Munir Rani
Software engineer based in Kuala Lumpur
Interests
- Blockchain
- Artificial Intelligence
- Data Science
- AI Philosophy & Ethics
Education
Bachelor of Computer Science (Software Engineering)
September 2019 — September 2023
Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
CGPA: 3.78
Semester Exchange Student
February 2022 — June 2022
Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea
Foundation in Physical Sciences
June 2018 — April 2019
Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
CGPA: 4.0
Internships
Front-end Developer at Digi-X, Subang Jaya
July 2021 — January 2022
- Joined front-end development team to manage altHR’s front-end for Android/iOS and web platforms.
- Assisted in DevOps to automate repository workflows.
- Honed skills in React Native, Vue.js, and GitHub Actions.
Organizations
Vice President at Universiti Malaya Entrepreneurship Secretariat (UMES)
July 2022 — June 2023
- Co-founded the organization consisting of 30 students to grow a student entrepreneurship ecosystem in Universiti Malaya.
- Partnered with student entrepreneur brands such as EzGIG, UniLah, Afterkelas in organizing entrepreneurship related events.
- Organized initiatives such as UM Startup Community, a Discord server to connect entrepreneur-minded students around UM.
Competitions
2nd place out of 13 at UTHM Digital Entrepreneurship Mobile App Competition
October 2022
- Developed a prototype of a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) marketplace in mobile app, allowing users to mint, sell and buy them.
- Technologies used: React Native, Ethereum blockchain, WalletConnect library.
- Documented problems faced here
Projects
Blockchain-based Campus Election E-Voting Platform
- Final Year Project thesis of a university campus election platform based on blockchain.
- Technologies used: Polygon ZKEVM blockchain, Solidity, Node.js, React, Google Firebase.
WhatsApp ChatGPT Bot
- Programmed a chatbot that interfaces with ChatGPT, allowing the AI to participate in conversations among any selected WhatsApp chat members whenever invoked.
- Technologies used: whatsapp-web.js, GPT-3.5 model.
Notion Book Scraper Database
- Built a personal book read watchlist database for book recommendations. Book data such as title, author, price and popularity count are scrapped from Amazon and Goodreads.
- Technology used: Node.js, Notion API.
- Source code
Featured Talks
1. Blockchain 101 - YouTube
Became a guest in a podcast discussing about the technicalities of blockchain and cryptocurrency, as well as addressing common public inquiries about it.
2. Students in Web3 - 3six9 Twitter Spaces
In this Twtiter Spaces, perspective of Web3 as a student are shared in terms of learning resources and how to get involved in this emerging field.
Other Invited Talks
- Making Your Own Book Database – Innovation Wednesdays PEKOM, Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, October 2023
- ChatGPT Integration into WhatsApp – Innovation Wednesdays PEKOM, Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, June 2023
- Blockchain E-voting Systems: Are They Possible? – APU Blockchain Club November Meetup, Asia Pacific University, Kuala Lumpur, November 2022
- Notion Workshop – Harmoni UM, Virtual, October 2021
Languages, Frameworks and Tools
- React
- React Native
- Node.js
- HTML & CSS
- Unix Shell
- Tailwind CSS
- Python
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Haskell
- Git
- Solidity
- Web3.js
- Remix IDE
- Vue.js
- GitHub Actions
- Google Firebase
- MongoDB
- Docker
- C
- Java
- TensorFlow
- PyTorch
- Pandas
Courses Taken
- AWS Acadecmy Cloud Foundations
Hobbies
- Reading – Goodreads book reading list
- Photography – Unsplash account