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Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

- Built features & fixed bugs on the RBC iOS mobile app, impacting millions of active users.- Actively reviewed PRs, addressed warnings, optimized code readability, converted Objective-C to Swift, maintained test coverage, delved into Table views, leveraged feature toggles, and operated with modern design patterns like MVVM and MVC.- Activities: Battlesnake, Case Competition, hosted "Intro to iOS" workshop

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

- Conducted bug fixes and feature changes to the Sun Life mobile app in both Android using Kotlin and iOS using Swift.- Joined the Sun Life Cloud Engineering Group to learn more about the cloud, made their quarterly review presentation to discuss the different cloud features they were working on, and introduced the presentation to Sun Life Technology as a whole.- Participated in the Sun Life Co-op Case Competition, researched and presented a real-world problem at Sun Life to the VPs and… Show more - Conducted bug fixes and feature changes to the Sun Life mobile app in both Android using Kotlin and iOS using Swift.- Joined the Sun Life Cloud Engineering Group to learn more about the cloud, made their quarterly review presentation to discuss the different cloud features they were working on, and introduced the presentation to Sun Life Technology as a whole.- Participated in the Sun Life Co-op Case Competition, researched and presented a real-world problem at Sun Life to the VPs and 100+ Sun Life employees.- A representative of the Sun Life Student Influencer Committee, representing 200+ Sun Life coops and helping out with speaking opportunities, leadership initiatives, and event management. For example, I had the opportunity to represent Sun Life as a panelist at the YNCN Career Fair Summit, conveying my experience at Sun Life to 1000+ students. Show less

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

- Spearheaded coded proof of concepts using XCode, Swift, JIRA, Bitbucket, & Figma and presented to stakeholders.- Debugged and implemented iOS UI tests for DevOps.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

- Leveraging resources to maximize learning the responsibility for developing test scenarios using Mathworks Simulink and ROS2, and getting an understanding of the whole autonomous vehicle as a system.- Building publisher, subscriber, and routing models using MathLabs to simulate traffic lights as needed for the Mathworks Challenge at the SAE AutoDrive Challenge.

Houston, Texas, United States

Incorporated a JavaScript SDK with the Kurtosis software using TypeScript, gRPC, and protobuf to target an audience of users where 4/5 of them use JavaScript. Refactored Golang functions to provide the best possible onboarding experience for customers. Leveraged personal growth and best practices as a programmer through methodologies like Getting Things Done, Git-Flow, and CircleCI.

Providence, Rhode Island, United States

One of the 8% selected students for the Pangea.app Top Emerging Talent: a program to identify the most capable, reliable, and motivated college students in the world and match them with the talent marketplace platform's most promising, high-growth companies.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Allocated 80+ hours of time to create mathematical problems using the Hypatia software & developed full-stack web application in an agile team of 5 with CheckMath’s API using Django and React which saves 25% of time for student users in organizing and discovering weaknesses for a course (during the previous fall term).

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Piloted object avoidance research for drones which was well-received by the team and given the green flag to continue working on it and implementing it with the rest of the software team• Building target detection for drones in a team of 4 using PyTorch (YoloV3), gRPC, and Python• Learning machine learning basics (training, neural networks, classifications in PyTorch, convolutional neural networks) from APS360 courseHere are papers and sources I have used in my research for… Show more • Piloted object avoidance research for drones which was well-received by the team and given the green flag to continue working on it and implementing it with the rest of the software team• Building target detection for drones in a team of 4 using PyTorch (YoloV3), gRPC, and Python• Learning machine learning basics (training, neural networks, classifications in PyTorch, convolutional neural networks) from APS360 courseHere are papers and sources I have used in my research for object detection:- Source 1: https://www.epfl.ch/labs/cvlab/research/uav/research-unmanned-detection/- Source 2: https://engineering.purdue.edu/~bouman/UAV_Dataset/pubs/IROS-2016.pdf Show less

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Redesigned data analysis and collection processes by researching natural language processing strategies (part of the StudentOnTrack Project Team whose research hypthosis was based increasing motivation in the classroom through A/B comparisons)• Established literature review and survey coding for the SIGCSE and CHI research papers,receiving an acceptance into the SIGCSE Technical Symposium and CHI Parallel Presentation.• Optimized project management processes (sending emails… Show more • Redesigned data analysis and collection processes by researching natural language processing strategies (part of the StudentOnTrack Project Team whose research hypthosis was based increasing motivation in the classroom through A/B comparisons)• Established literature review and survey coding for the SIGCSE and CHI research papers,receiving an acceptance into the SIGCSE Technical Symposium and CHI Parallel Presentation.• Optimized project management processes (sending emails, managing meetings, formulating plans and improving communications channels), resulting in downtime of training new lab members by 30%. Show less

Honours Bachelor Of Science With High Distinction, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Governing Council - Academic Board & Planning and Budget Committee, UCLit - Upper Year Rep and Deputy Mental.

Education record

A selected group of 24 admitted into the 2020 Technology Leadership Initiative at the University of Toronto chosen based on resilience.

High School Diploma, French Immersion Diploma & Certificates, Grades 9-12

Activities and Societies: - Communications Director at the Medical Undergraduate Society (MUS) - Bilingual Provincial Debate Team - DECA.