Hello, I'm
Faheem Saleem
Ex-Thales Engineer | First-Class BSc Computer Science | MSc AI @ Manchester
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Hello, I'm
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About me
I recently graduated with a First-Class BSc in Computer Science (82%), and this September I'm starting an MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Manchester. Along the way I spent a 12-month placement at Thales as an IVVQ Engineer.
With 5+ years in software development, I've shipped Android apps with 50K+ downloads — most notably Statics — alongside web and embedded projects. I love turning ideas into polished, real-world products across mobile, web and, increasingly, AI.
Thales experience
As a Systems Integration and Testing (SI&T) Engineer during my 12-month placement at Thales, a global leader in defence and security, I honed skills in ensuring software system reliability within complex engineering environments. I later transitioned to a 50% software development role, gaining diverse experience in both integration and software engineering.
"A genuine, obvious enthusiasm for working with computers and software is a real asset. Clearly someone who has built a reputation in a short time of being a reliable asset to the project."
- Line Manager
"You have been a valuable member of the team and you have truly contributed towards the delivery of critical systems to the customer."
- Matrix Manager
"I was really impressed with what you did with the app development and see that you could be (are) a really good software developer. I think that software development will be where your future in Thales belongs"
- Matrix Manager
"Friendly quick learner that quickly integrated and became one of the main points of contact for the SI&T team. He became well integrated into the company building a wide network amongst other interns, developers and senior developers, graduates and more; making him a good fit for the company."
- Apprentice
"Efforts you've made to improve on the tools and processes applied, and your enthusiasm to learn and apply more SW skills - this is a real strength and something I think you should continue to highlight and leverage in your career as you move forward."
- Functional Manager
"Faheem has fitted into the team and interfaced with other teams very well. This is due to his enthusiasm and willing to engage with not only his team but others he comes into contact with. I would be happy to work with Faheem in the future should the opportunity arise."
- A cool guy :)
Flagship project
Statics is a full companion app for Riot's FPS, VALORANT — what began as a simple stats checker has grown over 3+ years into a polished, Material 3 Expressive app, built solo on a clean MVVM architecture. It pulls live data straight from the Riot APIs to track your matches, rank, store and loadouts, and layers a whole social network, wishlist alerts and home-screen widgets on top — working just as well for console players as it does on PC.
Free · Android · grab the latest APK straight from GitHub Releases.
A ground-up redesign with dynamic colour, springy motion, predictive-back gestures and haptics — themed per-account from your equipped player card.
A built-in community: a global chat with message reactions, a "looking for game" board, public profiles and friend requests — all powered by Firebase.
See agents, ranks and party info the moment you load in, with full match history, rank history and an interactive round-replay minimap.
Browse and equip skins, sprays, cards, titles and buddies in a full-screen picker with collection-completion bars, plus saveable loadout presets and a randomiser.
Glanceable widgets for your daily store, friends' activity, current rank and win-rate — tap to jump straight into the app.
Check your daily store at a glance, wishlist the skins you want, and get a heads-up the moment one lands in your shop — or even shows up in your live match lobby.
Thousands of ability lineups, searchable by map and agent, with inline video playback so you can learn setups without leaving the app.
Whether you're on PC, Xbox or PlayStation, Statics works for everyone — with seamless multi-account switching, silent token re-auth and localisation across 10+ languages.
A look inside the app
Recent project
ROYA (Arabic: رؤية, meaning Vision) is a fully offline-capable Islamic companion app built with .NET MAUI. It brings a complete Quran reader, AI-powered semantic verse search, prayer times, a Qibla compass and OCR verse scanning together in one app that runs natively on Android, iOS, macOS and Windows from a single codebase. It started as a university project but has grown into something I genuinely use and keep building on.
Built with .NET MAUI · one codebase across Android, iOS, macOS and Windows.
The full Quran with three Arabic scripts, three English translations and eight reciters — downloaded once on first launch and read entirely offline.
Ask in plain English like "patience in hardship" and get the most relevant verses, ranked on-device with a MiniLM sentence-embedding model and cosine similarity.
A daily Salah schedule with a live countdown to the next prayer, cached by date so it keeps working long after the first fetch.
A real-time magnetometer compass that points towards Mecca, with live bearing, distance and alignment feedback as you turn.
Point the camera at a physical page or screenshot and it detects the verse reference and jumps straight to that ayah in the reader.
Bookmark any verse with a single tap, stored locally in SQLite with a timestamp and ready to jump back to in context.
Four themes including an OLED black default, with app-wide font sizing and switchable Arabic script, translation and reciter.
A one-time first-launch download builds the database and the on-device AI index — after that, the whole app runs without a connection.
A look inside the app
A selection of side projects across AI, hardware and the web.
Mostly played Minecraft and Need for Speed
Parrs Wood High School
9 GCSEs with English, Maths and Science
Xaverian College
Computer Science, Maths and Physics :')
Manchester Metropolitan University
First-Class BSc (Hons) Computer Science · 82%
Achieved 86%
Programming, Computer Architecture, Web Development, Mathematics, Databases
Achieved 80%
Networking, Data Structures and Algorithms, Operating Systems, Software Development,
Ethical Hacking
Worked at Thales as an IVVQ Engineer for my placement year!
Graduated with First-Class Honours (82%) 🎉
University of Manchester
Diving into AI & machine learning
Get in touch
Open to roles, collaborations or just a conversation. Email is the quickest way to reach me, but I'm around on these too.
faheemusmi@gmail.com