Arif Asim Shaikh

AI Intern

ReliablyME Inc.

2026-08 - Present

- Contributing to a production Azure to AWS migration at a 10-person Toronto startup, running tests against migrated systems while working directly with the founder and co-founder. - Refining LLM prompts to improve function efficiency on the team removing the dedicated frontend requirement, enabling the company's accountability tracker to run independently across desktop and mobile.

Founder

SkillProof

2026-02 - Present

- Founded SkillProof, a pre-launch platform turning frontline retail performance data into verified transferable skill profiles, after seeing coworkers' negotiation and troubleshooting skills go unrecorded on resumes. - Validated the premise at Best Buy across 5 to 10 informal sessions translating colleagues' floor experience into resume language, with one advisor converting retail work into an auto claims advisor role in Toronto. - Building on Firebase and AWS toward a December 2026 subscription launch, evaluating Node.js and Java for the backend and reusing authentication patterns proven on a prior shipped product.

President

Laurier PSA

2025-09 - Present

- Elected President after a term as VP Corporate, now leading 6 executives and restructuring an oversized executive team into essential functions for a 300-person community.

Full-Stack Developer

SCOP.global

2026-08 - 2026-12

- Authored a 40+ section product and architecture specification covering sitemap, design system, content model, and MVP acceptance criteria, used as the build brief for the entire project. - Scoped, built, and deployed the public-facing site for an international professional society connecting Pakistani oncologists, using an AI-assisted workflow to compress build cycles.

Product Owner/Backend Developer

Hawks Path

2026-01 - 2026-05

- Served as Product Owner and Backend Developer on an agile team building an academic advising platform with degree planners, dashboards, and alerting across 50+ simulated planning scenarios. - Built an automated pipeline parsing raw academic records into structured advising briefs, converting transcript data into decision-ready summaries.

Co-developer

Insurance Policy Management System (Database Application)

2026-01 - 2026-05

- Co-designed a normalized insurance schema in 3NF and BCNF modeling 10+ entities including weak entities and multivalued attributes, evolving an EER diagram into the final ER model in MySQL Workbench. - Wrote 20+ analytical SQL queries using correlated subqueries, window functions (RANK, ROW_NUMBER), HAVING clauses, and views, including ranking agents by claims volume per region. - Recognized as the top project among 40+ teams in a 150-student course, posted on the course MyLearningSpace page, with a public GitHub repo documenting the schema and ER diagram.

Full Stack Developer

StudyBuddyapp

2025-08 - 2026-07

- Built and launched a study-matching web app for university students (React, Tailwind CSS, Firebase Authentication, Vercel), drawing 200+ unique visitors and 50+ authenticated sessions within 24 hours of public launch. - Ran a two-week closed pilot with 30 users before exam season, collecting feedback through direct messages and live observation, surfacing image upload failures and a Stripe test-key misconfiguration ahead of launch. - Integrated Stripe donations behind a prompt fired every seventh interaction, generating $500+ over the project's life and inbound outreach from US-based professionals with startup investment backgrounds. - Shipped Google authentication, optional location sharing built without GPS access to protect student privacy, and a user reporting system routing flags to an admin portal after the first 200 users. - Implemented real-time session sync on Firebase Realtime Database so posted study sessions appear instantly and persist across devices.

Geek Squad/Computer Solutions Advisor

Best Buy Canada

2025-08 - 2026-07

- Closed a $10,800 single-visit sale for a family of five new to Canada, scoping needs across 15+ devices then running carrier activations, data transfers, and Windows language and regional setup in one 3-hour session. - Generated $50K average monthly revenue across roughly 30 transactions weekly on a 15-hour schedule, peaking at $80K, ranking top part-time associate in store and top 50 in a district of 400+. - Diagnosed and resolved Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android issues as the store's Geek Squad escalation point, daily through four months in Mobile and roughly three shifts weekly in Computer Solutions.

Contract Software Developer

BooksBeyondWords

2024-01 - 2026-01

- Integrated Stripe checkout into the storefront, supporting 100+ live transactions and resolving 3 to 4 failed payments across a two-year maintenance window, building on a prior Stripe integration from FitConnect. - Built an admin dashboard from custom code and Shopify admin extensions, replacing spreadsheet bookkeeping with one interface the owner ran herself for orders, inventory, and reporting. - Automated order processing, inventory reconciliation, and reporting for a bookstore running on manual bookkeeping, combining Shopify Flow with custom inventory scripts to remove manual entry error from daily operations. - Cut storefront load times roughly 35-40% by migrating the site off self-managed infrastructure onto Shopify across a 100+ product catalog, resolving the bottleneck slowing customers at browse and checkout. - Won a $2,500 contract through cold outreach at a bookstore event, then delivered end to end as sole developer across storefront, checkout, inventory, and admin tooling.

Co-Founder

Trishop Inc.

2023-01 - 2023-12

- Co-founded an Apple reseller importing US and Canadian stock into Karachi on a three-way equal split, generating $15K USD annually at 15 to 20 percent margins while owning inventory and supplier relations. - Sold 60+ new and 100+ used units to 120 to 250 customers through a 3,000-follower Instagram presence and Facebook Marketplace, liquidating roughly 20 percent of inventory through Pakistani retail suppliers.