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Open to graduate developer roles · Birmingham, UK

I build software
that actually ships.

Computer Science graduate running a web studio that puts real client sites into production — and taking machine learning projects from raw data through to results you can actually interpret.

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Abbas Qadir
Degree
BSc (Hons) Computer Science — Aston University
Experience
Two years freelance, client sites in production
Stack
TypeScript · React · Next.js · Python

Selected work

Things I've built and shipped

Two live client projects and one research project — what the problem was, what I built, and what came out of it.

The AQ Sites homepage, headlined “A website your business can justify, launched in days — not months.”

Web studio · founder2024 — present

AQ Sites

A web design and development studio I run, building and shipping sites for small UK businesses.

I handle the whole pipeline myself: scoping the job with the client, writing the copy, designing the pages, building them, and setting up domain, hosting and business email. Sites are hand-built rather than assembled in a page builder, so they load fast and cost the client nothing to keep running. Fixed price quoted up front, typically live inside a week.

Delivery

Live in 7 days, fixed price

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Vercel
  • SEO
aqsites.co.uk
The Modren Builders homepage, headlined “Built properly start to finish” beside a photo of a completed extension

Client project · end to end2025

Modren Builders

A domestic building contractor in Birmingham with no website and nothing showing up when people searched for them.

Designed, built and deployed end to end. They had the work and the photography but nowhere to send anyone, so the brief was to make the business look established and make contact effortless. I set the brand direction, built the site by hand, put quote and WhatsApp actions within reach on every screen, and set up their Google Business Profile so they surface in local search and on Maps.

Result

One TikTok video drove 3 enquiries in a day

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Vercel
  • Google Business Profile
modren.co.uk

Cell2Cell · 51,047 customers · 58 features · 29% churn

F1-score on the held-out test set, best of seven models
  • XGBoost (tuned)0.489
  • Random Forest (tuned)0.487
  • MLP (tuned)0.457
  • Decision Tree (tuned)0.444
  • Logistic Regression0.443

Final year project · applied ML2026

Predicting Customer Churn with Neural Networks

Does a neural network actually beat gradient boosting at telecom churn prediction? I tested it properly rather than assuming.

Benchmarked a Multi-Layer Perceptron against six traditional and advanced models on the Cell2Cell dataset — 51,047 customers, 58 features, 29% churn. Built the full pipeline: imputation, encoding, SelectKBest feature selection, then a controlled comparison of SMOTE, random under-sampling and class weighting for the imbalance. Under-sampling was applied inside an imblearn pipeline at each CV fold to stop leakage inflating the scores. SHAP analysis identified which customer features actually drive the predictions.

Finding

Tuned XGBoost beat the MLP — F1 0.489 vs 0.457

  • Python
  • scikit-learn
  • XGBoost
  • SHAP
  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • Matplotlib
  • Seaborn
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Technical skills

What I work with

Comfortable across the stack and on the command line — from building and deploying a production Next.js app to cleaning a dataset and benchmarking models in a notebook.

Languages

  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Java
  • SQL
  • HTML
  • CSS

Web & frameworks

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Node.js
  • Spring Boot
  • REST APIs

Data & machine learning

  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • scikit-learn
  • XGBoost
  • SHAP
  • Matplotlib
  • Seaborn

Tooling & workflow

  • Git & GitHub
  • Command line
  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Vercel
  • Jupyter
  • Technical SEO
A laptop on a café table showing browser developer tools open in responsive-design mode while building a site

About

Graduate developer, already shipping

I'm a Computer Science graduate from Aston University, based in Birmingham. Alongside the degree I started AQ Sites, a small web studio — which means I've spent two years doing the parts of the job that coursework doesn't cover: scoping work with real clients, making design calls, deploying to production, and then supporting what I shipped.

On the engineering side I work mostly in TypeScript and React with Next.js, and in Python for anything data-shaped. My final year project was a full machine learning pipeline — benchmarking a neural network against gradient boosting on 51,000 telecom records, handling class imbalance without leaking across validation folds, and using SHAP to explain what the model had actually learned.

I'm looking for a graduate or junior developer role where I can keep building things that go in front of people.

Education

  1. 2023 — 2026

    BSc (Hons) Computer Science

    Aston University

    Final year project in applied machine learning. Coursework across algorithms, databases, programming languages and software engineering.

  2. 2020 — 2022

    Level 3 Business and Finance

    Dudley College of Technology

Experience

  1. 2024 — present

    Founder & Developer

    AQ Sites

    Designing, building and deploying websites for small UK businesses. Client-facing from first call through to launch and handover.

  2. 2023

    Virtual Developer Programme

    Bentley Systems × Enactus — iTwin4Good

    Contributed to ideation, design and implementation of a virtual development project on the iTwin platform.

Contact

Let's talk

Open to graduate and junior developer roles, and to freelance builds. Whether it's a role, a project or a question about something on this page — send it over and I'll reply.

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