Benjamin Fonooni, Phd Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Led overall technology leadership and direction, overseeing mobile apps, cloud infrastructure, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision application development• Facilitated scrum sessions and coordinated sprint planning, retrospective, and demonstrations• Served as the architect and leader of the research and development team responsible for the iSelfie Test platform• Led a team of Data Scientists, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision experts in crafting an advanced AI model to detect signature manifestations of COVID-19 on human facial and ocular surfaces with sensitivity and specificity comparable to antigen tests• Directed a team of Data Scientists, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision experts in creating a remote vital sign monitoring system, focusing on generating cardiac signals using rPPG• Designed and optimized data models for two extensive data lakes• Formulated long-term solutions focused on cost containment and operational efficiency enhancements• Ensured team engagement, guiding individuals through career milestones, and reinforcing their contributions to company objectives• Collaborated closely with the Customer Success team to troubleshoot technical challenges and address technology-related client escalations• Partnered with the Sales team to expand the client base and foster strategic partnerships• Delivered regular market insights to inform and maintain a current technology strategy, bolstering the company's competitive edge

London, Gb

• Trained and supervised over 200 junior full stack Java developers, testers and data scientists and helped them with developing their technical and interpersonal skills to deliver solutions in complex IT environments• Conducted technical mock interviews and helped trainees starting careers mainly at the most reputable financial institutions across Canada and United States• Provided high quality training and tailored offerings to suit specific client needs• Troubleshot personnel issues to ensure resolution in line with company's values• Worked with the HR and Recruitment teams to set up a sustainable engineering hiring funnel for junior developers, software testers and data scientist roles• Taught Data Structures, Algorithms, Java, Java EE, common JEE frameworks including Spring, Spring MVC, Spring AOP, Spring Security, JPA, Hibernate and RESTful application development• Managed teams of Java developers to build enterprise applications in an agile environment providing sprint plans and doing regular code reviews• Provided architecture design and implemented project infrastructure to be used by junior developers• Implemented the best practices and common design patterns to develop secure and scalable applications conforming to industry standards

Umeå, Västerbotten, Se

Studied Cognitive Science and Robotics. I was involved in an EU funded project INTRO that was heading for summarizing some of the notable approaches in the area of Learning from Demonstration. My main responsibilities were:• Designed and developed robot learning algorithms based on Machine Learning and Deep Learning algorithms• Focused mainly on environment perception and robot's states prediction• Implemented series of Ant Colony Optimization algorithms to optimize Learning from Demonstration• Developed Microservices and RESTful APIs using Spring framework, Hibernate and MySQL database• Worked with large datasets containing robot's sensor and motory data• Developed a shared control system using Computer Vision techniques and theory of mind• Performed various software testing• Integrated Python, C# and C++ code developed by five partner universities with the Java RESTful services• Prepared professional presentations to discuss results in meetings, conferences and workshops

• Led the strategy, planning, and execution of the technology roadmap & OKR’s• Led estimating and capacity planning activities• Provided impactful insights into the company’s strategic direction, which led into 3X revenue generation• Led the development team of over 20 junior and senior developers, UI/UX experts, QA analyst and responsible for delivering large-scale enterprise solutions• Managed and contributed to all aspects of software development including functional and technical specifications, design, development and production support• Designed and implemented over 10 custom enterprise solutions using Java and open source frameworks including Spring, Hibernate and Struts• Worked with large datasets using Oracle, MySQL and MS SQL Server

Taught the following courses:• C/C++ Programming• Core Java and Advanced Java• Java EE Application Design including Core XML, JSP, JSF, EJB, XML with Java and Web Services• Java open source tools including Hibernate, Spring and Struts• Web Designing with HTML, CSS and JavaScript• SQL and RDBMS Concepts with Oracle and MySQL

• Led the team of developers responsible for developing two out of nine enterprise solutions for Iran's Smart Fuel System national project using Java EE and open source frameworks• Optimized data models running on Oracle and tuned high performance algorithms to handle large datasets containing more than 2.5 million transactions daily (~1 billion transactions yearly)• Designed and developed solutions based on ITIL standards• Supervised integration of nine individual subsystems• Collaborated effectively with software developer teams located in Iran and China to perform various software testing• Developed strong communication skills

We researched, designed and implemented a prediction engine for Forex Market using Data Fusion, Decision Trees and other ML algorithms.

Principal developer of a real estate management system

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cognitive Robotics

Visiting Phd Student, Cognitive Robotics