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K — The King

I read the whole board before I commit.

I’m Obeida Alwani — a full-stack engineer finishing computer science at UConn, and a lifelong competitive chess player. I build products end to end: React and TypeScript on the surface, Node and Python underneath, AWS holding it up.

  • Peak Elo 2109
  • Top 1%
  • AR · HE · FR
  • UConn CS '26

N — The Knight

Work that shipped.

Three builds, annotated the way a game is.

  • !! Brilliant1–0

    KwiddeX Intelligence

    Winner — 2026 UConn Engineering Senior Design

    A document-authenticity and Questioned Document Examination platform, co-founded and taken from a university senior-design sponsorship to a deployed product.

    Deterministic PDF forensics, OCR extraction, and SHA-256 fingerprinting feed a vision-based scoring pipeline that emits server-generated PDF reports. React and Vite on the front, TypeScript REST APIs handling multipart uploads to 15 MB behind it, auth on bcrypt and HMAC-SHA256 signed tokens. Migrated deployment off cPanel to containerized services across 40+ reviewed pull requests.

    React · TypeScript · Node.js · Express · MySQL · Docker

  • ! Strong1–0

    LLM Prompt Injection Detection

    A middleware classifier that catches jailbreaks, instruction overrides, and context manipulation before they reach an LLM endpoint.

    Fine-tuned a lightweight transformer against a curated set of adversarial and benign inputs, then served it from FastAPI on AWS Lambda so it can sit in front of any model endpoint.

    Python · FastAPI · Hugging Face · AWS Lambda

  • !? Interesting1–0

    Infrastructure-as-Code Security Pipeline

    A CI/CD pipeline that scans Terraform for misconfiguration before anything reaches production.

    Policy-as-code guardrails with custom rules beyond the default rulesets, plus a dashboard tracking scan results over time.

    Terraform · GitHub Actions · Docker · Checkov · tfsec

!! brilliant · ! strong · !? interesting

R — The Rook

Genius at Apple.

I read iOS and macOS device logs to isolate hardware, software, account, and configuration failures — Wi-Fi, VPN, MDM enrollment, identity — and turn the root cause into something a person can act on. Apple ID, Activation Lock, and recovery-key escalations run under strict privacy protocols.

  1. 1.
    AppleNow

    Genius

    Trumbull, CT · Sept 2025 – Present

  2. 2.
    KwiddeX Intelligence

    Co-Founder & Lead Engineer

    Remote · Oct 2025 – May 2026

  3. 3.
    Outlier AI

    AI/ML Evaluator

    Remote · Feb 2024 – Sept 2025

  4. 4.
    Amazon E-Commerce

    Operator & Automation Developer

    Self-employed · Remote · Jan 2023 – Dec 2025

B — The Bishop

Certified on both colors.

A bishop only ever sees one color, so they come in pairs. Mine are cloud and security.

Light squares

Cloud & platform

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
  • AWS Certified Developer – Associate
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Dark squares

Security & systems

  • CompTIA Security+
  • CompTIA Network+
  • Microsoft SC-200 Security Operations Analyst
  • Apple Certified iOS Technician

Education

University of Connecticut

B.S. Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics

Storrs, CT · May 2026

P — The Pawns

Four languages. One perspective.

Four pawns on one rank: the dark men run left to right, the light men right to left.

  • English

    English

    Native

  • Arabic

    العربية

    Native

  • French

    Français

    Conversational

  • Hebrew

    עברית

    Conversational

Q — Promotion

Your move.

You reached the last rank. I’m open to full-stack and platform work — say hello.

Connecticut