Alex F Athanassakos Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

I have recruited and led the ML function at Resolver since its inception. I perform all hands-on duties that my team does, this includes: - Training and deploying a custom NLP model into production within a year of my hire.- Constructing batch inference pipelines that deliver critical offline results directly to customers. - Daily engineering and applied research experience with PyTorch, HuggingFace, Pandas, AWS and WandB. I also:- Collaborate with internal Product… Show more I have recruited and led the ML function at Resolver since its inception. I perform all hands-on duties that my team does, this includes: - Training and deploying a custom NLP model into production within a year of my hire.- Constructing batch inference pipelines that deliver critical offline results directly to customers. - Daily engineering and applied research experience with PyTorch, HuggingFace, Pandas, AWS and WandB. I also:- Collaborate with internal Product SME’s to determine project vision and establish scope.- Ensure the wellness and fulfillment of my team members.- Chat with customers to find out what their problems are and how Data Science can help solve them. Show less

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

I helped guide the business towards realistic AI solutions for valuable business problems. I hired a team, laid infrastructure groundwork and worked closely with all relevant Product stakeholders.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Built Keras machine learning models for image segmentation of construction plans.• Built Python 3 data processing, training and deployment pipelines for machine learning models on Google Cloud Platform.• Built NLP models for classification of text from construction plans, achieving accuracies in the 80's.• Created architecture for, and implemented, data collection, pipeline and storage for price forecasting models. Utilized Scrapy for data collection and pipeline, and MongoDB for… Show more • Built Keras machine learning models for image segmentation of construction plans.• Built Python 3 data processing, training and deployment pipelines for machine learning models on Google Cloud Platform.• Built NLP models for classification of text from construction plans, achieving accuracies in the 80's.• Created architecture for, and implemented, data collection, pipeline and storage for price forecasting models. Utilized Scrapy for data collection and pipeline, and MongoDB for storage. Show less

Toronto, Canada Area

I used Wordpress to build Toronto BJJ's new website (awaiting launch). Toronto BJJ is the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu academy at which I train and a community in which I take great pride.

Toronto, Canada Area

I was a Teaching Assistant for an introductory Computer Science course, where I taught a lab hour, administered quizzes and marked tests. Topics covered included string manipulation, functions and recursion.

Toronto, Canada Area

I was a Teaching Assistant for an introductory Computer Science course, where I taught a lab hour, administered quizzes and marked tests. Topics covered included string manipulation, functions and recursion.

St. George Campus

I was a Teaching Assistant for an introductory Computer Science course, where I taught a lab hour, administered quizzes and marked tests. Topics covered included string manipulation, functions and recursion.

Remote

I built a front-end logic class to interact between the UI and the back-end, helped to plan back-end architecture and wrote a Python script to parse raw HTML for key-words.

Downtown Toronto

I was responsible for developing and designing, from scratch, a web-application that would allow users to dynamically construct a visual family tree. My client was a therapist, who intended to market the application to other therapists and counsellors.The app would be used to facilitate patients' insights into causal relationships between psychological states and interpersonal relationships.

Downtown Toronto

I was responsible for developing and designing a plug-in that accomplished core functionality for Parlay Ideas, an innovative online-discussion platform.

Toronto

I was tasked with creating the entire client side for the West End Food Co-operative's new website, which had had several failed attempts. I began a new version from scratch, had bi-weekly meetings with the client(s), and co-ordinated development with the IT team.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Computer Science And Neuroscience (Double Major), 3.0 Gpa

Activities and Societies: University of Toronto Campaign For Community. Artificial Intelligence Computer Science track.

Ios Development, Mobile Application Development, 70%

Learning Objective C and the latest iOS API's. The end project was the development of a complete iPhone application.

Professional Web Development And Design, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia And Information Resources Design, 80%

This was a rigorous program, requiring an average of 75% or higher across an array of front and back-end web development and design.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy, 85%

Dean's Honours 2011 and 2012. Thesis work focussing on Mahayana Buddhism and the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein.