Fabel
A story-driven coding game: 159 episodes across JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python campaigns, where the story branches on your decisions and characters respond to your coding patterns. Submitted code is graded in a server-side sandbox.
MS CS (Artificial Intelligence)Georgia Tech '27Open to SWE & AI/ML internships
Ibtehaz Utsay
I’m drawn to complex systems, human behavior, and the uncomfortable gap between how things are designed and how they’re actually used.
I’ve worked across large platforms and small teams, and taught coding to students from communities historically excluded from tech. It keeps me honest about what actually matters, and skeptical of conclusions that arrive too easily.
Off the keyboardSports, Star Wars, and the arguments both produce.
Projects
Chalk Labs
A sports forecasting system that turns market prices and stats from 20+ sources into outcome probabilities, with every model tested on held-out seasons before it goes live.
Kinetic Arena
Arena game in Unity where a rollerblading gladiator uses magnetic powers to pull, push, and ram metal enemies. I built the audio system, enemy targeting, and the playtest telemetry logger, and ran the playtest program.
JAMMY
Built and evaluated a real-time music recommendation system to study how algorithmic transparency shapes user perception.
More projects
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F1 Formula 1 race forecasts and analysis: pre-race win probabilities, championship simulations, and Elo ratings for 213 drivers back to 1950, built from Jolpica, OpenF1, FastF1, and FIA documents.Live Site
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Cooked Built a research tool that tracks federal politicians' money and votes, joining FEC filings, congressional votes, bills, and lobbying disclosures into one profile with 23 signals per politician.Live Site
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Instagram Profile Redesign Figma prototype that lets people rearrange their Instagram profile grid, with undo and reset so changes feel safe.View Prototype
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J2C: Java to C Compiler Implemented a source-to-source compiler translating a subset of Java into C, with an emphasis on parsing, abstract syntax trees, and low-level code generation.View on GitHub
Experience
Senior Coding Instructor @ Management & Training Corp (Contractor for U.S. Dept. of Labor)
Feb 2025 – Present | Los Angeles, CA- Build and maintain a React/Supabase coding platform with in-browser Python for 100+ learners at 3 Job Corps centers.
- Built an LLM coaching service that reads a student's code and attempt history and escalates its hints over four tiers.
- Wrote its 258 lessons and exercises and set up the usage analytics behind quarterly reporting to the DOL.
STEM Educator @ Los Angeles Unified School District
Sep 2023 – Jan 2025 | Los Angeles, CA- Founded a robotics lab, securing $8K in grants and delivering C++ and robotics curriculum aligned with NGSS for 60+ students.
Curriculum Developer @ edX Boot Camps (2U)
Feb 2023 – Aug 2023 | Remote- Wrote MERN full-stack modules on Open edX, used by 5 university bootcamps (2,000+ students).
- Built Git-based auto-graded assignments with CI test runners, cutting grading turnaround to same-day.
z/OS Mainframe Apprentice @ IBM
Jan 2023 – Apr 2023 | Remote- Worked with z/OS and JCL, scheduling batch jobs and troubleshooting mainframe issues.
Associate Technical Project Manager @ Internet Brands
Apr 2021 – Jan 2023 | Los Angeles, CA- Ran sprint planning and design reviews for analytics at WebMD, Avvo, and ApartmentRatings (80M+ monthly users).
- Defined event schemas and validation rules for 100M+ daily events from 15+ tracking sources.
- Diagnosed bot traffic inflating conversion counts; wrote SQL analyses to isolate real leads and an attribution playbook.
Software Engineer Intern @ GameStar+
Sep 2020 – Feb 2021 | Remote- Wrote JavaScript unit tests for Family Feud's companion app, catching gameplay regressions before the retail ship date.
Technical Skills
- Languages
- Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Java, C++, C#, SQL
- ML & Data
- PyTorch, scikit-learn, LightGBM, pandas, NumPy, ETL Pipelines, LLM APIs
- Web
- React, Next.js, Node.js, Hono, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, WordPress
- Cloud & DevOps
- AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda), Docker, GitHub Actions, Linux
- Tools
- Git, Jira, Tableau, Unity, Figma, Canvas LMS
Education
Master of Science in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Georgia Institute of Technology | Expected December 2027
Relevant Coursework: Machine Learning for Trading (ML4T), Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge-Based AI (KBAI), Robotics: AI Techniques, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Video Game Design (VGD), Game AI, Graduate Operating Systems
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
California State University, Northridge | May 2022
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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.