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Redmond, Washington, US

Redmond, Washington, US

Redmond, Washington, US

- Developed a feature that allows users to internally transform large datasets ingested into Dynamics 365 Customer Insights (CI) with the help of SQL queries and Spark clusters- Built an API used by the CI client to pass queries to the back-end, and a back-end pipeline that validates SQL queries and submits SQL jobs to a Spark cluster for data processing.

New York, NY, US

- Developed three ByteBuddy-enabled integrations (for Spring task scheduling, the Grizzly async HTTPclient, and the Grizzly filter-chain server) that send traces to Datadog via the Java tracer- Transformed an internal tool used to study the performance of the tracer to send JVM metrics toDatadog via the Statsd protocol, run from a CLI, and use Gradle to.

San Francisco, California, US

- Built a security operations app that automates repetitive tasks with Swift and VIPER architecture- Implemented a UI-rendering feature that uses the factory design pattern, Codable, and dynamic data to create and populate card components, dynamic forms, and action buttons at runtime - Reduced response payloads by 83% and minimized the number of API.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

- Co-developed an iOS app with 800,000 monthly users in Swift for playing stations and podcasts- Built out a media playback SDK in Objective-C to include a buffer to pause live stations, AVQueuePlayer to cache songs, and view controller logic for displaying preroll and midroll ads- Created modules to display recently, subscribed to, and downloaded podcasts.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

- Created XenoClassify, an open-source command-line tool that classifies sequencing data from xenograft samples with 96% accuracy- Integrated XenoClassify into a workflow using Java and performed integration tests using Jenkins to streamline job submission on OICR’s high performance cluster- Wrote scripts in Python, Perl, and Bash to process and analyze.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

- Co-developed cell tracking software that measures changes in eccentricity, nuclear area, and orientation to track the movement of cells in a time-course- Added mitosis detection and tracking visualization features with Matlab’s image processing library- Conducted research in the field of cell biology to determine if animal cells autonomously sense their.

- Coached high school students in math and computer science by addressing areas of difficulty - Devised creative methods to accommodate personal learning styles

- Offered fellowship to residents with dementia and Alzheimer’s and proactively identified their needs- Facilitated and organized performances, carolling, and crafts within the retirement home

Richmond Hill, Ontario, CA

- Collaborated with retail store management and associates to serve customers effectively- Sold customers add-ons and replacement plans for technological products

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc, Biomedical Engineering

High School, Advanced Placement Program