Sunshine - What I'm Up to During the Day
Work Experience
Amazon
Software Development Engineer
June 2025 - present
Seattle, WA
Center for AI Safety
Software Engineer
October 2024 - May 2025
San Francisco, CA
- Built and managed a 0-1 evaluation platform website to increase AI safety ($1.96 billion market) [React, Next.js, Typescript, Tailwind CSS].
- Increased topic sourcing coverage to create a database of 200 comparisons for the website [MongoDB, API calls, JSON].
DayDream Ventures
Venture Fellow
October 2024 - December 2024
San Francisco, CA
- Sourcing and writing company memos for startups in AI, Consumer, and Community.
- Attending weekly workshops on topics like venture capital, startups, and entrepreneurship.
Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research
Generative AI Researcher and PM
May 2023 - December 2023
Berkeley, CA
Berkeley Natural Language Processing Group Undergraduate Researcher (Advisors: Professor Daniel Klein, PhD Student Eve Fleisig)
- Scoped research goal to evaluate subjective NLG tasks and prepared dataset (141,000 data points) into training and test files [Python, JSON].
- Fine-tuned supervised learning model to evaluate its ability to determine humor (70% accuracy) [Python, PyTorch, OpenAI API].
- Conducted literature review and presented on effects of measuring annotator responses to evaluate natural language generation models.
Google
Computer Science Research Mentorship Program Scholar
September 2023 - December 2023
Berkeley, CA
- Cohort 2023b. Received AI/ML & HCI research mentorship from Software Engineers. Presented talk on humor in natural language generation models.
UnitedHealth Group
Experience Design Intern
June 2022 - August 2022
Irvine, CA
- Designed Onboarding Platform (saved annual $19.2 million, 38,000 users) based on business model and user feedback [Figma, Miro].
- 1 of 5 selected to organize a 2-day Human-Centered Design Workshop (1200+ members) with C-level Executives & conduct user research.
- Facilitated enterprise-wide design system transition and analyzed human-centered AI applications in healthcare [HTML, CSS, Javascript].
University of Southern California
Artificial Intelligence Research Intern
June 2021 - October 2021
Los Angeles, CA
- Published peer-reviewed NSF research paper of STEM Minority Wikidata bot and optimized categorization process for 6 databases [SPARQL].
- Identified 2 real-time algorithm matching errors of Table Linking Software and increased representation by 50% [Python, KGTK].
ExoAnalytic Solutions
Software Engineering Intern
June 2020 - August 2020
Irvine, CA
- Remodeled 2 algorithms and extracted vital satellite data from a database for clients and improved user experience [JSON, Python].
Projects
zainashaik.com
Personal Website
![Evaluation of AI Model [BAIR/Google]](/projects/IMG_5776.JPG)
Evaluation of AI Model [BAIR/Google]
Comparing Natural Language Generation Model’s Ability to Evaluate Humorous Captions
Seasons
Sustainable Fashion Stylist Chatbot
SoulSpeak
Therapy Chatbot LLM with Emotional AI
n-tuitive:)
Journaling Website with Sentiment Analysis and AI Generated Journal Prompts
![Analyzing Race and Citizenship Bias in Wikidata [USC NSF REU] [Published at IEEE MASS 2021]](/projects/WikidataPoster1.png)
Analyzing Race and Citizenship Bias in Wikidata [USC NSF REU] [Published at IEEE MASS 2021]
Poster Abstract Paper about AI Ethics and Representation in Wikidata
Education
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science
Berkeley Certificate in Design Innovation
SCET Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Technology
Awards:
- UC Berkeley:
- Regents' and Chancellor's Scholar (RCSA) (Top 1% of Incoming Students) [March 2020]
- STEM Excellence through Equity & Diversity (SEED) Honors Research Scholar ($80k Stipend for AI Research) [March 2020]
- Other:
- Google CS Research Mentorship Program 2023b [Sept. 2023]
Classes:
Computer Science Major: CS194-196: Responsible Generative AI, CS160: User Interfaces, CS169a: Cloud Computing...
Certifications:
- Amazon Web Services:
- Google Cloud:
Organizations:
- FEMTech Berkeley - President [2020-2024]
- Regents' and Chancellor's Scholars Association - Chair of Operations [2020-2024]
- SEED Scholars Honors Program - Research Scholar and Mentor [2020-2024]
- Girls Who Code - Member [2016-present]
- Rewriting the Code - Member [2024-present]