Hussain Lokhandwala
I turn slow, fragile systems into fast, reliable ones — across cloud infrastructure, high-traffic web platforms, and applied machine learning.
status: open to work
Curious about how things work.
I've always been the person who wants to know why something works the way it does — whether that's a slow web page, a stuck server, or just how a system I use every day actually functions underneath. That curiosity is what pulled me toward Information Technology in the first place, and it's stuck with me ever since.
Outside of pure engineering, I spent three years with IISE-VIT, eventually leading the chapter as Chairperson — which taught me as much about people, communication, and coordination as any technical problem has.
I'm from Jamnagar, Gujarat, and a recent graduate of VIT Vellore's B.Tech in Information Technology. When I'm not deep in a problem, I'm usually still tinkering with something — a new tool, a script to automate some small annoyance, or just reading up on how things work under the hood.
What I build with
Cloud & Architecture
Web & Backend Performance
AI & Machine Learning
Core & Databases
Leadership & Communication
Where I've worked
Full-Stack WooCommerce & Optimization Engineer
- Rebuilt the caching layer for a 6,400+ SKU store with in-memory Unix-socket Redis, cutting database query latency from 1.53s to 0.13s — a 10x+ improvement.
- Replaced fragile WP-Cron with a deterministic system-level crontab, cleared the Action Scheduler backlog to zero, purged 57,500+ orphaned log rows, and eliminated recurring 503 outages via targeted PHP 8.2 exception patches.
- Designed a zero-disk local staging setup on LocalWP with custom Nginx reverse-proxy rewrites, streaming 18+ GB of live product media on demand instead of storing it locally.
- Audited and patched 30+ core plugins and theme dependencies, closing a critical LiteSpeed privilege-escalation exploit and resolving PHP 8.2 null-pointer exceptions.
- Rebuilt the store's UI/UX end to end: a responsive 3-band mobile header, standardized product-card baselines with CSS Grid/Flexbox, AJAX fuzzy search via FiboSearch, and automated brand-logo metadata extraction across 50+ archives.
Things I've built & published
AWS Cloud Architecture for Carbon Emission Calculation
publishedDesigned a real-time ETL and prediction pipeline across 12+ AWS services for carbon-emission tracking and automated alerting — outperforming traditional batch pipelines on latency and throughput.
AI-Driven Decision Layer for HIDS/IPS Automation
Mar 2026A real-time intrusion-prevention system: a custom Scapy packet sniffer feeds an optimized XGBoost classifier for live threat triage, wired into Wazuh SIEM to automatically block malicious traffic at the firewall.
Cancer Stage Classification with Graph Embeddings & XAI
Oct 2025Combined PCA and Node2Vec graph embeddings with XGBoost to predict cancer stage across multiple classes at 96% accuracy, then used SHAP to trace predictions back to individual gene-level features.
TBH-Transformer & Quantum-Hybrid Diabetes Prediction
Nov 2025Implemented a Temporally-Biased Hierarchical Transformer (0.840 AUROC) for diabetes risk prediction, then benchmarked a PennyLane/VQC quantum classifier against it — comparing compute cost and calibration against classical baselines.
Beyond the code
Chairperson, IISE-VIT
Led technical student events and delegated committee roles, overseeing smooth execution across departments.
Co-Secretary, IISE-VIT
Ran logistics, speaker coordination, and participant communications for a two-day Ideathon with 100+ attendees.
Core Member, IISE-VIT
Supported early-stage event planning and cross-team coordination as part of the founding committee.
Proof of work
Academic background
Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology
Higher Secondary Education
Let's build something.
Open to full-time engineering roles and freelance web/cloud projects. Reach out directly, or send a message and I'll get back to you.