Niki Mohseny

An end-to-end, event-driven platform simulating a university's international student data pipeline, from streaming ingestion to an analytics dashboard.

• ▸Ingests events via Kafka into S3 object storage, orchestrated with Airflow DAGs and processed with PySpark into a PostgreSQL staging layer
• ▸dbt star schema warehouse for analytics on student enrollment, visa compliance and program performance
• ▸FastAPI + Chart.js dashboard surfacing pipeline metrics and analytics, containerized with Docker
• ▸CI with GitHub Actions; Kubernetes manifests and Terraform for deployment

Kinword helps learners use the languages they already know by surfacing the words they share with the language they're learning. Spanish azúcar, Arabic sukkar, Persian shekar and Russian sakhar all mean “sugar” and share one root.

• ▸AWS Lambda ingests Wiktionary etymology data into S3
• ▸PySpark transliterates words across Arabic, Persian, Cyrillic and Latin scripts and links them by shared origin
• ▸dbt on Athena models shared roots, loanwords and cognates
• ▸Designed to run on AWS Free Tier and pay-per-query services, with infrastructure in Terraform

A Java/Spring Boot student portal with enrollment logic, schedule-conflict detection and Spring Security authentication.

• ▸Enrollment logic with automatic schedule-conflict detection
• ▸Spring Security authentication, SQLite persistence via JDBC
• ▸15 JUnit 5 / Mockito tests running in GitHub Actions CI