Welcome!
Islam

Duke junior finding lazy automations. Love reading about cool infra stories and over-optimizing configs. Currently based in Durham, NC.

I grew up between Egypt and Saudi Arabia. I also enjoy playing Tetris and Monkeytype in my free time.

In high school, I worked full-time as a graphic designer for an esports team. Around the same time, I was playing osu! professionally and designed a few skins (500K+ downloads).

I initially came to Duke as a pre-med computational chemist, but kept gravitating toward the "computational" part until I started building.

Feel free to reach out at islam.moh.islamm@gmail.com!

Experience

Software Engineer

Present
Duke UniversityAug 2025 – Present

Building assay discovery platform for enzyme design using NLP and chemical similarity

Next.jsFastAPIPyTorch

Software Engineer

Present
Soff (YC S24)May 2025 – Present

Building sales automation and procurement tools for supply chain intelligence platform as employee #2

Next.jsNode.jsAWS

Software Engineer Intern

HelianDec 2024 – May 2025

Developed AI-powered document analysis tools for medical research workflows

Next.jsFastAPIAWS
Projects

Etchr – GitHub README Generator

Web application that uses Google's Gemini AI to automatically generate comprehensive GitHub README files by analyzing codebases, with a sliding window approach to handle large repositories.

  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Gemini
  • GitHub API
  • GCP

Job Track – CLI Job Tracker

CLI tool that automates the tracking of job applications by extracting information from Gmail emails using Google Gemini AI and updating a Google Sheet, eliminating manual data entry.

  • Python
  • Google Gmail API
  • Google Sheets API
  • Google Gemini
  • CLI
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Applets
Interview Solve Log

Centralize all my leetcode/neetcode prep into a repository with a simple interface

HyperX DuoCast RGB Override

RGB mic clashed with my setup, so I learned USB control to customize it. Fuck HyperX.

Instagram Non-Mutual Unfollower

Had twice as many following as followers on Instagram, so I made a bot to unfollow non-mutuals.

Technical Skills
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Infrastructure & Tools
Selected Publications

Sep 2025

Machine learning for predicting and optimizing the CO₂ uptake in porous organic polymers
Hamid Zentou, Ali Tayeb, Islam Tayeb, Mahmoud Abdelnaby
Python Carbon Capture Traditional ML

May 2025

Primal Dual Continual Learning for Robust Antibody Design
Full-text Pre-print
Islam Tayeb, Navid NaderiAlizadeh
PyTorch Protein Design Continual Learning

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