Rohan Aslam

Work


Projects and experiments across product strategy, AI tools, data analysis, and software development.

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Line 3 · AI Tools Aug 2026 in-progress

Source-Grounded Research Assistant

A retrieval assistant whose most interesting behaviour is refusing to answer when its sources do not cover the question.

PythonRAGVector searchDockerGemini
Line 3 · AI Tools Aug 2026 experiment

Job Search Automation Pipeline

18 ranked roles out of a feed that would have taken hours to read by hand.

ApifyLinkedIn scrapingClaude
Line 3 · AI Tools Aug 2026 in-progress

Second Brain: Agent-Maintained Wiki

Two folders and one rule: I drop things in, the agent files, cross-references and synthesizes, and neither of us touches the other's side.

Claude CodeObsidianMarkdown
Line 1 · Corporate Aug 2026 shipped

Digital Transformation at Sun Life

Four months finding the manual work worth automating, then automating it. Turned into a full time offer.

Copilot StudioGitHub CopilotPower BIPower Automate
Line 3 · AI Tools Jul 2026 shipped

Friday Sermon Bot

Scraped, narrated and posted to Discord every Friday at noon, for zero dollars a month.

PythonBeautifulSoupEdge Neural TTSDiscord webhookslaunchd
Line 2 · Business Ventures Jul 2026 in-progress

SmartSyllabus

Five syllabi, five formats, one semester. We built the thing that reads them and plans it for you.

FlaskReactGemini
Line 4 · Data Jul 2026 experiment

Kronos Forecasting Research

Reading a financial foundation model closely enough to find out the tokenizer is the whole trick.

PythonTransformersKronos
Line 3 · AI Tools Jun 2026 in-progress

Personal AI Operating System

A Telegram message in, an organized Notion page out, and no filing decisions in between.

n8nTelegram APINotion APIClaude APIPikaPods
Line 4 · Data May 2026 in-progress

Job Portal

Five LLM providers, one local folder, and a ranked answer to which of my resumes actually fits which job.

Next.js 16TypeScriptApifyClaudeGemini
Line 2 · Business Ventures May 2026 experiment

Presently

Gift buying treated as a matching problem, which is either a real product or a very elaborate way to avoid asking someone what they want.

ReactViteTailwindNetlify
Line 4 · Data Apr 2026 in-progress

Aurum: Personal Finance Dashboard

Four lifestyle scenarios against 2026 Canadian tax brackets, to find the number that actually lands in the account.

ReactTypeScriptZustandRechartsPapaParse
Line 2 · Business Ventures Jan 2026 shipped

SmartQueue

A real-time office hours queue management system researched, designed, and evaluated using HCI methodologies at U of T.

ReactTypeScriptFirebaseDBSCANSBERT
Line 1 · Corporate Dec 2025 shipped

Product at Dye & Durham

Four months on eCore inside a legal tech platform, learning what product looks like when the users are lawyers.

ProductDigital transformationRisk management
Line 2 · Business Ventures Nov 2025 experiment

Skoll

A recruiting and roster tool for coaches, built mostly to find out where an AI scout stops being useful.

ReactTypeScriptGeminiVite
Line 1 · Corporate Aug 2025 shipped

Design Research at the U of T Innovation Hub

A summer of talking to teachers across Ontario about problems I never would have guessed at from a desk.

User interviewsSynthesisHuman-centred design
Line 5 · Writing Jun 2025 shipped

International Student Experience Research

Interview journey maps and core insights on the international student experience at U of T, published as a site people could click through instead of a PDF nobody opens.

Journey mappingQualitative researchHTML
Line 5 · Writing Nov 2024 shipped

Assistive Technology Research & Design

Accessibility research that turned into a working habit rather than a checklist.

Accessibility researchInclusive design
Line 4 · Data Sep 2024 shipped

Bikeshare Demand Model

A regression on rental counts that was worth building mostly because of how clearly it failed.

Rggplot2caToolsLinear regression
Line 1 · Corporate Aug 2024 shipped

Experience Design & Innovation at Ontario Teachers'

Sixteen straight months inside a pension fund, and the thing I took away was a standard.

Design researchFigmaService designComponent libraries
Line 4 · Data Jun 2024 shipped

Data Storytelling in R

Two projects, one skill: turning a messy dataset into an argument someone can act on.

Rggplot2plotly
Line 5 · Writing Jun 2024 shipped

Visual Design & Community Materials

Duty charts, QR flyers, wedding cards and 3D coursework. The reason this site is a signage system and not a colour palette.

IllustratorInDesignMayaCanva
Line 5 · Writing Apr 2024 shipped

Smart Commute: Transit UX Research

Interviewed student commuters and found the problem was never the route.

User researchFigmaPrototyping
Line 3 · AI Tools Dec 2023 shipped

Sermon Summary Pipeline (2023)

The first attempt: scrape, narrate, upload to Drive, email the link. Three years later I rebuilt it properly.

PythonBeautifulSouppyttsx3Google Drive APISMTP
Line 5 · Writing Aug 2023 experiment

FLINGBLADE

A Unity game taken all the way to a WebGL build, mostly to find out what shipping to the browser actually costs.

UnityC#WebGL
Line 5 · Writing Apr 2023 shipped

Juventus Rebrand Style Guide

A full brand system for a club that already got its own rebrand famously wrong, and the first time I wrote rules for other people to design against.

InDesignIllustratorBrand strategy
Line 5 · Writing Nov 2022 shipped

Editorial Layout & Poster

A magazine spread built around a single number, to learn that layout is an argument about what someone reads first.

InDesignTypographyEditorial design
Line 5 · Writing Jun 2022 shipped

Early Web Builds

A banking UI, two dice and guessing games, an expense tracker, a vacation tracker and a community portal in Svelte. The reps before the projects.

JavaScriptReactSvelteHTMLCSS