Zouhair El Koush — Engineering Portfolio

§ 00 · Field Notes

Who I am

"Where firmware meets cloud and where data becomes insight."

I'm Zouhair, a Computer & Communications Engineering student at AUB with a passion for building systems end-to-end. I thrive in the full stack: from programming ESP32 microcontrollers and reading raw UART sensor streams, to designing REST APIs and deploying serverless functions on Azure.

Outside engineering, I spent 6 years as a broadcast technician at GLFM — my high school's radio & TV station — eventually becoming lead technician, training students on live camera operation, editing (Premiere Pro, Audacity), and live-show equipment. I also won the 2023 Trophée NSI jury prize for a software project built from scratch.

Field-deployed · Not a toy

My projects are real systems — a telemetry dashboard actually used on a BAJA SAE race car, a print management platform actively processing student jobs at the AUB Makerspace, a geometry-aware estimator validated against 52 real prints (and counting).

Education

B.E. Computer & Communications Engineering

American University of Beirut · 2024 – Present

AUB Makerspace member (The Red Room)
Teaching Assistant — EECE 231 (Python lab, 2nd year students)
BAJA SAE electrical & control system lead

Focus Areas

Hardware → Cloud

ESP32 firmware, Python desktop GUIs, Azure serverless APIs, full-stack web — comfortable across the entire hardware-to-cloud continuum.

Also

Beyond the Code

Lead technician at GLFM school radio/TV for 3 years — trained crews on live cameras, Premiere Pro & Audacity
AI club member (3 years) · Trophée NSI 2023 jury prize winner

Interests

Embedded SystemsReal-time Data Cloud Architecture3D Printing BAJA SAE RacingREST APIs Signal ProcessingCAD / Fabrication Video ProductionLinux

§ 01 · Lab Notebook

Things I've built

Each project is a full systems story — hardware to cloud, prototype to production.

§ 01 · Vehicle Telemetry

BAJA DAQ

Real-Time Race Car Intelligence

A professional-grade data acquisition and telemetry system for the AUB BAJA SAE race car. Live GPS-mapped dashboard, drag-and-drop module editor, post-race playback with lap analysis. ESP32 firmware pushes sensor data at 20Hz over serial to a Python PyQt desktop client.

PythonPyQt5ESP32 C/C++GPS / NMEAUART / Serial

20Hz

Sample Rate

BETA v2

Version

ESP32

Hardware

BAJA DAQ · Live telemetry dashboard

§ 02 · Makerspace Management

The RedRoom PMS

Full-Stack 3D Print Management System

Complete print management system for the AUB Makerspace. Student job queues, filament inventory, user access tiers, and analytics. Azure Functions REST API backend, React frontend — processing real print requests daily across the engineering faculty.

Azure FunctionsREST APIPython Node.jsCosmosDB3PME API

500+

Jobs / Semester

Azure

Cloud Deploy

REST

API Layer

The RedRoom PMS · Makerspace dashboard

§ 03 · Computational Tool

3DPME

3D Print Material Estimator

Geometry-Aware Filament Estimation

Filament weight estimator that works without a slicer. Mesh geometry analysis — convexity, bounding-box fill, surface-to-volume ratio, height ratio — classifies STL/ZIP/GCode files. 3.14g mean error across 52 real prints. Deployed as an Azure Functions REST API.

PythontrimeshAzure Functions REST APINumPySciPy

Prediction Accuracy n = 52 prints

3DBenchy · sample print

drag to rotate

10.3g

Actual

10.68g

Predicted

+0.38g

Error · 3.7%

PLA
10% infill

Settings

3DPME · 3D Print Material Estimator · Azure Functions REST API

Who I am

Things I've built

BAJA DAQ

The RedRoom PMS

3DPME

Tools of the trade

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