Case studies — Abid Ali

Web App· 2026· Entertainment / Data & AI

Movies Recommender

Hybrid movie recommender powered by Spark MLlib ALS, BigQuery, Supabase, and TMDB.

A cloud-based movie recommendation system built on MovieLens 32M ratings. The project includes a full GCP big-data pipeline, BigQuery analytics, Databricks Spark processing, Spark MLlib ALS model training, Looker Studio dashboarding, and a live Next.js portfolio app deployed on Vercel. The live app serves ALS-powered collaborative-filtering recommendations with TMDB as a cold-start fallback.

Deployment: Next.js app live on Vercel with Supabase backend
Movies loaded: 87,585
Cloud dashboard: Looker Studio with 5 visuals and filters

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Chrome Extension· 2025

LinkReach — LinkedIn outreach extension

A Chrome extension that turns LinkedIn into a CRM

Built for a B2B agency in Berlin. LinkReach overlays an outreach inbox on top of LinkedIn so SDRs can sequence, track, and reply without leaving the page.

Active users: 4 SDRs
Tools replaced: 2
Hours saved per rep: 6/week

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Web App· 2025

Custom donation payment system

Stripe + Squarespace, glued together properly

A non-profit needed recurring + one-off donations with country-specific receipts. We built a custom checkout layer on top of Squarespace using Stripe Elements and a tiny serverless backend.

Avg gift size: +18%
Project value: $1,112
Donation conversion: 1.9% → 4.4%

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Web App· 2025

Multi-step form for Squarespace

A 7-step intake form that converts

A medical clinic on Squarespace needed a HIPAA-aware multi-step intake form with conditional logic, file upload and a CRM hand-off. Native Squarespace forms don't do any of that.

Steps: 7
Project value: $1,400
Completion rate: 71%

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Web App· 2025

3D operation theatre simulator

A scrubbed-in surgical training environment

WebGL operation theatre with interactive instruments and step-based procedure walkthroughs. Used as a study aid for surgical residents.

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Web App· 2024

Image-to-Text scanner

OCR in the browser, no upload required

A privacy-first OCR scanner — the entire pipeline runs client-side using Tesseract.js compiled to WASM, so no document ever leaves the user's machine.

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Web App· 2024

GitHub repo generator

Spin up a templated repo from a form

A small tool that takes a project description and creates a fully-templated GitHub repo with README, license, CI and labels — useful for teaching workshops.

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