CSE 485: Computer Science Capstone Project I & CSE 486: Computer Science Capstone Project II — Capstone Poster
Jobque.ai Capstone Poster
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Over the course of two semesters I worked on a real industry capstone project called Jobque.ai as part of the Core AI Backend Team for Qualaces Inc. The team consisted of Anshul Kamble, Aryan Khanna, Shaashvat Mittal, Nicholas Hoekstra, and myself, and we were sponsored by Aakash Patel. Jobque.ai is an AI powered job search platform that automatically scans company career pages and delivers real time alerts for new and relevant job openings to students and new graduates who are actively looking for work.
My contributions across seven sprints spanned the entire backend of the platform. I independently designed and built the complete resume management system from scratch, which included four production ready API endpoints for uploading, downloading, deleting, and checking resumes. I also built the backend infrastructure that powers the Chrome extension, allowing users to track job postings directly from career pages and store that data in a DynamoDB table I designed myself. Beyond building new features, I grew the company URL database to 500 entries and fixed critical bugs like silent exception handling that was making the job search function fail silently.
Reflection
The biggest things I learned from this experience were technical skills in software engineering, sprint planning and execution strategies. I learned that just because something works does not mean it is built well, since a working solution with poor logging, no error handling, and no data lifecycle planning will eventually become a nightmare to maintain as the product scales up. I also learned that making architectural decisions independently and being able to defend them clearly to a sponsor and a team is an essential skill along with writing good code.
The capstone project with Qualaces felt different from other technical experience I had at ASU because for the first time I was not building something for a course or a grade. I was building something that real users were going to interact with and that pressure changed the way I approached every single decision I made. I connected deeply with what I had learned through EPICS during my earlier years. In EPICS I was introduced to the idea of working on real problems for stakeholders, but the capstone pushed that even further since I was now making independent architectural decisions, writing production quality code, and was being held accountable by a company sponsor rather than a professor. The jump in responsibility between the two experiences was significant and I felt ready for it because my EPICS experience had already taught me that engineering work is never just about the code but about the people and systems it serves.
The capstone also reinforced something I had started to believe during the ENT 360 course. I want to eventually build my own product rather than always working inside someone else's system. Working with a startup showed me both the exciting and the frustrating parts of an early stage product development process. I completed my experience and was more motivated than ever to one day be the person making the product decisions rather than just implementing them. I am genuinely proud of the fact that my most significant contribution, the resume management system, was something I designed and built entirely on my own from start to finish.
Jobque.ai platform improves the standard of living for its users in a practical way because instead of spending hours manually checking dozens of company career pages every day, now a job seeker using Jobque.ai gets real time email alerts the moment a relevant opening is posted. The saved time and reduced anxiety translates directly into a better daily life because a person who is not constantly stressed about missing job opportunities has more mental space to focus on other things that matter to them. Ultimately, Jobque.ai is fundamentally built to make the job search experience less painful for students and new graduates, and it directly connects to Joy of Living since finding a job is one of the most stressful and life changing transitions a young person goes through.