Activities Coordinator
Leeds Artificial Intelligence Society
Led workshops on local LLM deployment, custom chatbot design, and practical model training. Directed planning and delivery for Leeds AI Week.
Leeds AI WeekOct 2025 – Present
Hanish Abdulla
Computer Science @ University of Leeds
Software engineer focused on practical AI systems, automation, and product-led engineering from prototype to deployment.
Experience
Software Engineer (Contract)
Qatar University
Developed Feathr, a poultry management platform tailored for the Qatari market and presented it at the annual research forum.
Feb 2025 – May 2025
Software Engineering Intern
DHL (Deutsche Post AG subsidiary)
Designed an OCR-powered parcel sorting system with 800 packages per hour throughput and built flight-path based routing logic.
Gulf Times CoverageApr 2024 – Sept 2024
Co-Founder, Head of Software
Panatex Labs
Taught robotics to 300+ students, donated STEM tools to under-resourced schools, and co-authored a beginner robotics guide.
PublicationAug 2022 – Sept 2025
Projects
M.A.S.H
Modular Automated Sorting Hub
Proprietary OCR parcel sorting machine built from scratch with high throughput and low hardware cost. Patent Pending.
DemoGhost
Persistent Memory Layer for Coding Agents
Repo-aware intelligence that learns from real coding sessions, turns screen, chat, and git signals into durable developer preferences, and generates sharper repo-specific rules automatically.
DemoFeathr
Poultry Management Platform
Cross-platform software built with TypeScript, Expo, and React Native for daily operations and tracking.
Epsilon
Live AI Engagement Layer for Lecture Halls
Turns lectures into interactive, searchable learning sessions by combining live transcription, grounded student Q&A, and real-time lecturer insights so confusion gets surfaced and resolved while teaching is still happening.
Education
University of Leeds
BSc Computer Science · Sept 2025 – July 2028
Modules: Python and C, Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science I, Computer Systems and Architecture.
PythonEdge AIJavaScriptTypeScriptNext.jsExpoReactMySQLDocker
Publication
Becoming a Maker: A Condensed Introduction to Hobby Robotics
September 2023 · Hanish Abdulla, Jai Aadhithya, Nihal Ashik
Book Link