Hi, I'm Istiyak Amin Santo...

I build AI systems, research sustainable energy solutions, and prototype products at the intersection of machine learning, operations research, and environmental sustainability. My current research focuses on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of biofuel from Waste Cooking Oil (WCO) in Malaysia, where I apply ML, uncertainty modeling, and optimization to drive measurable carbon savings.

I’m also expanding into Quantum Computing—exploring how variational algorithms, QAOA, VQE, Grover’s search, and quantum-inspired heuristics can accelerate routing, scheduling, and energy systems problems.

• Software Engineer at RoyalRecruiter
• Software Developer at KING APPS STUDIO
• Graduate Research Assistant at Mutimedia University (MMU)

You can talk to me about,

• Front-end development using HTML, CSS, SCSS, JavaScript, ReactJS, Jquery, Ant design, Bootstrap
• Backend development using PHP, Golang, Laravel,
• Database stuff using GraphQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL,
• Expert in end-to-end AI solutions (data → models → APIs → dashboards) with MLOps,
• DevOps & Cloud: Linux, Docker, CI/CD, AWS basics; reproducible experiments & tracking.
• Data & Backends: Python, Go, Node.js; REST APIs; ETL pipelines; SQL (MySQL/PostgreSQL); GraphQL.

You can still talk to me about things I am still learning

• Quantum Computing: Qiskit, PennyLane, hybrid training loops, circuit cost functions.
• Love to attend duscussion in Modern Physics
• Languages like Go, Rust, PHP, Python