Software Development Engineer Intern · Amazon
- Summer 2026
I'm Esam, a Harvard-trained software engineer who turns complex problems into reliable, well-built systems. From backend infrastructure at Amazon to ophthalmology AI research at Harvard Medical and public-interest platforms with Tech for Social Good, I build software that ships and matters.

01 · Experience
02 · Organizations
Linked sites belong to the organizations and are not personal projects. They appear here as community involvement, not engineering work.
03 · Projects
A visualization tool that turns dense financial data into something you can actually read.

Problem
Raw market and financial datasets are noisy, fragmented, and slow to interpret — analysts and curious users lose signal in the structure.
Solution
Built a graph‑based exploration tool with a clean UI for navigating market relationships, time series, and connected entities. Iterated on the interaction model based on user sessions to make complex data feel browsable.
Impact
Designed to make financial information faster to interpret. Iterations from 100+ user sessions drove a measurable lift in weekly active use and held 99.9% uptime in production.
What I built
An AI analytics platform guiding community investment decisions across a 24‑state healthcare network.

Problem
CommonSpirit Health's community investment teams worked from fragmented spreadsheets and manual workflows — hard to compare, validate, or surface trends across hundreds of communities.
Solution
Engineered AI‑assisted dashboards, batch uploads, validation workflows, and multi‑year trend analysis on Next.js + Supabase, replacing manual processes with a decision‑ready interface for community investment.
Impact
Guides $400M in community investments across 2,300+ care sites and 200+ communities — improving reporting cadence, trend visibility, and how teams prioritize resources at scale.
What I built
A data management platform for Lamplight Literacy — replacing spreadsheets with a real student records system.

Problem
Lamplight Women's Literacy serves adult learners through ESOL and Healthcare Careers Pathway programs. Student data lived across spreadsheets, files, intake records, advising notes, assessments, and enrollment records — slow to retrieve, hard to analyze, easy to lose.
Solution
Built a database‑backed platform unifying registration, enrollment, assessments, advising notes, goals, and outcomes. MVP supports student input, class‑level student views, and admin maintenance — with search, filters, sort, CSV import/export, manual entry, detailed student records, and an admin whitelist.
Impact
Built for a nonprofit serving roughly 100 adult learners per year from 25+ countries. Replaces scattered spreadsheet workflows with a foundation for program tracking, advising, and reporting.
What I built
04 · Skills
Languages
Used for · Kotlin + Java powering Amazon's connected‑vehicle feature platform.
Frameworks & Tools
Used for · React + Supabase + Next.js for T4SG dashboards and student platforms.
Domains
Used for · Python + PyTorch for ophthalmology AI research at Harvard Medical.
05 · Leadership
I build tools and communities around people, not the other way around.
01 · Ownership
Take the messy problem end‑to‑end. Define the scope, ship the cut, and stay accountable for what's actually in users' hands.
02 · Mentorship
The work multiplies when the people around it grow. I invest in mentees, teammates, and the next class behind me.
03 · Systems thinking
Most engineering problems are organizational. I look for the system underneath, then build the tool that makes it run.
06 · Contact
Reach out for software engineering, AI/data systems, product engineering, and product‑minded technical roles, or just to talk shop.