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San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

Waterloo, Ontario, CA

- Engineered features from C++ code, implemented feature selection methods, and developed classification models to determine code authorship.- Implemented a fuzzy parser that converts C++ functions to an Abstract Syntax Tree using ambiguous grammar.

Santa Monica, California, US

- Extracted, cleaned and analyzed data to create business insights and reports using Python and Google BigQuery.- Built and maintained dashboards and metrics in Looker to monitor the performance of company products.- Created automated ETL processes using Airflow, Python, and Google BigQuery

Mclean, VA, US

- Developed parallelized Python pipelines to extract, clean and generate new features from millions of records in Redshift and Snowflake databases.- Wrote and performed extensive validation on feature engineering code, and performed feature selection using R tools and scikit-learn packages.

Mclean, VA, US

- Built and deployed to production a distributed, scalable ETL data pipeline hosted in AWS.- Automated the generation, monitoring and rehydration of the pipeline's infrastructure using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible and bash scripts.- Developed an easy-to-use Python library for analytics on the app events processed by the pipeline.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

- Decreased Redshift query response times by improving the original database schema, designingdenormalized fact tables, and building ETL pipelines to these tables using Hadoop, Hive and Python.- Developed algorithms for locating titles in tweets using natural language processing methods in Python. - Extracted and analyzed data to generate business insights.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition is the premiere student competition in Synthetic Biology.The Mathematical Modelling Team is the quantitative and computational branch of the Waterloo iGEM team. We use model-based design techniques like sensitivity and stability analysis to predict the behaviour of the genetic machines.

Victoria, British Columbia, CA

- Increased the efficiency of the analysis and manipulation of large data sets by using Excel and VBA (and occasionally Python and Unix), reducing the analysis time to as low as 5 minutes- Reconciled financial differences of up to $7 million dollars for clients using Excel analytical tools such as Solver, Fuzzy Lookup and Goal Seek.- Learned and documented.

- Spearheaded the development of sponsor relationships for the conference with a team of 4 others.- Negotiated over $4000 of support from companies such as SMART Technologies and Boltmade.- Communicated with and maintain relations with our various sponsors and speakers

Mississauga, Ontario, CA

- Tested web software and hardware for reliability, documented test results in Excel reports after performing root cause analysis on any bugs, and resolved software and hardware issues using manual procedures and software tools.- Learned company systems and test processes within first week and trained my incoming supervisor and new workers on testing.

Waterloo, Ontario, CA

- Managed the budget and finances of the collective Waterloo South Residence council using MS Excel- Allocated funding for events based on predicted cost breakdown and analysis- Planned, marketed and organised multiple events for hundreds of students in a cost-effective manner, saving up to 20% of the funding originally allocated in certain cases