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First-generation college student. Solo healthcare SaaS developer. Based in New York.

Bio

I build software the way I was taught to solve problems — from first principles, with whatever I have, until it works. Over the past year, that approach has produced twelve production applications, a hundred repositories, and nearly three thousand commits. More importantly, it replaced sixty-one thousand dollars of enterprise software for a healthcare agency that couldn't afford to keep paying for tools that didn't understand their work.

I'm the first in my family to go to college. Stony Brook University, computer science, final semester. I was selected for Bottom Line— a six-year program that bets on first-generation students and stays with them through graduation. They gave me a coach and a framework. I brought the rest.

When a pediatric therapy agency needed software, they didn't hire a team. They hired me. I became responsible for everything — time tracking, practice management, clinical data collection, case management, billing, compliance. Six applications. Four agencies. Two hundred users who depend on what I built to do their jobs. The children on their caseloads depend on it too, though they'll never know my name.

Before I wrote my first line of JavaScript, I wrote C. Memory allocators. Concurrent game servers. POSIX job schedulers. I wanted to understand how computers actually work before I started telling them what to build. That foundation shows up in everything I make — I think about memory, about concurrency, about what happens at the edges.

I coach Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu at Stony Brook — no-gi, thirty students, twice a week. And I read philosophy the way some people read self-help: not to sound interesting at dinner parties, but because Nietzsche and Marcus Aurelius and Camus were honest about how hard it is to live deliberately. That honesty is more useful than any framework.

Experience

Dec 2025 - Present

New York, NY

Software Engineer

Big Minds Tiny Hands / Tiny Platforms · Contract

Sole developer for a pediatric therapy agency’s entire technology stack. Six production applications serving four agencies across New York’s Early Intervention market. Every line of code is mine; every deployment, every user-facing bug, every three-AM alert.

  • Replaced three enterprise platforms, saving the agency $5,100 every month
  • Tiny Time Keeper: 5,692 employee-hours tracked, 33 employees, 742 shifts, 537 automated tests
  • Tiny Steps CMS: 42 users across 4 agencies, 205 patients, $45K invoiced, 2,375 test cases
  • Tiny Thoughts: 37 users, 22,940+ discrete trials, 877 commits. Replaced $3K/mo Rethink BA
  • Built shared infrastructure across all apps — a component library, validators, and configuration packages that keep six codebases consistent
  • HIPAA-compliant from the foundation: row-level security, AES-256-GCM encryption, audit trails, credential lockout, SSN encryption at rest
Next.js 16Rails 8.1PostgreSQLConvexBetter AuthStripeDrizzleVercelFly.io

Jun 2025 - Jan 2026

Hybrid, New York, NY

Cyber Security Intern

New York City Housing Authority · Internship

One of two interns selected for cybersecurity at the largest public housing authority in North America — responsible for the digital safety of infrastructure that serves four hundred thousand New Yorkers.

  • Monitored and investigated security events across Splunk and CrowdStrike Falcon
  • Assisted in incident response — triage, threat analysis, and remediation
  • Reviewed vulnerability scan data and learned to prioritize risk by impact, not severity score
  • Worked across endpoint protection, data loss prevention, and security control implementation
SplunkCrowdStrike FalconVeracodeZscalerDefender XDR

Jun 2024 - Aug 2024

New York, NY

Design & Construction Technology Intern

Beyer Blinder Belle · Internship

Replaced fragile automation — Power Automate flows and Excel macros — with Python scripts that still run daily, a year after my internship ended.

  • Built Python automation for BIM file management with a centralized Tkinter interface
  • Automated execution via Windows Task Scheduler with logging, retries, and failure alerts
  • Built SQLite storage and PowerBI dashboards for monitoring file system health
  • Documented to PEP8. Still generating ROI eighteen months later.
PythonSQLitePowerBITkinter

Oct 2023 - Dec 2023

New York, NY

Marketing Intern

The Hardy Group · Internship

Migrated a CRM from Salesforce to Airtable and built the data entry protocols the team still uses.

    SalesforceAirtable

    Sep 2021 - Aug 2022

    Remote

    Web Developer / Team Lead

    International Socioeconomics Laboratory · Remote

    Led teams of ten students in building websites from scratch. Taught people to code who had never written a line — which taught me that explaining is the deepest form of understanding.

    • Led ten-person teams through full website builds
    • Taught teammates to write their first HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
    HTMLCSSJavaScript

    Education

    Stony Brook University

    B.S. Computer Science · Aug 2022 - May 2026

    Coursework: CSE 320 (Systems Fundamentals II), CSE 363 (Offensive Security), Computer Networks, Data Science & ML

    Bottom Line Scholar: Selected for a six-year program that bets on first-generation college students and invests in their success from enrollment through career.

    Treasurer and assistant coach, BJJ Club. Taught no-gi classes for thirty-plus students.

    Previously: The Bronx High School of Science

    What Others Say

    “It was a pleasure working with Fardin during his internship at Beyer Blinder Belle. He was consistently professional and detail-oriented, and did a great job on his internship project. Fardin was extremely helpful in moving our scheduled Revit automation workflows into Python, and the project is still generating ROI to the present day.”

    Matthew Breau

    Associate, Design Computation Specialist at Beyer Blinder Belle

    Skills

    Languages

    TypeScriptRubyPythonCSQL / PLpgSQLSwiftHTML/CSS

    Frontend

    React 19Next.js 14-16Tailwind CSS v4Framer MotionRadix UISwiftUI

    Backend & Data

    Rails 8.1ConvexPostgreSQL (Neon)DrizzleExpress.jsFastAPItRPCInngest

    Auth & Payments

    Better Authnext-auth v5ClerkDeviseStripe

    Infrastructure

    VercelFly.ioRenderAWS (ECS, ALB, S3)DockerKamalTerraformGitHub Actions

    Testing & CI

    Playwright E2EVitestfast-checkSentryCodecov

    AI & ML

    Claude CodeGemini APIOpenAI APIWebLLM / WebGPUscikit-learnPandasNumPy

    Security & Compliance

    Splunk (SIEM)CrowdStrike Falcon (EDR)HIPAA ComplianceRLS / Encryption at RestScapy

    Domain

    Healthcare SaaSNY Early InterventionEDI X12 837P/835ABA Clinical WorkflowsMulti-Tenant Architecture