About
Hi, I'm Ryan, and i'm against runtime errors.
Toronto, ON | ryan.shabaneh@mail.utoronto.ca
I'm a second-year Computer Science student at the University of Toronto.
I'm a big fan of Hope Sandoval and Kazuo Ishiguro.
Lately, I've been especially interested in understanding how transformers represent and develop internal features.
Favorite Albums
↓ The responsible stuff ↓
Work Experience
Software Engineering Intern · CI Financial, Toronto, ONJan 2026 — Apr 2026
- Cut quarterly reporting time by 90%, consolidating 250+ manually maintained reports into 60 config-driven templates using pandas and python-pptx
- Shipped an internal HR RAG assistant using Qwen3 + Ollama for 100+ employees, cutting policy lookup time by 85%
- Reduced HR assistant format failures from 28% to 5% by fine-tuning Qwen3 with LoRA for policy QA
Machine Learning Research Assistant · Dalhousie University, Halifax, NSOct 2023 — Jan 2024
- Built the property-comparison dashboard for REALM, an IEEE-published ML real-estate appraisal system, using Django and Chart.js
- Validated a Random Forest model at R² > 0.90 on a held-out test set by building its training and evaluation pipeline
Education
University of Toronto · Honours Bachelor of Science (HBSc), Computer ScienceExpected May 2029
- Relevant Coursework: Software Design, Data Structures and Analysis, Software Tools and Systems Programming, Linear Algebra II, Theory of Computation, Computer Organization, Probability
If anything here piques your curiosity, feel free to reach out on LinkedIn or by email. I'm always happy to talk about interesting problems, research, or ideas.