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Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada

Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada

• Maintained Dockerized event-driven data streaming pipelines deployed on Amazon Web Services ECS that converted data of varying formats ingested from internet-facing endpoints into schema registry enforced Avro format.
• Migrated CI/CD pipelines from CircleCI to GitHub Actions to reduce yearly infrastructure costs
• Increased code standards within the team by overhauling code merging and deployment processes; integrated SonarQube functionality into CI/CD and PR review workflows to automatically assess code quality and security
• Architectured a Spark ETL orchestrated by Airflow that reads parquet files stored on Amazon Web Services S3, hashes personally identifiable information, and writes the data to a Databricks warehouse in Delta format
• Standardized the team’s tech stack and reduced the operational overhead of unmaintainable production systems written using Akka Streams and ZIO by pragmatically rewriting the Scala micro-services to use Kafka Streams

Oakville, Ontario, Canada

• Web scraped the contact information of professors and administration at Canadian universities using Python and Selenium; utilized a LSTM RNN trained on census data to isolate South Asian university staff by their name
• Tremendously increased the size of the non-profit’s mailing list database by thousands of new entries

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Programmed non-trivial JSON parsing software in Python to decode terabytes of traffic data about vehicles on Ontario highways and in Toronto
• Cleaned and normalized inconsistent datasets into partitioned lane and microwave data for SQL analysis