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Styleum
Existing wardrobe apps take 20+ minutes to set up and lack habit mechanics. Styleum gets users styled in 3 minutes with a hybrid AI pipeline at $0.002/call — 10x cheaper than competitors.
●i make AI systems 10x cheaper
sameer akhtar
Software Engineer & Founder
Every styling request on Styleum costs $0.002. That's a 6-stage AI pipeline processing your wardrobe for less than a penny.
Engineering at BRUNOSOFT. CS at DePaul.
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Moderation
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Vision
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experience
2025
STYLEUMDec 2025 – Present
Founder & CEO
6-stage AI pipeline: AWS Rekognition, BiRefNet, Florence-2, FashionSigLIP (768-dim), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, pgvector. Total cost: $0.01/item processed. FashionSigLIP over CLIP—74% vs 47% fashion retrieval accuracy.
Next.js · Hono · Railway · pgvector · GeminiBRUNOSOFTOct 2025 – Present
Software Engineering Intern
Migrating 100+ AngularJS components to Angular 17 via ngUpgrade. Built Docker/Kubernetes CI pipeline that cut deploy times from 45min to 12min. Team of 5 engineers.
Angular · Docker · Kubernetes · PHPAPPLEJul 2025 – Nov 2025
Specialist
Diagnosed and resolved iOS/macOS issues for 50+ clients monthly. Focused on enterprise MDM configurations and multi-device sync failures. 95%+ satisfaction rating.
iOS · macOS · MDM2022
AMERICAN COACH LIMOUSINEJul 2022 – Feb 2024
Systems Integration Specialist
Built internal tools that cut partner communication from 24hrs to 8hrs average. Managed software integrations for 15+ corporate transportation clients.
Operations · Software Integrationabout
I care about the details most people skip. The animation that's 200ms faster. The API call that costs $0.002 instead of $0.02. The feature that users don't notice—because it doesn't get in their way.
Right now I'm building Styleum, because getting dressed shouldn't require a 20-minute app setup. By day, I'm at BRUNOSOFT wrestling legacy code into modern Angular—migration is where you learn what “at scale” actually means.
Co-founded DePaul's CS Club to build the community I wished existed. I write a weekly tech newsletter for 300+ builders.
When I'm not shipping code, I shoot on a Fujifilm X-T30 II. Photography taught me that composition matters—in pixels and in prose.
JavaScript · Python · Java · React · Next.js · Node.js · Docker · AWS
education
DePaul University · BS Computer Science · 3.8 GPA · Jul 2027
contact
I'm always up to chat.
I'm looking for Summer 2026 opportunities in software engineering or AI/ML—somewhere I can learn fast and contribute meaningfully.
Open to full-time internships, contract work, or interesting collaborations.
Greater Chicago Area