Jad Taljabini

Computer engineer · Independent developer

I build useful software for the Apple ecosystem and the real world.

Creator of Hostario and Water Alert. Based in Italy, studying at Politecnico di Milano.

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Two apps on the App Store · iOS, research, and systems

Portrait of Jad Taljabini

01 / Selected work

Products made for actual use.

Not concepts or course exercises. Software shipped, tested and used outside a portfolio page.

01iPhone · iPad

Product design & development

Hostario

A practical workspace for short-term rental hosts. It handles guest documents, official reporting, contracts, receipts and tourist-tax summaries from one native app.

Swift · SwiftUI · Vision · SOAP integrations App Store
02 Water AlertNative hydration tracking across iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. SwiftUI · HealthKit 03 Havannah UI FuzzerA coverage-guided engine that stress-tests a game interface against real invariants. Python · Testing research 04 inTouchBluetooth-based indoor occupancy tracking built for environmental health research. Swift · MIT collaboration

02 / About

The interesting part begins when an idea meets reality.

I’m Jad, a computer engineering student at Politecnico di Milano. I care about the part after an idea sounds good: making it survive real users, institutional constraints and imperfect data.

That has meant publishing native iOS apps, connecting software to Italian public-sector systems, building a coverage-guided GUI fuzzer and contributing to indoor-tracking research with MIT.

01

Useful first

A clear problem is more valuable than a fashionable stack.

02

Own the details

Interfaces, edge cases and documentation are all part of the product.

03

Ship, then learn

Real feedback beats another week of polishing assumptions.

03 / Background

Work and study, without the inflated résumé language.

Current

Computer Engineering

Politecnico di Milano

Software engineering, systems, data and a final project focused on automated GUI testing.

2024–2025

Student tutor

TOP Project · Università Bicocca

Supported middle-school students in mathematics and English through a Harvard–Bocconi certified programme.

2022–2023

App developer

inTouch · MIT collaboration

Built the native iOS tool used to capture Bluetooth beacon data for indoor-occupancy research.

04 / Contact

Have a concrete problem worth building for?

business@jadtaljabini.com