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Canada

Lead R&D in the domains of data, analytics and artificial intelligence investigating and building tools around various aspects to:• enable Responsible, Trustworthy and Ethical AI• enable an AI governance program• enhance traditional Data governance programs and strategies to accelerate and support AI adoption• automate the AI lifecycle through MLOps• align AI models with Business capabilities through an API strategy and a Microservices layer• leverage the elasticity of the Cloud to minimize the operational cost of AI adoption• standardize and govern data operations and pipelines to accelerate enterprise wide analytics initiatives in a governed and managed way

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-Established foundation for MLOps pipeline and automation-Created PoC for a Transformer based deep learning model-Defined R&D roadmap of potential modifications and enhancements to ML algorithms and Neural Network architecture to improve KPIs

Toronto

-Chief Architect overseeing Product Innovation, Research and Development, and Technology Strategy-Established SDLC process, Agile methodology, DevOps culture, Development standards, Continuous Integration pipeline and Automated testing frameworks for internal R&D projects-Established interview process and responsible for building large technical teams with senior resources-Took several products from concept to running in production at some of the biggest financial institutions in the world-Lead and managed large teams across multiple R&D projects and consulting engagements concurrently-Engaged in pre-sales activities, client education and staff mentoring-Also responsible for customer engagements and consulting services. Consulting engagements ranged from establishing Enterprise Architecture practices, defining Reference Architectures, defining Solution Architectures, establishing SDLC best practices, managing development teams, reviewing and saving failed projects

Toronto, Canada Area

-Responsible for leading the design and development of various platforms and products across different verticals-Products included a travel platform, social network, RFID based waste management system, mobile applications, and asset tracking system

Toronto, Montreal, Chicago, Nyc

-Responsible for development of various applications, including financial applications for Capital markets, Commercial banking and Retail banking lines of business-Performed architectural reviews and code reviews for complex banking applications that had been off-shored and were experiencing major delays and cost overruns. Identified fundamental but non-trivial issues around multi-threading, security, data integrity and high availability

Toronto

-Progressed from Developer to Development Team Lead-Worked on development of IBM's e-commerce platform (Net.Commerce/Websphere Commerce)-Selected for IBM's fast track program for young employees with high potential-Received several awards for high achievements

Applied Science And Engineering, Computer Engineering

Masters In Engineering, Computer Engineering