Shuaib Shuaib Yusuf

Shuaib Shuaib Yusuf

Software Engineer
NLP for African Languages

Computer science undergraduate working on natural language processing for low-resource African languages. Research interests include low-resource NLP, machine translation, and multilingual NLP. Backend engineering background with a focus on data integrity and clean, efficient systems.

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https://sysa.pages.dev
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Shuaib Shuaib Yusuf
ORCiD
0009-0006-9440-1711

Education

– present

Bachelor in Computer Science from Northwest University, Kano with GPA of 4.69 / 5 (in progress)

Courses

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Algorithms and Complexity
  • Computer Architecture
  • Data Management
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Software Development & Problem Solving

Publications

Silent Errors in Low-Resource MT Data: Auditing the Hausa Subset of MAFAND-MT by Shuaib Shuaib Yusuf, Ndefreke Sam, Jeremiah Digho, Elizabeth Mallim

Preprint in preparation. arXiv forthcoming.

Experience

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Undergraduate Research Fellow at Wale University

Research on detecting silent errors in web-scraped Hausa machine translation data.

Highlights

  • Built a deterministic, three-stage auditing pipeline in Python (language/script ID, length-ratio, and numeric/hashtag alignment checks) for the Hausa subset of MAFAND-MT, logging every pair's status to a SQLite ledger.
  • Audited 5,865 sentence pairs in under a second on a consumer CPU; flagged 350 pairs (6.0%), all confirmed as true errors by manual review.
  • Fine-tuned M2M-100 (418M) on raw, filtered, and manually corrected variants of the data to measure the effect on English↔Hausa translation.
  • Co-authored a paper on the method and results (preprint forthcoming on arXiv).

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Backend Developer Intern at FlexiSAF Edusoft Limited

Highlights

  • Collaborated with the engineering team to implement enterprise-grade backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
  • Ensured adherence to modular architectural standards and professional development workflows.
  • Developed high-performance server-side logic, optimizing database interactions for scalable software solutions.
  • Focused on code quality and system reliability in a fast-paced production environment.

Projects

MAFAND-MT Edge Auditor :

– present

A deterministic, lightweight heuristic pipeline for auditing and sanitizing parallel corpora in low-resource African language translation, built for the Hausa subset of MAFAND-MT.

Highlights

  • Three rule-based gates (language and script integrity with Hausa-specific overrides, length-ratio validation, and numeric/hashtag alignment) with no neural components or external APIs.
  • Runs on consumer hardware and logs every pair's audit status to a SQLite ledger.

Fees & Receipts API :

– present

Developed a high-integrity Student Finance API using Spring Boot 3 and PostgreSQL, engineered with idempotent processing to ensure transactional reliability and automated PDF receipt generation for streamlined financial reporting.

Highlights

  • Engineered a scalable Spring Boot architecture utilizing a layered pattern of Controllers, Services, and Repositories to ensure a clean separation of concerns and long-term maintainability.
  • Designed an idempotent payment processing logic using unique transaction keys and checksums to eliminate duplicate charges and guarantee financial data integrity.
  • Developed an automated document engine using Thymeleaf and OpenHTMLtoPDF to dynamically generate high-fidelity, server-side PDF receipts directly from database records.
  • Implemented version-controlled database migrations using Flyway to ensure seamless schema evolution and consistency between development and production environments.

FlintDB :

– present

Designed and engineered a custom flat-file NoSQL engine to master core backend principles. Focused on implementing data atomicity (ACID), TDE encryption, and custom caching to build a robust, reliable system from the ground up.

Highlights

  • Engineered a high-performance, file-based storage system.
  • Implemented key database principles including ATOMIC transactions and a custom caching system.
  • Developed a custom, transparent data encryption layer.

BoidCMS :

– present

Developed a full-featured, extensible CMS platform. Key contributions include engineering a CRUD REST API plugin and a dependency-resolving module distribution system, demonstrating advanced skills in API architecture and systems governance.

Highlights

  • Engineered a custom CRUD REST API plugin covering site configuration and content.
  • Developed a sophisticated dependency-resolving distribution system that retrieves packages via cURL and parses complex JSON metadata for package installation.
  • Designed a submission process requiring PRs and code review for all community packages, demonstrating mastery of version control workflows and code governance.
  • Built a web-based CRON task scheduler plugin and integrated security features like CSRF protection and clean URLs.

Export Assist :

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Built a WordPress plugin that solves complex content portability by developing a robust data transformation engine to translate WordPress XML into a Blogger-compatible format. Showcases strong competency in external platform integration and data schema translation.

Highlights

  • Developed a robust system to parse and transform the complex XML/WXR format of WordPress into the required Blogger XML structure.
  • Solved a critical user need by successfully translating data across two distinct platform ecosystems (WordPress and Blogger).
  • Built the plugin using WordPress's internal hooks and APIs, showcasing proficiency in working with large, established external codebases.

Certificates

Intermediate Python from DataCamp

Intermediate SQL from DataCamp

Intermediate Java from DataCamp

Volunteer

– present

Campus Ambassador at Nigeria Data Protection Commission

Highlights

    – present

    Campus Lead at Cowrywise

    Promoting financial literacy and savings culture within the student community through peer engagement and campus outreach initiatives.

    Highlights

      Skills

      Programming Languages
      Level: Intermediate
      Keywords:
      • Java
      • Python
      • PHP
      Frameworks & Libraries
      Level: Junior
      Keywords:
      • Spring Boot
      • FastAPI
      • WordPress
      Databases & APIs
      Level: Junior
      Keywords:
      • PostgreSQL
      • SQL
      • RESTful APIs
      • Flat-file
      • JSON
      DevOps & Tools
      Level: Intermediate
      Keywords:
      • Git
      • GitHub
      • Docker
      • Bash
      Web Technologies
      Level: Intermediate
      Keywords:
      • HTML5
      • CSS3
      • JavaScript (ES6+)

      Languages

      English
      Fluency: Professional working proficiency
      Hausa
      Fluency: Native speaker

      Interests

      Reading
      Keywords:
      • The Life Changer
      • Magana Jari Ce

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