Why I built this
Sending a PDF to people building something this important felt wrong.
“So I built a working version of your AI Guide instead — the student profile panel, the safety pipeline, the credential graph. Not to show off. To show I understand what you're actually building.”
The navigational burden
Thousands of credential programs, financial aid vehicles, and career tools exist across Washington State — but from a first-gen student's perspective, they're invisible. The people who need guidance most carry the heaviest navigation burden. That's the problem you're solving.
I've lived this problem
I'm self-taught — no degree, no guidance system, no map. I had to figure out my own path by piecing together information from a dozen different places, most of it wrong. That experience is not abstract to me. Your AI Guide is the product I needed at 18.
Building in education right now
I'm currently engineering an education product in Qatar — in a system where students face the same navigational chaos your Washington students do. I bring a real-time perspective on this problem from outside the US, which no other applicant can offer. That's not a liability. That's range.
The AI Guide — working right now.
Grounded in real Washington State resources. Student profile builds live. Safety pipeline runs on every message.
The AI Guide reads its replies out loud. Try a scenario or ask anything.
AI Career Coach — WA State
Claude · RAG-grounded · FERPA compliant
Start a conversation
Pick a scenario above or type a question. The AI Guide will respond in text and speak to you — like a real career coach.
Enter to send · Shift+Enter new line · Guide reads replies aloud
Profile builds as you share context
WA State sources appear
after each AI response
Input scan
COPPA age check · PII detection
Intent classification
Crisis detection · Off-topic filter
RAG retrieval
Pulling WA State sources
Claude generation
Grounded response building
Output validation
FERPA compliance · Fact-grounding
Activates on every message
Claude API · ElevenLabs voice (Sarah) · WA State grounded · Built in days
GitLab Foundation Grant · Credential Transparency
The credential graph — visualized.
This is what the credential transparency layer could look like for students. The GitLab Foundation grant is building the data layer — here's what the experience layer might feel like. Click any node to see details.
Real WA State data · Grounded in WSAC, WorkSource, and community college catalogs · Click any node to explore
What I'd build
Day one through ninety.
The 2026 pilot deadline is real pressure. Here's exactly what I'd focus on to make it.
Listen, don't ship
Understand the AI Guide's real failure modes before writing a line of product code.
- Review real student session logs — where does the AI hedge, hallucinate, or lose the student?
- Map the current RAG architecture — what data sources are grounded, what's missing?
- Meet the Yakima and Port Angeles pilot contacts to understand student context first-hand
- No new features. Understanding only.
First real deliverables
Ship the pieces that unblock the 2026 pilot deadline and make advisors' lives easier.
- WhatsApp integration — meet students where they actually are (not a webapp)
- Advisor dashboard v1 — see student profiles, flag emotional risk signals, track session history
- Student document reader — accept and parse financial aid letters, transcripts, FAFSA confirmations
- Source citation hardening — reduce hallucinated resource links to near zero
The architecture that scales
Build the pieces that make this replicable beyond Washington State.
- Credential graph explorer — the experience layer for the GitLab Foundation data graph (you just saw the prototype above)
- State-agnostic knowledge base architecture — swap WA data for any state's resources by design
- Proactive nudges — FAFSA deadline reminders, application window alerts, enrollment confirmation prompts
- Voice mode polishing — make the ElevenLabs integration feel as warm as a real advisor, not a chatbot
Long-term vision
The architecture built for Washington can serve every education system worldwide.
The same navigational burden that first-gen students face in Yakima exists in Texas, in Brazil, in South Africa. State-agnostic architecture from day one means this isn't a Washington product — it's a template for every education system that has failed to connect learners to opportunity. The Gates Foundation already knows this. The architecture just needs to be built right.
The honest case
The objections — and what's actually true.
I know the gaps. I'm not going to dodge them. Here's the honest answer to each one.
“You're in Qatar. The role is US-only.”
Yes — I'm in Qatar, UTC+3. I work through HEVYF LLC Wyoming — so from CampusEvolve's side, you'd invoice a US company, no sponsorship filing, no benefits overhead, no immigration paperwork. It's a contractor engagement with a US LLC — honestly simpler than hiring a US full-time employee in some respects. UTC+3 means I cover the full US East Coast workday starting at 4am my time. Two years of US clients, same setup.
“You have 4 years. We want 6–10.”
Four years at founding engineer scope is a different kind of experience than 10 years of maintenance work. I was the sole engineer on an AI platform that scaled to 60,000+ active users — every architectural decision mine, zero-to-one, no team to catch my mistakes. That forces a level of systems thinking you don't get in any other way. The demo you're looking at was built in days. That's the argument.
“No formal CS degree.”
I stepped away from formal education before I knew this was my path — four years to find out felt like the wrong order. I taught myself by shipping. I'm pursuing a degree now, because now I know it's worth the investment. The demo is the degree. And for what it's worth — your job posting doesn't mention one.
In numbers
60,000+
active users on AI systems I built
4 yrs
founding engineer scope
$0
ramp-up needed on Claude / FastAPI / Next.js
Days
to build this entire demo
“I'm not the obvious hire. I'm the right one for this specific moment — fresh grant, 15-month deadline, and the senior full-stack role still open. You invoice HEVYF LLC. No sponsorship. No ramp-up. The demo you just used is what week one looks like.”
— Jasim Ameen
Want to ask me
anything?
No calendar. No PDF. A live voice conversation with Jasim — right now.
Talk with Jasim
Live voice · Real-time answers
Voice via ElevenLabs · Intelligence via Claude · Built for CampusEvolve