Open to opportunities — Leuven, Belgium
Zakaria Shahruri
Software developer, passionate about building great products.
About Me
I'm Zakaria Shahruri, currently in my third year of Computer Science at UCLL. I learn by building — through hackathons, personal projects, competitions, and picking apart new technologies on my own.
I'm always looking for the next thing that will stretch me — harder problems, unfamiliar tools, and work that makes me a better engineer.
Zakaria Shahruri
Computer Science · UCLL
Open to work
- Educated atUCLL, Belgium
- Based inBelgium
- Open to workAnywhere in the world
Selected Projects
Smart Car Race
Browser-controlled RC car on a Raspberry Pi — a persistent GPIO daemon and Apache CGI, no frameworks. 1st place, BusITWeek 2026.
FinFlow
Cloud-native personal finance tracker — React and Spring Boot, running on Azure.
Leuven Go
A 24-hour hackathon build turning a citizen's photo and location into a city work order, with pro and gamified student dashboards.
Sentinel
Encrypted wireless sensor platform — ESP32 nodes stream AES-encrypted data over 433MHz RF to a FastAPI backend and a real-time Next.js dashboard.
Forma Studio
Creative studio portfolio with scrollytelling — Next.js, Tailwind, and GSAP.
Data Pipelines
Batch and real-time data pipelines orchestrated with Apache Airflow, written to Azure Blob Storage.
Maison Noir
Upscale restaurant website — Next.js, Tailwind, and Framer Motion.
Sabotage Runners
A 1v1 local multiplayer racing and combat game in Python and Pygame. 2nd place, UCLL Project Week 2024.
Design preview
Currently building
Plenty of people train hard and still stall — the gap is diet, not effort. Not another calorie counter: say what you ate in plain language, and it learns from your own data to connect what you eat with how you train, sleep and feel — then tells you the truth about it.
- React Native
- Expo
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- FastAPI
- Python
- SQLAlchemy
- PostgreSQL
- pgvector
- Redis
- Auth0
- Docker
- Azure Container Apps
- Azure Blob Storage
- Azure Key Vault
- GitHub Actions
- Application Insights
- Sentry
- Anthropic
- OpenAI
In development
What I work with
Skills
I enjoy working across every layer of a system — from low-level hardware and backend services up to web applications and cloud infrastructure.
- Python
- Java
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- SQL
- Bash
- React
- Next.js
- Tailwind CSS
- Spring Boot
- Node.js
- FastAPI
- REST APIs
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Microsoft Azure
- Bicep
- Docker
- Linux
- Git
- GitHub Actions
- CI/CD
- Pandas
- NumPy
- scikit-learn
- Apache Airflow
- Raspberry Pi
- ESP32
My Journey
Scroll to explore the timeline
- 2024–2027
Applied Computer Science, UCLL
Learning by building, and developing my skills as a software engineer.
- Next
First internship
Taking my skills into a professional environment.
- Later
Professional growth
Building experience and taking ownership of larger projects.
Proof of work
Achievements
Hack the Waste 2026
Hurricane Electric IPv6
Smart Car Race
Get in touch
Let's talk.
Got an opportunity, a question, or just want to talk shop? I'd love to hear from you.
zakaria.vegaaa@gmail.com