Murtaza Bootwala

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1. PRJ-001hardware

   Formula SAE Carbon Chassis

   Aero & Chassis Team · Cal Poly Racing · Sep 2025 – Present

   Manufacturing Formula SAE vehicle components on Cal Poly Racing's aero and chassis team — carbon layups, vacuum bagging, and assembly of the carbon chassis tub.

   • Contributed to a 10–15% reduction in composite fabrication time through improved material handling
   • Carbon layups, vacuum bagging, material prep, and post-processing with <2% rework rate
   • Helped prep and assemble the carbon chassis tub

   Built with

   • Carbon Fiber
   • Composite Layup
   • Vacuum Bagging

   Read case study →: Formula SAE Carbon Chassis
2. PRJ-002hardware

   FRC Robot Fabrication

   Fabrication Lead · FRC Team 2976, Spartabots · Aug 2023 – Jun 2024

   ★ Fabrication Lead — team of 10

   Led the fabrication team for FRC Team 2976 Spartabots, taking custom competition robot parts from CAD models to CNC-machined components.

   • Guided a team of 10 through fabrication tasks built to strict specifications
   • Designed CAD models and translated them into machine-operable instructions
   • Operated CNC machinery to turn raw material into precise components

   Built with

   • CAD Modeling
   • Onshape
   • CNC Operation
   • Robotics

   Read case study →: FRC Robot Fabrication
3. PRJ-003software

   Sakkas Poster

   Sakkas Store

   ★ Live — posting to the store's Facebook and Instagram

   Full-stack app that fully automates social media posting for Sakkas Store, a fashion brand — from a product URL to a carousel post on Facebook and Instagram.

   • Turns a Shopify product URL into a Facebook and Instagram carousel post, published now or scheduled
   • Generates on-brand captions with Claude in a fixed description, product link, hashtags format
   • Rebuilt scheduling on Supabase pg_cron after GitHub Actions cron proved unreliable in production

   Built with

   • Next.js
   • Supabase
   • Postgres
   • pg_cron
   • Shopify Admin API
   • Meta Graph API
   • Claude API
   • Telegram Bot API
   • Vercel

   Read case study →: Sakkas Poster
4. PRJ-004software

   sakkas-inven-app

   Sakkas Store

   QR-code warehouse inventory system for Sakkas Store, built to replace a manual process where workers searched aisles using handwritten labels and pen-marked quantities.

   • Each box's QR code points to a database ID, so a scan shows live contents, location, and quantity
   • Picking an item decrements its quantity through an API route; at zero it's removed from the box
   • Camera scanning, bulk A4 label printing, a searchable catalog, and per-box activity history

   Built with

   • Next.js
   • Postgres
   • Neon
   • html5-qrcode
   • qrcode
   • Vercel

   Read case study →: sakkas-inven-app
5. PRJ-005software

   MeetingTax

   ★ Built for H0: Hack the Zero Stack (Amazon & Vercel)

   Full-stack B2B SaaS app that calculates the real-time dollar cost of meetings based on attendee salaries.

   • AWS DynamoDB for live data
   • AI-generated cost insights with Claude Haiku
   • Built and deployed on Vercel

   Built with

   • Next.js
   • AWS DynamoDB
   • Claude API
   • Vercel

   Source on GitHub ↗ for MeetingTax (opens in a new tab)Devpost ↗ page for MeetingTax (opens in a new tab)
6. PRJ-006software

   AI Code Reviewer

   AI-powered code review tool built with Next.js and Claude Sonnet. Detects bugs, security vulnerabilities, and performance issues with severity ratings.

   Built with

   • Next.js
   • TypeScript
   • Claude API
   • Tailwind CSS

   Source on GitHub ↗ for AI Code Reviewer (opens in a new tab)
7. PRJ-007software

   FoodSpect App

   ★ 2nd place — WAForge Hackathon

   Mobile app built with Flutter that helps people with food allergies make safe dietary choices. Features a UPC barcode scanner and allergy profile matching.

   Built with

   • Flutter
   • Dart
   • Open Food Facts API

   Source on GitHub ↗ for FoodSpect App (opens in a new tab)Devpost ↗ page for FoodSpect App (opens in a new tab)
8. PRJ-008software

   LLM Evaluation Framework

   Local framework for evaluating and comparing LLMs using semantic similarity scoring, LLM-as-judge, and hallucination detection. Supports multi-model comparison with a live Streamlit dashboard.

   Built with

   • Python
   • Ollama
   • Sentence Transformers
   • Streamlit
   • scikit-learn

   Source on GitHub ↗ for LLM Evaluation Framework (opens in a new tab)
9. PRJ-009software

   Dev Portfolio OS

   This portfolio! A desktop-OS experience with a custom window manager, taskbar, and a dozen apps.

   Built with

   • Next.js
   • TypeScript
   • Tailwind CSS

   Source on GitHub ↗ for Dev Portfolio OS (opens in a new tab)