now · Yale Hacker House · San Francisco

Allah-u-AbhaRodrigues

Yale senior — B.S. in Computer Science + Statistics & Data Science. First person from Mozambique to attend Yale. This summer: building a startup at the Yale Hacker House, San Francisco.

the gallery is downstairs ↓featured in The Wall Street Journal ↗

engineer × artistMaputo → Porto → Lakeville → New Haven → San Franciscographite · acrylic · codein The Wall Street Journal, via the Yale Hacker House

The short version

The quick version: I'm from Maputo, Mozambique — the first person from Mozambique to attend Yale. Before New Haven there was Hotchkiss in Lakeville — FTC robotics, thirds tennis, and drawing more than I slept — plus a stretch in Porto. Now I'm a Yale senior doing a B.S. in Computer Science + Statistics & Data Science, and this summer I'm at the Yale Hacker House in San Francisco, the house The Wall Street Journal wrote about. Half of this page is pencil. The other half is code.

Allah-u-Abha in a black suit at night, arms crossed, on Yale's campus — new haven, after dark

Allah-u-Abha standing beside his graphite portraits at an exhibition — opening night — “i came back, but you weren’t there”

The art side · room I — Maputo

Before the code,
the pencil.

“In the raw vibrations of the African soil, I found the essence of my creativity.”

ten works · 2019 – 2021 · scroll to walk →

Capulana — pencil, 2020 — Nº 01Capulana2020 · Pencil · Maputo, Mozambique · 16.5 × 11.7 in

Equilibrium, In the long run — pencil, 2020 — Nº 02Equilibrium, In the long run2020 · Pencil · Maputo, Mozambique · 16.5 × 11.7 in

Reverse Feel — pencil, 2020 — Nº 03Reverse Feel2020 · Pencil · Maputo, Mozambique · 11.7 × 16.5 in

The bar — pencil, 2019 — Nº 04The bar2019 · Pencil · Maputo, Mozambique · 8.3 × 11.7 in

Oblique Angel — pencil, 2020 — Nº 05Oblique Angel2020 · Pencil · Maputo, Mozambique · 11.7 × 16.5 in

Soldier — pencil, 2019 — Nº 06Soldier2019 · Pencil · Maputo, Mozambique · 11.7 × 16.5 in

Afterlife — pencil, 2021 — Nº 07Afterlife2021 · Pencil · Maputo, Mozambique · 8.3 × 11.7 in

Mozambique Railways — pencil, 2020 — Nº 08Mozambique Railways2020 · Pencil · Maputo, Mozambique · 16.5 × 11.7 in

Soft Mornings — acrylic on canvas, 2019 — Nº 09Soft Mornings2019 · Acrylic on canvas · Maputo, Mozambique · 16.5 × 23.4 in

Childhood — pencil, 2021 — Nº 10Childhood2021 · Pencil · Maputo, Mozambique · 11.7 × 16.5 in

Room II — Lakeville, Connecticut

I came back, but
you weren’t there.

Drawn at The Hotchkiss School and shown at the Troutbeck Symposium — a graphite conversation between W.E.B. Du Bois and my friend Jamil about double consciousness, a century apart.

I came back, but you weren't there — Jamil — graphite & color, 2023 — Nº 12I came back, but you weren't there — Jamil2023 · Graphite & color · Lakeville, Connecticut

Memorial Horizon — graphite, 2023 — Nº 13Memorial Horizon2023 · Graphite · Lakeville, Connecticut

How one happens

Memorial Horizon, mid-flight. I keep the ugly middle stages — that’s where the drawing actually gets made.

Memorial Horizon in progress — early — sky and background still open — early — sky and background still open

Memorial Horizon in progress — middle — fence and machines blocked in — middle — fence and machines blocked in

Memorial Horizon in progress — the reference, shot through the fence — the reference, shot through the fence

The current medium
is code.

keep walking →

the current medium is codeml · full-stack · mapsb.s. computer science + statistics & data science, yale

The tech side

~/code

allahu@hacker-house: ~/code — bash

allahu@hacker-house:~/code$ ls projects/ --all

allahu@hacker-house:~/code$ cat experience/*.md

Software Engineer @ HapSTR ↗may – aug 2025 · los angeles · remote
- Scaled a photorealistic 3D real-estate app from ~200 to 1,000+ users — CesiumJS + Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles in Next.js/TypeScript, with Street View handoff and click-to-building fly-to.
- Sub-200ms property lookups from cached geospatial endpoints fusing Zillow CSVs, ATTOM API data, and Microsoft Building Footprints — EPSG:4326 mapping, Haversine search.
- Prototyped Interior Transparency with PyTorch + Hugging Face to infer floor layouts and render 3D interior previews — listing-detail clicks up 35%, time-to-first-insight down 40%.
- Releases went from 2 days to 45 minutes: Docker-first CI/CD (GitHub Actions → AWS ECS), 88% unit-test coverage, blue-green deploys.
next.jstypescriptcesiumjsgoogle-3d-tilespytorchdockeraws-ecsgithub-actions
Machine Learning Engineer @ Unlock Labsjun – aug 2025 · charlotte · remote
- Cut marketing spend 2% for a $32M DTC brand with a Streamlit-on-AWS analytics engine — Random Forest demand forecasts plus Monte Carlo scenario modeling.
- One dashboard for forecasts, scenario controls, and KPI tracking, with automated data refresh and audit logs.
- Channel-reallocation recommendations with confidence intervals, so leadership decided faster.
pythonscikit-learnrandom-forestmonte-carloawsstreamlitpandas
GRP Fellow @ United Nations Development Programme ↗jun 2026 — · the hague · remote
- Monitoring, evaluation & learning with the Governance, Rule of Law and Peacebuilding Hub — helping programs organize evidence and measure outcomes.
- Applying CS + statistics to impact-measurement tools and indicator frameworks across international, cross-functional teams.
pythonstatisticsdata-analysism&e
Software Developer @ Yale Computer Society — Yalies.io ↗2025 — · new haven
- Backend and search for 30,000+ students and alumni — paginated endpoints, request-level caching, and monitoring handling 3,000+ daily requests on Next.js/Node + Elasticsearch.
- Query filters, profile views, and contributor docs that cut new-dev ramp-up time.
next.jsnodeelasticsearchtypescript
SWE & ML Mentor @ Curious Cardinals2025 — · remote
- Mentored a cohort of four seniors to a full CRUD app in Java/Spring Boot — OOP design, testing, CI.
- Built an NBA fantasy predictor to ~0.95 AUC with a junior mentee — five Kaggle datasets, XGBoost tuning, a Streamlit app for lineup exploration.
javaspring-bootpythonxgbooststreamlitarduino

also: flanker on Yale rugby, mentoring kids through Curious Cardinals, accessibility work on Yale’s assistive-tech team, one semester mapping neurons at the Kuan Lab — and FTC robotics back at Hotchkiss.

Right now · summer 2026

Living at the Yale Hacker House, San Francisco — building all day, most nights.

Aerial view of the hacker house backyard, founders around a brunch table — sunday, from the roof

With friends in front of the Golden Gate Bridge on a foggy day — obligatory bridge photo

Fifteen Yale founders, one Nob Hill house, ten weeks. My project is still under wraps — ask me over coffee. The house is how I ended up in The Wall Street Journal.

As featured in — The Wall Street Journal

“Forget Wall Street. Elite Students Are Spending Their Summers on Startup Dreams.”

read the piece ↗

Rugby match in motion — carrying the ball past a yellow school bus — flanker things, Yale rugby

Standing beside my graphite portraits at the exhibition — opening night, 'i came back, but you weren't there'

Yale rugby team photo after beating Columbia — bluedogs 7 – 5 columbia

Night portrait in a suit on Yale's campus — formal, apparently