Alina Khiteva
Software engineering student & web developer · Novi Sad
About
First-year Software Engineering and Information Technologies student at the Faculty of Technical Sciences (FTN), University of Novi Sad, building web applications with Python and Django. I enjoy hackathons, team projects, and turning ideas into working software. Currently looking for internship or collaboration opportunities.
Projects
HomeSight
↗AI-powered livability scoring for Belgrade. An interactive map that rates 182,000+ residential buildings by infrastructure, ecology, transport and neighbourhood quality, using Gradient Boosting models trained on LLM-as-judge evaluations.
SmartCart
↗AI-powered grocery shopping assistant. Uses Google Gemini with function calling to search products and compare prices across Serbian supermarkets through natural language.
MatchFit
↗Social platform for finding sports partners. Features a swipe-based matching interface, geospatial location filtering, and real-time chat.
Guess What
↗Real-time multiplayer drawing and guessing game. Built with Django and AJAX for live gameplay. Awarded 3rd place at the Yandex Lyceum project competition.
Education
- Faculty of Technical Sciences (FTN), University of Novi Sad
- Yandex School of Data Analysis — AI Agents Security Week intensive — certificate ↗
- Gimnazija Smart, IT track
Achievements
- Finalist — FON Hackathon (April 2026) · HomeSight
- 3rd place — Hakaton za srednjoškolce 8.0 (2026) · SmartCart
- Finalist — Hakaton za srednjoškolce 6.0 (2023)
- 3rd place — Yandex Lyceum project competition · Guess What — certificate ↗
- IT Girls Conference participant, Sarajevo (UNICEF)
- Regional Student Company Competition, Vojvodina
- Municipal Olympiad awards — Mathematics, English, Informatics, Physics (2020–2021)
Contact
Open to internships, collaborations, or just a chat.