Zayd Choudhary

Purdue Polytechnic, CNIT 17600

• Led weekly labs for a class of 35 students on networking, system hardware and OS fundamentals.
• Guided students through lab builds and live hardware, OS and network troubleshooting, helping raise lab report scores 10%.
• Graded hundreds of lab assignments against standardized rubrics and reported recurring technical errors to faculty.

CUSD 308, Oswego, IL

• Delivered Tier 1 support across the district's Windows and Chromebook fleets, resolving hardware and OS faults.
• Imaged, configured and deployed 500+ student and faculty devices, and earned the Acer Repair Certification.
• Restored account and permission access and troubleshot LAN, Wi-Fi and printer connectivity across buildings.
• Maintained IT inventory and verified pilot-course lab devices met required configurations and security baselines.

Cadco Ltd., Winsted, CT

• Built two competitive intelligence databases covering 125+ products from 15 manufacturers, correcting 15+ spec errors.
• Verified pricing on 100+ models across 25+ distributors and found price gaps of up to 59% between dealers.
• Designed a weighted scoring model in Excel that ranks 1,000+ product comparisons; staff refresh it monthly.

Handshake, remote

• Rated and ranked 100+ AI model responses on accuracy, relevance and instruction-following against set rubrics.
• Wrote a rationale for each rating, documenting errors and explaining why one response outranked another.
• Wrote prompts and test questions used to evaluate model responses and find failure cases.

Web and iOS app for Big Ten students

• Lets students post specific study spots, like a library desk or a café table, rate them in ten categories and report how busy they are.
• Turns busyness reports into hourly charts, split by weekdays and weekends, across 18 Big Ten campuses.
• Designed in Figma, then built as a web app and a native SwiftUI iOS app sharing one API, with passwordless sign-in through school email codes.

Node.js, SQLite, vanilla JS, SwiftUI, Figma and Docker. Built with Claude Code.

macOS menu bar app

• Shows synced lyrics for the current Spotify song in a small always-on-top bar, with the next line in gray and a click to switch to album art.
• Reads playback position from Spotify through AppleScript and pulls timed lyrics from lrclib.net, in a single Swift file with no dependencies.

Swift, AppKit and AppleScript. Built with Claude Code.

Google Sheets add-on

• Turns a pasted job link into a row in my application tracker by reading the posting's data from Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and Workday pages, with an optional Claude fallback for pages that don't parse cleanly.

Google Apps Script and the Claude API.

Personal project

• Co-host a self-hosted Linux media server running Jellyfin with secure remote access for users.
• Maintain and upgrade the server software, including the Discord bots that let users request films and download them to our shared library.
• Configured RAID arrays, scheduled backups and restore testing to protect against drive and configuration failures.
• Monitor uptime, storage health and network traffic, and resolve permission and connectivity issues through system logs.

Alpha Kappa Psi, Purdue

• Recruitment season is over, so I'm running a continuous improvement project to standardize our recruiting process and make the handoff to the next leaders smooth.

Multiple companies, remote

• Evaluating model responses and writing test prompts for several AI companies.

Exam prep

• Studying security principles, incident response, access controls, network security and security operations.

Alpha Kappa Psi, Purdue

• Led recruitment for a 150+ member chapter, running a committee of 5 across 8 recruitment events.
• Rebuilt the interview process around standardized rubrics and selected 30 new members from 300+ applicants.
• Served as Pledge Trainer before this role (Jan - Jun 2026), coaching a pledge class of 35.