Backend engineer. I work on the compute layer of academic planning software — the part that has to be correct and fast at the same time.

Most of what I've built comes back to questions like these: how to improve the process?, why is this slow?, and what's the smallest change that makes it fast?
Designing a stochastic algorithm, A GPU path tracer, a genetic algorithm on CUDA, and a degree-audit engine in Django turn out to have more in common than they look.

• Working on the audit engine at Stellic — the system that computes where a student actually stands against their degree requirements
• Taking latency out of audit-computation APIs, mostly by finding the work that never needed to happen
• Modeling planning and compliance rules.
• Day to day: Python · Django · Postgres · Celery· ElasticSearch · pytest

Corpora Generation for Urdu Grammatical Error Correction Findings of ACL 2026

Urdu grammatical error correction was stuck for a boring reason: there was almost no annotated data to train on. We mined real mistakes from the edit history of Urdu Wikipedia, learned the patterns behind them, and injected similar errors back into correct sentences — synthesizing aligned incorrect/correct pairs at scale. That's UrduGEC-Synthetic. We paired it with UrduGEC-Gold, a human benchmark built from real student exam papers, then fine-tuned models on the synthetic data and evaluated against the gold set to show the generated corpus actually holds up.

Pipeline code: gec_pipeline

accelerated_small_pt — A path tracer rebuilt on Taichi so it runs on the GPU. Small enough to hold entirely in your head, which makes it a good place to learn where parallel speedups actually come from.

IMGA_cuda — Island Model Genetic Algorithm on CUDA. Populations evolve in parallel across islands and migrate between them; the interesting part is the migration topology, not the fitness function.

ats — An applicant tracking system. Where I do product-shaped work instead of compute-shaped work, and remember that most software problems are people problems.

I write things down occasionally at burhanuddin6.github.io/blogsite.

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