Saber Garibi
AI systems software engineer
Chicago, Illinois
Summary
I build AI systems where permissions, evidence, and failure behavior matter, from governed pull request review and .NET services to an ESP32 camera that sends checked images to an iPhone.
Experience
AI Software Developer
August 2024 to present
CAI
Built group based access control across UserProfiles, replaced a stateful Model Context Protocol design with disposable clients, and fixed file propagation between project and chat workspaces.
Full Stack Java Developer
September 2022 to July 2024
CAI
Served as the sole developer with a project manager on a City of Chicago API integration that transformed records into the required database schema and closed a missing path for government users.
Independent Software Consultant
2023 to present
Appliance service client
Built performance focused Astro sites on Cloudflare with accessible contact flows, bot protection, consent controlled Google Places behavior, and automated browser checks.
Data Analyst Intern
June 2024 to August 2024
Encore Global
Queried purchase records from thousands of customers, moved the results into Python for segmentation, and presented an Apriori recommendation proof of concept and dashboard to leadership.
Data Analyst Intern
June 2022 to August 2022
CAI
Analyzed website behavior in Google Analytics, prepared reports and presentations, and compared analysis tools by capability, limitation, and use case.
Work Study IT Associate
September 2021 to June 2023
Wilbur Wright College
Diagnosed computer laboratory failures and prepared more than 100 machines through a repeatable system imaging workflow.
Semiconductor Fabrication Trainee
May 2025 to June 2025
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Carried a wafer through the complete four week fabrication process with a team while following cleanroom safety, process sequencing, and quality checks.
Selected work
Scroll Code
2026
A mobile code reader that turns a public GitHub repository into a commit pinned feed without executing repository code.
Sole engineer
iCan Eye
2026
An accessible camera system that moves an image from an ESP32 device to an iPhone, selects an available vision path, and speaks a scene description.
Application and iCan Eye subsystem engineer
A tested prototype that freezes pull request evidence at one commit, separates private analysis from public research, and returns structured findings for a person to judge.
Workflow designer and implementer
A merged upstream contribution that added a protocol aware libFuzzer path for the MQTT PUBLISH decoder and prepared a separate OSS Fuzz integration request.
Open source security contributor
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer and Cybersecurity Engineering
2026
Illinois Institute of Technology
Associate of Science in Engineering
2023
City Colleges of Chicago
Engineering disciplines
Developer tools · Secure ingestion · Mobile web · Static analysis · Embedded systems · Mobile engineering · Computer vision · Accessibility · AI engineering · Developer tooling · Code review · Governance · Cybersecurity · C · Protocol fuzzing · Open source