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
Cum laude (expected)
Learning by building, and developing my skills as a software engineer.
- Sep 2026 – Jan 2027
Exchange Semester, SSPU
Shanghai, China
Mobility period at Shanghai Polytechnic University.
- Next
First internship
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Taking my skills into a professional environment.
Proof of work
Achievements
Hack the Waste 2026
Hurricane Electric IPv6
Smart Car Race
Azure Management Tasks
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@zakariashahruri.com