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Toronto, Ontario, CA

Data Platform Engineering - Financial Book of RecordWorked on the Data Platform team to design, build, ship and maintain event-driven microservice based backend systems to reliably enable real-time financial data for all Wealthsimple core financial product offerings. Also worked to hire, mentor and support other engineers.

Redmond, Washington, US

App and App Platform engineering.Worked on the Windows & Devices Engineering team to drive design, build and ship end to end core User Facing Experiences for Windows 11 / 10 / 10X operating system Shell, Chromium Edge, UWP, ReactJS. Reaching 1b+ users.- Windows 11 - Widgets - Windows 11 - Theme Aware Splash Screens on App launch- Windows 10 - New Edge.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Designed and developed a centralized self-serve ETL pipeline creation tool on Hive for use by all business intelligence (BI) teams across Amazon, incorporating built-in monitoring and job scheduling for each individual pipeline.Decreased BI pipeline creation time from days to minutes, ultimately freeing up a large amount of human engineering resources.

Mclean, VA, US

Designed and developed from the ground up, an automated mail return processing service leveraging OCR and various other image processing tools. Built in Python. Worked closely with business customers requesting this service to determine requirements and timeline to determine feasibility. Solution provided approximately $500,000 annually in savings.

Redmond, Washington, US

Worked in a team of 4 engineers, 1 designer to prototype an interactive, context intelligent Slack chat bot to aid in project management in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). The bot creates, manages and tracks work items in a conversation based environment.Wrote and implemented a technical design for the authentication flow when new users acquire and.

Palo Alto, CA, US

I worked closely with the Advertisement Data Platform team to design, build and deploy a data availability analytics dashboard tool to production for use by anyone in A9 who works with Advertisement supply metadata. This tool involved building a complex backend involving multiple ETL processes to stage high volumes of operational advertisement metadata in.

Using Microsoft's Azure, Kinect, Visual studio suite with Unity3D game engine, created a multiplayer first person shooter game controlled by the user's body movements through motion sensing via Kinect. Multiple players can join in the game so long as they have the client.

Created an award winning android application in a team of two using the Vuforia platform (Qualcomm) and Myo API (Thalmic labs) simultaneously to create an augmented reality environment wherein the user can control a virtual object through the use of the Myo Gesture control arm band. We were awarded the Best use of Vuforia prize by Qualcomm.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Through the use of Apache HBase technologies, I designed and implemented an Optimized Map Reduce strategy for searching through large sets of genomic data on top of several Hadoop clusters, with a 90% reduction in search time for a set of genomic search queries. I also Implemented a benchmarking tool suite to gauge the performance retrieve actionable.

I worked with a small team to construct a batch upload and application edit of teacher/class enrollment data tables via implementation with tools such as Django, SQL, Javascript and HTML5. I have utilized the UNIX command line heavily to setup main development environment dependences such as Vagrant and Github. I have written code in a structured and.

I led a small team to develop an auxiliary application to the core processes of this startup service, pertaining to linguistic semantics in Python from the ground up. I have Implemented Natural Language Processing tools via Python to build an intelligent user friendly content-based question generator in half the expected time. 80% of question output was.

Waterloo, Ontario, CA

I worked with a small team of researchers to develop a method of measuring the micro-concentration solubility of a polystyrene-toluene nanoporous film into a solvent such as heptane. A working process to achieve this was developed in little under 2 weeks. Through this position, I have learnt to characterize the film samples using an ellipsometer.