I was the student
you're building for.
At 18, I dropped out. No roadmap, no advisor — no one to tell me what the path looked like or what my options even were. I navigated it the only way I could: by doing.
Four years later I'd built AI systems serving 60,000+ users under real production pressure. That experience is not a gap on a CV. It's exactly why I get this problem from the inside — and why I want to help build the tool I never had.
active users, one engineer
founding engineer scope
2024 — Present
Khadoom.ai
Founding Engineer · Clicks Express
QATAR
Joined as the first engineering hire — the product was just an idea, zero users, no proven market. Built everything from scratch. Took it to 60,000+ active users in two years as the sole engineer, with every architectural decision mine.
AI pipelines, real-time dispatch, fleet automation
Telecoms IVR, automated messaging, ticket routing
Legal compliance + finance audit tooling
Next.js · TypeScript · Python · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · Redis · AWS
Founded — Ongoing
HEVYF
Founder · hevyf.com · Wyoming LLC
SAAS
Noticed a gap — every team I worked with across freelance and full-time work faced the same problem: critical reporting and automation that never got done because no one had the knowledge, the time, or a dedicated team to build it. HEVYF solves that. Paying customers. Full product ownership.
Bulk personalised outreach — 500+ messages/min from a CSV
Connects to Sheets, Stripe, Razorpay, email, WhatsApp
The contracting entity for US clients — no sponsorship needed
Next.js · FastAPI · Python · OpenAI · Supabase · Stripe
I'm not the deepest expert on any single layer. I'm the engineer who figures out how they all work together — fast, under real pressure, with no team to catch my mistakes.
understand → think → move → validate → iterate
That's how Khadoom.ai went from zero to 60,000 users. Give me a problem I haven't seen before. That's when I'm most useful.
Stack Overflow era foundations. AI-native execution. I started in the Flutter community when shipping meant understanding every frame and every state mutation. That discipline is what lets me use Claude as a multiplier instead of a crutch — I know what the generated code is doing, which means I know when it's wrong.
Technical context — relevant to this role
Mobile (origin)
Languages & runtimes
Frontend & fullstack
Backend & data
Infrastructure & auth
AI & orchestration
Why I built this
I learn by building.
So before I applied, I built.
“I prototyped the hard parts of your problem before applying — student profile inference mid-conversation, safety pipeline architecture, voice that feels like a counselor and not a chatbot. Not to show off what I can build. To understand what it actually requires.”
“Your AI Guide is the product
I needed at 18.”
The navigational burden
Thousands of credential programs, financial aid vehicles, and career tools exist across Washington State — but from a first-gen student's perspective, they're invisible. The people who need guidance most carry the heaviest navigation burden.
I've lived this problem
Self-taught, no advisor, no map — I pieced together my path from a dozen scattered sources. That experience is not abstract to me. It shaped every decision in how I built the prototype you're about to see.
AI student advisor — try it now.
Real Claude responses, grounded in Washington State context. Student profile infers mid-conversation. Safety pipeline visualization is illustrative — shows the layer structure, not production code.
The guide reads replies aloud. Pick a scenario or type a question.
AI Career Coach — WA State
Claude · RAG-grounded · FERPA compliant
Start a conversation
Pick a scenario above or type a question. The AI Guide will respond in text and speak to you — like a real career coach.
Enter to send · Shift+Enter new line · Guide reads replies aloud
Profile builds as you share context
WA State sources appear
after each AI response
Input scan
COPPA age check · PII detection
Intent classification
Crisis detection · Off-topic filter
RAG retrieval
Pulling WA State sources
Claude generation
Grounded response building
Output validation
FERPA compliance · Fact-grounding
Activates on every message
Claude Sonnet · ElevenLabs voice · WA State context · Prompt caching·Personal prototype by Jasim Ameen — not an official CampusEvolve product
GitLab Foundation Grant · Credential Transparency
The credential graph — visualized.
This is what the credential transparency layer could look like for students. The GitLab Foundation grant is building the data layer — here's what the experience layer might feel like. Click any node to see details.
Real WA State data · Grounded in WSAC, WorkSource, and community college catalogs · Click any node to explore
What I'd build
Day one through ninety.
The 2026 pilot deadline is real pressure. Here's exactly what I'd focus on to make it.
Listen, don't ship
Understand the AI Guide's real failure modes before writing a line of product code.
- Review real student session logs — where does the AI hedge, hallucinate, or lose the student?
- Map the current RAG architecture — what data sources are grounded, what's missing?
- Meet the Yakima and Port Angeles pilot contacts to understand student context first-hand
- No new features. Understanding only.
First real deliverables
Ship the pieces that unblock the 2026 pilot deadline and make advisors' lives easier.
- WhatsApp integration — meet students where they actually are (not a webapp)
- Advisor dashboard v1 — see student profiles, flag emotional risk signals, track session history
- Student document reader — accept and parse financial aid letters, transcripts, FAFSA confirmations
- Source citation hardening — reduce hallucinated resource links to near zero
The architecture that scales
Build the pieces that make this replicable beyond Washington State.
- Credential graph explorer — the experience layer for the GitLab Foundation data graph (you just saw the prototype above)
- State-agnostic knowledge base architecture — swap WA data for any state's resources by design
- Proactive nudges — FAFSA deadline reminders, application window alerts, enrollment confirmation prompts
- Voice mode polishing — make the ElevenLabs integration feel as warm as a real advisor, not a chatbot
Long-term vision
The architecture built for Washington can serve every education system worldwide.
The same navigational burden that first-gen students face in Yakima exists in Texas, in Brazil, in South Africa. State-agnostic architecture from day one means this isn't a Washington product — it's a template for every education system that has failed to connect learners to opportunity. The Gates Foundation already knows this. The architecture just needs to be built right.
Why I reached out
I'm not casting a wide net.
I specifically want to work on this — the mission is real, the 2026 pilot deadline is real, and the senior full-stack role is still open.
Your AI Guide is the product first-gen students everywhere need. I want to be part of the team that finishes building it.
The honest case
The objections — and what's actually true.
I know the gaps. I'm not going to dodge them.
“The role is US-only. How does the location work?”
I run ET-aligned afternoons as my standard schedule — it's exactly how I've been working with US clients for two years through HEVYF LLC Wyoming. You invoice a US company. No sponsorship, no immigration paperwork, no HR complexity. Same setup every time. Zero issues.
“You have 4 years. We want 6–10.”
Four years as the sole engineer on an AI platform scaled to 60,000+ active users — every architectural decision mine, zero-to-one, no team to catch mistakes. That forces a level of systems thinking that 10 years of maintenance work doesn't. The prototype you just used was built in four days. That's the argument.
“No formal CS degree.”
I stepped away before I knew this was my path. I taught myself by shipping. The prototype is the degree. Your job posting doesn't mention one either.
In numbers
founding engineer scope
to build this prototype end-to-end
$0
ramp-up on Claude / FastAPI / Next.js
LLC
Wyoming — no sponsorship needed
I've already sent an email to info@campusevolve.ai and a direct note to Maria and Toby. If you're reading this — I'd love to find a time to talk through any of this.
One question for you: what's the biggest unsolved engineering challenge on the AI Guide right now?
Talk with Jasim
Jasim Ameen
Founding Engineer
HEVYF LLC · Wyoming · ET afternoons daily
“Four years building AI systems under real pressure, with real users. Ask me anything.”
Voice via ElevenLabs · Intelligence via Claude