# Fardin Iqbal

**Software Engineer** | New York, NY | [fardiniqbal.com](https://fardiniqbal.com)

Full-stack engineer who solo-built a 6-product healthcare SaaS ecosystem replacing $61K/yr in enterprise software. 200+ users in production across four agencies in New York's Early Intervention market. Every line of code is mine; every deployment, every user-facing bug, every three-AM alert.

First-generation college student finishing B.S. Computer Science at Stony Brook University (May 2026). Selected for the Bottom Line Scholars program. Previously attended The Bronx High School of Science. BJJ club treasurer, assistant coach, and competitor.

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## What I Build

### Tiny Thoughts — Replaced $3,000/mo Rethink BA

Clinical data collection for ABA therapists — the people who teach children with autism through structured repetition. Therapists record trials on tablets in noisy classrooms, so every touch target is 140px wide and every interaction forgives imprecision. The mastery engine watches the data and tells the therapist when a child is ready to move forward.

**Tech:** Rails 8.1, PostgreSQL, Turbo, Stimulus, Tailwind v4, Fly.io
**Metrics:** Users: 37 | Trials Recorded: 22,940+ | Children Managed: 79 | LOC: 86K

### Tiny Steps CMS — Replaced $1,700/mo ProviderSoft

Practice management for four home health agencies in New York. Therapists document visits on their phones. Supervisors cosign remotely. The system tracks sixty credential types and locks anyone out the instant a critical one expires — before an auditor ever has to ask.

**Tech:** Next.js 16, Neon PostgreSQL, Drizzle, next-auth v5, Fly.io
**Metrics:** Users: 42 | Patients: 205 | Invoiced: $45K+ | LOC: 99K

### Tiny Time Keeper — Replaced $400/mo WorkEasy — built in 2 days

Time tracking built in two days because the agency needed it yesterday. Employees clock in on a wall-mounted iPad. Managers see who’s working in real time. Timesheets generate themselves. Usage grew 2.4x in fourteen weeks because it just works.

**Tech:** Next.js 16, Convex, Better Auth, Stripe, Playwright, Vercel
**Metrics:** Hours Tracked: 5,692 | Employees: 33 | Tests: 537 | Deploy Success: 97%

### AI Email Scraper — Saves 20+ hours/month of manual data entry

Every five minutes, this system reads the agency’s inbox, understands the referral buried inside each email, and writes structured data to a spreadsheet. What used to take someone four hours a day now takes fifteen minutes of review.

**Tech:** Express.js, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Microsoft Graph API, Render
**Metrics:** Referrals/mo: ~150 | Time Saved: 20+ hrs/mo | Infra Cost: $0/mo

### TinyToes Auditor — On-device AI, zero PHI exposure

A clinical document validator that runs a 3.8-billion-parameter AI model entirely in the browser. No data leaves the device — ever. Therapists upload PDFs and the system checks dates, terminology, contacts, and template compliance without a single byte touching the cloud.

**Tech:** Next.js 16, WebLLM, WebGPU, pdfjs-dist, Framer Motion

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## Experience

### Software Engineer — Big Minds Tiny Hands / Tiny Platforms (Dec 2025 - Present)

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

### Cyber Security Intern — New York City Housing Authority (Jun 2025 - Jan 2026)

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

### Design & Construction Technology Intern — Beyer Blinder Belle (Jun 2024 - Aug 2024)

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.

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## Education

**Stony Brook University** — B.S. Computer Science (Aug 2022 - May 2026)

Coursework: Systems Fundamentals I, Systems Fundamentals II, Computer Security Fundamentals, Web Security, Offensive Security, Data Structures, Programming Abstractions, Software Development, Software Engineering, Theory of Computation, Analysis of Algorithms, Computer Networks, Data Science, Linear Algebra, Probability & Statistics

**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.

Previously: The Bronx High School of Science

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## Skills

**Languages:** TypeScript, Ruby, Python, C, SQL, Swift
**Frontend:** React 19, Next.js 16, Tailwind CSS v4, Framer Motion, SwiftUI
**Backend:** Rails 8.1, Convex, PostgreSQL, Drizzle, Express.js, FastAPI
**Infrastructure:** Vercel, Fly.io, Render, AWS, Docker, GitHub Actions
**AI:** Claude Code, Gemini API, OpenAI API, WebLLM, WebGPU
**Security:** Splunk, CrowdStrike Falcon, HIPAA Compliance

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## Writing

- **[The Correspondence: On Truth, Untruth, and Whether It Matters](https://fardiniqbal.com/blog/the-correspondence)** (22 min read): Two friends write letters to each other about God, reason, and whether a conversation is possible when one of them prefers untruth to truth.
- **[The Cost of Looking Closely](https://fardiniqbal.com/blog/the-cost-of-looking-closely)** (14 min read): There is a room I keep returning to in my memory, and every time I enter it, someone has already ruined it by mentioning the future.
- **[Systems Are Lossy Compression](https://fardiniqbal.com/blog/systems-are-lossy-compression)** (17 min read): Every system you adopt is a compression algorithm applied to reality. Compression always loses data. The question is what you are willing to lose.
- **[An Attempt to Find the Axioms of Jiu-Jitsu](https://fardiniqbal.com/blog/axioms-of-jiu-jitsu)** (14 min read): What if grappling has first principles the way mathematics does? Not techniques, but axioms. The irreducible truths from which everything else follows.
- **[From Email Chaos to AI-Powered Automation](https://fardiniqbal.com/blog/from-email-chaos-to-ai-automation)** (15 min read): Someone was spending four hours a day typing emails into a spreadsheet. I built the system that made that job disappear.
- **[Building Prometheus: Notes on Personal AI Infrastructure](https://fardiniqbal.com/blog/building-prometheus)** (13 min read): What happens when you stop using AI as a tool and start building it as infrastructure — persistent memory, specialized skills, and a system that genuinely improves with use.
- **[Why Love Needs No Reason](https://fardiniqbal.com/blog/why-love-needs-no-reason)** (13 min read): Why the deepest commitments in life — to people, to craft, to ideas — resist justification. And why that’s not a flaw.

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## Contact

- **Email:** iqbal11219@gmail.com
- **GitHub:** [FardinIqbal](https://github.com/FardinIqbal)
- **LinkedIn:** [fardin-iqbal](https://linkedin.com/in/fardin-iqbal)
- **Site:** https://fardiniqbal.com

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