CS SENIOR · MINOT STATE UNIVERSITY · GRAD 2027 · MICS 2026 PUBLISHED AUTHOR

Toshif Khan

Software engineer who builds the parts most people skip: consensus protocols, sharded services, and systems that survive failure instead of just running the happy path.

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ABOUT
A little about how I work

I'm a Computer Science senior at Minot State University, graduating May 2027, with research accepted at MICS 2026 and hands-on experience building distributed systems: consensus protocols, sharded caches, and RAG pipelines that hold up under real load.

I gravitate toward the unglamorous half of software: race conditions, socket handling, and schema design, the stuff that has to be correct or nothing built on top of it works.

Outside of code, I manage daily operations and crisis response for a 400-resident hall and mentor a team of 13 Resident Assistants at Minot State, and tutor 10–15 CS students a week in data structures and algorithms.

LOCATIONMinot, North Dakota
DEGREEB.S. Computer Science
GRADUATINGMay 2027
EMAILtoshif.khan@ndus.edu
GITHUBgithub.com/ToshifK12
SKILLS
The stack, foundation up
LAYER 01 · LANGUAGES
Languages
Java Python Go TypeScript JavaScript PHP SQL HTML5 CSS3
LAYER 02 · FRAMEWORKS & APIs
Frameworks & APIs
Spring Boot FastAPI Next.js gRPC REST APIs Tailwind CSS
LAYER 03 · DATA
Databases
PostgreSQL (Row Level Security) MySQL Redis Pinecone Supabase (Auth, Storage)
LAYER 04 · INFRA
Cloud & DevOps
AWS Lambda API Gateway Docker Docker Compose nginx GitHub Actions (CI) Vercel Git
LAYER 05 · QUALITY
Testing
Unit Testing Load Testing (wrk) Chaos / Fault-Injection Testing Lighthouse Performance Auditing
EXPERIENCE
Where I've worked
AUGUST 2026 - PRESENT
Software Developer
Minot State University, Minot, ND
Building a grant-funded web app (Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Supabase, PostgreSQL, Vercel) for Minot State Housing and Residence Life that replaces paper and Word-document duty logs with standardized, editable digital reports. Enforced hall-scoped access for 3 roles (RA, Hall Director, Housing Director) at the database layer with PostgreSQL Row Level Security. Implemented passwordless magic-link/OTP login with Supabase Auth and photo/video uploads with Supabase Storage. Built duty-log forms configurable per hall or system-wide, tested with 9 Residence Life stakeholders ahead of official department use.
AUGUST 2026 - PRESENT
Computer Science Tutor
Minot State University, Minot, ND
Tutor 10–15 students weekly in Data Structures & Algorithms, Java, and Python, helping them debug code and reason through algorithms. Run weekly office hours and exam-prep sessions, and created and shared a practice-problem repository for CS students.
MAY 2026 - AUGUST 2026
Web Developer Intern
B&B Insulation, Minot, ND
Raised the production site's mobile Lighthouse Performance score from 62 to 91 by compressing and resizing images, lazy-loading non-critical images, removing unneeded JavaScript and CSS, and adding browser caching for static assets. Rebuilt the PHP/MySQL contact and quote form for mobile use and reliable submission, following which monthly form submissions rose from 8-10 to 15-18. Rebuilt 6 production pages and shipped 8 customer-facing features, including database-driven news and FAQ pages.
AUGUST 2025 - PRESENT
Residence Hall Director
Minot State University, Minot, ND
Manage daily operations and crisis response for a 400-resident hall, run 20+ programming events per semester, and mentor and coordinate a team of 13 Resident Assistants.
SEPTEMBER 2025 - AUGUST 2026
ASTEP Mentor
Advancing Students Toward Education and Employment Program, Minot, ND
Mentored students through the ASTEP program, drawing on leadership, communication, and peer-support skills to help them feel welcomed, connected, and confident while navigating campus life.
AUGUST 2024 - JANUARY 2025
Founder
Beti Suraksha, India
Founded Beti Suraksha, a self-defense products company built around empowering women, handling customer relationships and sales end to end.
MAY 2023 - JUNE 2024
Office Assistant
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Provided administrative and front-office support for a university department, handling day-to-day operational tasks alongside coursework.
MARCH 2023 - JULY 2024
Research Assistant
Arizona State University, Remote
Supported research workflows through structured data collection, analysis, documentation, and synthesis of findings for university research initiatives. Worked in an environment requiring accuracy, independent problem-solving, and clear communication of results.
SEPTEMBER 2022 - APRIL 2023
Food Service Worker
Aramark, Tempe, AZ
Worked food service operations on ASU's Tempe campus alongside coursework.
PROJECTS
Things I've built
Distributed Key-Value Store
0 DATA LOSS · 4 KILLS
A Raft consensus protocol implemented from scratch, including leader election, log replication, and write-ahead-log crash recovery, across 5 nodes in Go and gRPC, covered by 12 unit tests validating core safety invariants. A chaos-testing harness kills random nodes mid-workload; verified zero data loss and full replica convergence across 3,286 writes after 4 kills.
GogRPCRaftDistributed Systems
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URL Shortener at Scale
9,275 REQ/SEC
A horizontally scalable URL-shortening service with a Spring Boot REST API running as 2 stateless instances behind an nginx load balancer, consistent hashing across 3 Redis shards, and Snowflake-style distributed ID generation. Load tested with wrk at 9,275 requests/sec with zero errors using Docker Compose on a single host, with the same test reaching 6,116 requests/sec with zero errors in GitHub Actions CI.
JavaSpring BootRedisDockernginx
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RAG-Based Course Q&A Assistant
100% HIT-RATE@4
A RAG pipeline over lecture transcripts using OpenAI embeddings, Pinecone vector search, and Claude via FastAPI, reaching 100% retrieval hit-rate@4 across 34 eval questions, lifting mean answer-quality F1 from 0.250 to 0.422 (+69%) over an extractive baseline. Deployed on AWS Lambda + API Gateway with per-user session isolation for private, concurrent use by multiple students.
PythonFastAPIPineconeAWS Lambda
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PUBLICATIONS
Peer-reviewed research
Empirical Evaluation of Data Poisoning Attacks in Supervised Learning
MICS 2026
T. Khan and Dr. M. Abusaqer, Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium (MICS), 2026.
Benchmarked label-flipping and backdoor poisoning attacks against Logistic Regression, Linear SVM, and Random Forest on MNIST and Fashion-MNIST, measuring accuracy and attack success rate across poisoning rates.
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Evaluating Quick-Commerce Platforms: A Sentiment and Topic Modeling Analysis of User Reviews
MICS 2025
T. Khan and Dr. M. Abusaqer, Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium (MICS), 2025.
Analyzed 4,620 user reviews across three q-commerce platforms (BlinkIt, Zepto, JioMart) using TF-IDF vectorization and a class-weighted logistic regression classifier, achieving 86% accuracy against a roughly 78% majority-class baseline. Applied LDA topic modeling to surface five actionable themes, including delivery delays, refund and payment issues, and customer service, for platform improvement.
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EDUCATION
Academic background
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Minot State University, Minot, North Dakota
Focus in Software Engineering. Activities: Computer Science Club, International Students Club, Residence Life and Housing.
Honors: 1st Place for research paper, Native Computer Science & Cybersecurity Conference (NCSCC) 2026
3rd Place, MSU Academic Showcase (Spring 2026)
Vice President for Academic Affairs Honor Roll (Spring 2026)
JAN 2025 - EXPECTED MAY 2027
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Activities: Python Users Group, Software Developers Association (SoDA).
AUG 2022 - DEC 2024