Hello / I'm Jana

I build systems.I draw worlds.

Computer Science graduate working across data, AI and software, and an artist whenever there's a pencil nearby. Two very different kinds of blank page, same stubbornness about filling them.

Based in
Beirut, Lebanon
Education
AUB Computer Science
Focus
Data / AI
Also
Artist
  • Python
  • PySpark
  • Databricks
  • React
  • AI
  • SQL
01Experience

Where I've worked

Enterprise data and AI engineering: pipelines that have to run tomorrow morning whether or not anyone is watching.

  1. Strategy& (PwC Network)

    Intern

    May 2026 – PresentBeirut, LebanonCurrent

    Contributing to enterprise-scale data and AI engineering work, including production ETL systems and agentic workflows.

    • Contributed to the implementation of 20+ production ETL pipelines using Databricks, PySpark and Python.
    • Worked with large-scale structured and unstructured datasets.
    • Supported scalable and maintainable ETL architecture.
    • Assisted with Spark workload optimisation using distributed and parallel processing.
    • Contributed to agentic workflows for enterprise AI automation.
    • Databricks
    • PySpark
    • Python
    • Spark
    • ETL
    • Agentic AI
Volunteering

Ahla Fawda · Beirut, Lebanon

Supported refugee relief work: food packing, cleaning, cooking and meal preparation.

March 2026 – April 2026
02Education & Recognition

What I studied

Four years of computer science at AUB, one very good award, and a workshop that turned into a mentorship.

2023 – 2026Graduated with Distinction

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

American University of Beirut

Beirut, Lebanon

3.78CGPA
/ 4.00
Relevant coursework
  • Data Structures & Algorithms
  • Theory of Computation
  • Discrete Mathematics
  • Software Engineering
  • Web Development
Award

Ghazi and Maya Nourallah Endowed Innovation Award

American University of Beirut · $1,000

  • Awarded for developing an innovative solution addressing a real-world local challenge.
  • Recognised as a top-performing project in the departmental innovation competition.
  • Merit-based award judged on innovation, impact and presentation.
Program

Women in Engineering: Amazon Machine Learning Workshop & Mentorship

  • Participated in a three-day machine learning workshop led by Amazon engineers, and advanced to the mentorship phase.
  • Contributed to the frontend design of a React Native educational app prototype.
03Selected Work

Things I've built

Coursework, competition projects and production systems: the ones where the problem was interesting enough to keep going after the deadline.

01Accessibility / Web platform

AccessEd

PDF Accessibility Platform

A web platform where users upload PDFs and have their documents analysed against WCAG accessibility requirements: surfacing what fails, why it matters, and how to fix it.

  • Accessibility validation against WCAG criteria
  • Automated issue detection across document structure
  • Readable reporting for non-technical users
  • Remediation guidance per issue
  • Built collaboratively across frontend and backend
  • Web Platform
  • WCAG
  • PDF Processing
  • Frontend
  • Backend

Links coming soon

02Data science / Machine learning

Journalist Risk Pattern Analysis

Press freedom & safety indicators

Data analysis and machine learning over journalist incident datasets, looking for the patterns that sit underneath journalist safety and press-freedom indicators.

  • Data collection from incident datasets
  • Cleaning and preprocessing of messy real-world records
  • Exploratory analysis of risk factors
  • Clustering to surface incident groupings
  • Machine learning models over the resulting features
  • Python
  • Pandas
  • Clustering
  • Machine Learning
  • EDA

Links coming soon

03Product / Frontend

AUBConnect

University Course & Professor Review Platform

A platform for AUB students to rate and explore courses and professors: the information that usually travels by word of mouth, collected in one place.

  • Course and professor discovery
  • Student-submitted ratings and reviews
  • Responsive interface built with React and Tailwind
  • React
  • JavaScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • HTML
  • CSS

Links coming soon

04Cloud / MLOps

Cloud Computing & CI/CD on AWS

Automated end-to-end ML workflow

An automated machine learning workflow on AWS covering data processing, training, evaluation, deployment and inference, with the whole path wired through CI/CD instead of run by hand.

  • Orchestration with AWS Step Functions
  • Build and release through CodePipeline and CodeBuild
  • Container images published to ECR
  • Infrastructure defined in Terraform
  • Deployment and inference automated end to end
  • AWS
  • Step Functions
  • CodePipeline
  • CodeBuild
  • ECR
  • Terraform
  • CI/CD

Links coming soon

05Machine learning / Medical imaging

MRI Brain Tumor Classification

Image classification pipeline

A machine learning pipeline that classifies brain MRI scans into tumor-related categories, from raw image preprocessing through to model evaluation.

  • Image preprocessing and normalisation
  • Model training over labelled MRI scans
  • Evaluation across tumor categories
  • Python
  • Machine Learning
  • Image Preprocessing
  • Model Evaluation

Links coming soon

04Art

Sketchbook & selected art

A collection of drawings, studies and things that stayed in my head long enough to end up on paper.

View all art

The frames above are placeholders. Real work goes in public/art/ and src/data/artwork.js.

05About

A little context

I'm a computer science graduate from AUB interested in building systems that make complex things simpler. Most of my professional work lives somewhere between data engineering, software and AI.

Outside a terminal, I draw. A lot.

Art and engineering look unrelated from far away, but both usually start the same way for me: staring at an empty space and trying to figure out what belongs there.

  • ArabicNative
  • EnglishFluent
  • RussianSpoken

The one that came first.

My primary creative outlet: sketching, illustration and the long tail of half-finished pages that never leave the sketchbook. Most of what I make starts as a pencil line.

Toolkit

Programming

  • Python
  • Java
  • C
  • C++
  • SQL
  • R
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • SML

Data Engineering

  • Databricks
  • Apache Spark
  • PySpark
  • ETL Pipeline Development
  • Data Transformation
  • Distributed Computing
  • Parallel Processing

AI / Data Science

  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • Matplotlib
  • Agentic AI Workflows

Software Engineering

  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Jira
  • Docker
  • Agile
  • Software Engineering
  • Software Construction

Systems / Databases

  • MySQL
  • Database Systems
  • Operating Systems
  • Computer Organization

Core CS

  • Data Structures & Algorithms
  • Theory of Computation
  • Discrete Mathematics
  • Probability
  • Linear Algebra
06Contact

Let's make something

Open to work in data, AI and software, and always happy to talk about drawing.

Email

Based in Beirut, Lebanon · usually replies within a day or two.

LinkedIn

More links to come. GitHub and portfolio URLs land here once they exist.