👋 Hi there, I'm Sohaib Maqsood

🚀 About Me

Software engineer based in Manchester, UK.

• 💼 Junior Developer at an AI infrastructure company, working across databases, backend development and Linux
• 🛠️ Previously a software engineer at Bitbash, building full-stack web apps, automation tools and cloud deployments
• 🎓 MSc Cyber Security at Manchester Metropolitan University (2025–26). My dissertation studied how a backdoor can spread through knowledge distillation, and how to detect it from the teacher model's outputs
• 🔐 Interested in AI security, which I explore in my spare time, and in doing research in it in the longer term

💻 Tech Stack

Languages:   Python, SQL, C, C++, Bash, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java
Databases:   PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
Backend:     FastAPI, Django, Node.js, REST APIs
Frontend:    React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS
DevOps:      Docker, AWS, GitHub Actions, Linux, Git
ML:          PyTorch

📫 Let's Connect!

Feel free to reach out for collaborations or just a chat:

• 📧 Email

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