Designer, builder, endlessly curious. Tuscaloosa, AL

Faizan
Khan.

I design interfaces, build software, and help people make things.

Computer science at Alabama.
Previously Paris. Always making something.

Faizan helping a workshop participant with her laptop.
Best understood in the middle of doing.with people, for people
Design ↔ Engineering ↔ ResearchScroll to discover
01 / Selected workThe full collection

Ideas, made real.

Latest project / 2026

Yapply

Your story.
Your next chapter.

A career assistant that finds roles, prepares applications from verified facts, and keeps the search moving.

Meet Yapply Open source · Claude Code + Codex
Y / A little less application fatigue01
03 / Tailor
A résumé generated by Yapply using its fictional demo profile.

A relevant application, grounded in your profile.

Useful tools. Real experiments. A few good weekends.More things I’ve made
02 / Built with peopleHackBama · Co-founder & VP

Good things happen
when we build together.

I started HackBama with my co-founder and a few people who wanted to make things. I wanted a place where students could learn by building together.

I pitched the idea to the university, brought people into the room, and raised the support to grow it. Now I lead the partnerships, outreach, and teaching program that keep it moving.

The story behind it
HackBama / Field notes01—04 · Click to open
150+active members
15officers, one community
$8kraised to make it happen

Recorded September 2026.
Still growing.

03 / For the fun of it

Pull a thread.
See what happens.

A little space to play.
Drag to turn it. Tap to send a ripple.

One thread, tangled into something new.

Drag to turn · Tap to ripple · Arrow keys work, too
04 / Beyond the screenResearch & side quests

Other threads
I’m pulling on.

An abstract cobalt ribbon for the Singaura Project.
01 / In progressIllustrative preview
Software lead · ongoing

Singaura Project

An interface project for singing practice.

A conceptual genomic ribbon with a highlighted cluster.
02 / In progressIllustrative preview
Barton Lab · computational biology

FaRLiP

A reproducible pipeline finding far-red photosynthesis gene clusters in microbial genomes.

An illustrative vehicle display. My contribution was Spotify Connect.
03 / CompletedIllustrative preview
Spotify Connect · completed contribution

EcoCAR

I built Spotify Connect for the team’s infotainment system. Someone had to sort the music.

A conceptual stack of material slices forming a volume.
04 / In progressIllustrative preview
Materials research · since September 2026

Thompson Lab

Building an interface to make the lab’s image-reconstruction models accessible to researchers.

Faizan demonstrating a project outdoors at a campus table.
05 / The person behind the projects

Many interests.
One through-line.

I started with design, running a small studio from Paris. These days, that same curiosity takes me through software, research, and rooms full of people making things.

Pakistan, France, and the US. Six languages. A soft spot for good coffee and a problem I haven’t figured out yet.

A little more about me
Notes along the wayAll writing
September 18, 2026

Starting to write here