Colin Barber Email & Phone Number

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

• Gathered requirements, architected, designed, and led the development of an automated data collection and reporting system using Apache Airflow that saves internal clients hours each day
• Assumed leadership responsibilities by running scrum meetings, mentoring new developers, and defining code standards
• Implemented new features and resolved issues across multiple Django backend systems

Halifax, Canada Area

• Created a Jupyter Notebook workflow using TensorFlow, Amazon Web Services, and Pandas that enabled other teams to train, evaluate, and deploy machine learning solutions
• Developed forecasting models for future part quality prediction and created visual analysis tools using Matplotlib
• Optimized a machine learning model to run at 8 milliseconds per prediction to meet a client’s real-time predictions requirement while maintaining 95% accuracy

Fredericton, New Brunswick

• Developed machine learning models achieving over 90% accuracy for a world leading client in automotive parts manufacturing
• Improved the performance of multiple solutions by researching and implementing cutting-edge machine learning techniques
• Contributed to the deployment of models for defect detection and quality prediction

Fredericton, New Brunswick

• Worked on an 8-person scrum team doing full stack development of web application features in Angular and Java for a healthcare information system
• Reduced client complaints by resolving data integrity issues in a PostgreSQL database
• Increased unit testing coverage using JUnit and Selenium

Fredericton, New Brunswick

• Designed and built an electronic medical records transmission module that saves clients 5-10 hours per week using a RESTful API service
• Researched and performed the deployment of a Cassandra NoSQL backend database cluster

Dartmouth, Nova Scotia