Open to Summer 2027 internships · May–Aug

Danial Changez

I build internal tools, REST APIs and embedded systems.

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Work

The Co-operators · Guelph, ON

Jun 2026 – Present

Designed and built a REST API on Azure Kubernetes Service and tools that manage 10,000+ Windows devices.

Jan 2025 – Aug 2025

Automated the support team's slowest fixes, cutting black-screen incidents by 70%.

Hardware + software · 6-person course team

What: A knee-rehab wearable that counts reps for 5 exercises and shows live knee angles on a phone.
How: Two IMUs on an ESP32-S3, fused with a Madgwick filter, streamed over BLE at 10 Hz to a Kotlin app.
My part: All the hardware, firmware and app, from schematic to soldered board.

Code

Software

What: Every app in my homelab gets a proxy route and a local hostname within a minute of its container starting.
How: A Python service reconciles Docker, TrueNAS and a JSON hosts list with Nginx Proxy Manager's REST API and Pi-hole.
Detail: It tags every route it creates, so it never edits routes added by hand.

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Hardware

What: Playable Tetris on a Nexys A7 with save slots and a high-score table.
How: Verilog game logic and a custom 640×480, 60 fps VGA renderer, with debounced breadboard buttons.
Result: Meets timing at 50 MHz.

Code

3×3 multiplier in VHDL as an AXI4-Lite peripheral on a Zynq-7000.

Exports a Guelph class schedule to Google Calendar, Outlook or ICS.

Single-cycle CPU in VHDL, built with a course team.