff that makes my life easy
  • studies federated, machine, deep, reinforcement learning or anything else that interests me
  • runs and mods systems like Arch Linux, homelab VPS, DeepSeek harness, Neovim btw

Working on now

Everything I am working on

Live

Updated

  1. Writing up a pre-registered study of strategic client silence in federated learning: 650 training runs, all finished.
  2. Publishing the code and results of each paper as open repositories.
  3. Preparing the IC3AI talk, now in April 2027.

In the research record

Projects

All projects

runets

My library of React components, springs and WebGL 2 shader effects in TypeScript: glow, fire, liquid metal, weather and more, on one engine with one clock. Everything on this site that moves or glows comes from it.

TypeScriptReactWebGL 2GLSLMotion

Dept Ops

Timetabling, faculty workloads and accreditation records for an academic department. A constraint solver builds clash-free timetables in under a minute.

Next.jsTypeScriptNode.jsPostgreSQLPythonOR-Tools

fieldbook

A native Linux desk for a research workspace kept in plain files. Agents write the Markdown and JSON; the window shows the focus, threads, tasks, lineage and notes as they change, and every file stays readable in an editor.

RustVulkanWaylandMarkdown

Tooling

What I build, run and write with.

Languages

  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Rust
  • C/C++
  • SQL
  • GLSL

Web and backend

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • Django
  • Tauri
  • WebGL 2
  • Motion

ML and data

  • PyTorch
  • NumPy
  • Matplotlib
  • OR-Tools
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis

Systems and cloud

  • Arch Linux
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • Cloudflare
  • Homelab VPS
  • Runpod

Daily kit

  • Neovim
  • Git
  • LaTeX
  • Zotero
  • Wireshark
  • SUMO
  • Claude Code
  • Codex

Contributions

My GitHub activity, private repositories included, a square a day.

1,781 contributions in the last year

Work and education

Work

  1. Parul University

    Teaching

    Assistant Professor

    to

    Information Technology, Parul Institute of Engineering and Technology. Teaching DBMS, data structures and web development.

  2. Stagewise

    Industry

    Backend Developer Intern

    to

    Node.js APIs, authentication, Redis rate limiting and MySQL transactions.

Education

  1. DA-IICT

    MSc Information Technology

    to

    Thesis: Estimation and Optimization of Power Consumption on ARM Architectures.

  2. MSU Baroda

    Bachelor of Computer Applications

    to

    Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Cloud PractitionerValid to February 2029
  • IBM Cybersecurity Analyst Professional Certificate

Achievements

  • UGC-NET qualifiedComputer Science and Applications, December 2024, 93.3 percentile
  • Merit scholarshipTop 5 ranking, DA-IICT, December 2023