Tariq Khalif

B.Sc. Computing Science, SFU Co-op Program

• Coursework: Intro to Computing Science (CMPT 120), Discrete Math (MACM 101), Calculus I (MATH 150), CMPT 105W.

• One of 30 students chosen from 200+ applicants for an accelerated STEM cohort; finished Grade 10 Math, Science and Grade 11 CS by Grade 9.

University of Alberta, Augustana Campus

Pitched ThreadCycle, a clothing recycling service with home pickup and a drop-off map, in the design and entrepreneurship challenge.

• Designed and shipped a math game covering the full BC Grade 1 curriculum: 12 chapters, 70 islands and 30 skills.
• A rules engine picks every question and AI only writes the wording, so the math always matches the curriculum.
• Built accounts, cloud save, friends, a take-turns co-op mode with 60 voiced lines, and an Android app via Capacitor. Live at play.plusky.ca.
• Added rate limits, personal-data scrubbing and a private team dashboard; preparing a classroom pilot pitch for BC elementary schools.

• Got 38 pull requests merged into AnyPS5, an open-source tool that runs PS5 executables natively on Linux and Windows.
• Fixed the C++ relinker dropping imports reached through indexed pointer tables (#6605), with a regression test.
• Fixed false CI failures in its Python convention and progress checkers caused by braces and apostrophes in comments.

• Owned computer vision on a team of three: a phone photo of damage plus one voice line becomes a claim-ready report.
• Ran segmentation on-device with WebGPU, cutting image embedding from 10.4 s to 0.7 s (15x faster) with matching masks.
• Measured damage to real size using a coin as a scale reference and traced outlines onto the report; 31 commits, 7.8k lines.

• Built a voice shopping assistant in 24 hours with a team of four: each budget is a Solana wallet with on-chain spending limits.
• Shipped a deployed web app and Android build at solpouch.tech within the hackathon weekend.

• Hired to run the firm's digital side (20 hours a week): office tech and network, website, client communications and marketing.

• Built custom Minecraft server systems in Skript and Discord bots for 30+ paying clients, with 17 written reviews.
• Scoped, priced and delivered each commission to the client's spec; sell ready-made scripts on BuiltByBit.
• Built Find a Gem, a Roblox game, solo with Claude Code, from idea to playable test builds.

• Wrote all of the gameplay code, 57 Skript files, and grew the server to 90 players online at once.
• Built core systems including a 7-tier crate system with in-world animated crates.
• Run the server, its web store and its player community on Discord.

Computing Science Student Society, SFU

• Represent first-year computing science students and do company outreach for the Tech Fair by email and LinkedIn.
• Made Instagram and TikTok reels to drive FallHacks sign-ups and ran the hackathon's social media on event day.

Led groups of elementary students through hands-on experiments in Science World's after-school program at Captain Cook Elementary.

Tutor at Captain Cook Elementary (2025 to 2026), Programming Club (2022 to 2025), event coordinator at the Graham Bruce Elementary barbecue (2025 to now), and volunteer for the A Run / Walk 4 Gaza fundraiser and the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.