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  • first name : Tarik
  • last name : Hasic
  • year : Senior
  • major : Computer Science (6-3)
  • Address : Clinton, CT
  • phone : (860) 876-2610
  • Email : thasic@mit.edu
  • languages : English, Bosnian, Spanish, Arabic

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Experience & Education

  • Jun 2025 - Aug 2025
    Bloomberg
    Software Engineering Intern

    - Architected and implemented high-performance BatchConsumer API for C++ Kafka library.
    - Increased throughput 500x compared to previous offerings (9 msg/s to 5000+ msg/s).
    - Ensured system reliability and data consistency with strong ordering guarantees despite unpredictable data schemas and system failures.

  • Jan 2025 - Feb 2025
    New York Structural Biology Center
    Machine Learning Intern

    - Built and deployed a scalable FastAPI/TorchServe API to host Topaz (cryo-EM particle-picking) machine learning models.
    - Optimized model serving for real-time inference and training, integrated logging/monitoring, and resource management.

  • Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
    Tailbox
    Machine Learning Intern

    - Trained custom embedding and cross-encoder models that improved RAG pipeline results by 14% and reduced latency 50-fold compared to OpenAI models.
    - Fine-tuned Qwen2-1.5B SLM to convert HTML text to structured database entries to reduce reliance on private models and save $20/day per city; optimized inference for 19-fold speedup.
    - Wrote a robust Requests & Selenium scraper that collects tourist events found online; collected dataset of 18k+ query:activity pairs; used Google OCR to cut costs by 38.8% and cut latency by 27.5%.

  • Jan 2024 - Feb 2023
    Amazon
    Software Engineering Intern

    - Developed Express.js API to interface custom-trained LLM models and the AlexaEmulator.
    - Enabled simulating customer interactions with specific devices through serial numbers/customer IDs.
    - Extended project to use Microsoft AutoGen to allow for chain-of-thought reasoning and tool usage.

  • Dec 2022 - Dec 2023
    MIT Computer Science and AI Laboratory (CSAIL)
    Machine Learning Researcher

    - Co-authored a research paper; accepted by ACM UIST Conference.
    - Implemented the software as a plugin on Blender; backend runs CLIP on Django framework.
    - Added 1000+ annotated 3D-model datapoints autonomously using Selenium.
    - Created website for model using React, Node.js, and Django; provided model-uploading, re-meshing, and stylization in-browser.

  • Jul 2023 - Sept 2023
    Relari Software Engineering Intern

    - Implemented REST API using Express.js to dynamically generate tailored company slides by interfacing a proprietary LLM (trained on users' documents) with a PostgreSQL database.
    - Engineered document processing pipeline, enabling LLM to extract, categorize, and synthesize key financial data from diverse document formats.

  • Jun 2021 - Aug 2023
    Bausch Advanced Technologies
    Software Engineering Intern

    - Utilized xTuple API and company database to display part availability and work/purchase order retrieval, dramatically reducing human labor time.
    - Implemented SolidWorks 3D viewer directly in-app; includes feature tree, missing parts lookup, and printing.

  • 2022 - Present
    Bachelor's Degree MIT

    Relevant Coursework:

    • Computer Science with Python
      Computational Thinking and Data Science
      Fundamentals of Programming
      Low Level Programming with C & Assembly
      Computation Structures
      Operating Systems Engineering
      Systems Design
      Distributed Systems
      Algorithms I
      Algorithms II
      Discrete Math
      Linear Algebra
      Probability
      Machine Learning

    Awards:

    • Albert G. Hill Award for Community Service
  • 2022
    High School Scholar Wesleyan University
  • 2022
    High SchoolMorgan School

    Valedictorian - 4.4/4.0 GPA