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London, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Working on physical resource allocation and routing for Untether's speedAI accelerator for AI inference.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Developing and maintaining Quartus software’s FPGA device database and tooling with a team of 6 engineers• Lead team of 3 to architect and implement new methodology and tools for modelling the logical netlist, power, timing, placement & routing, and user configuration of a next-gen FPGA device family in Quartus software• Collaborated with over 10 stakeholders to design new methodology and tools for validating RTL, P&R, timing, power and configuration data of next-gen FPGA device… Show more • Developing and maintaining Quartus software’s FPGA device database and tooling with a team of 6 engineers• Lead team of 3 to architect and implement new methodology and tools for modelling the logical netlist, power, timing, placement & routing, and user configuration of a next-gen FPGA device family in Quartus software• Collaborated with over 10 stakeholders to design new methodology and tools for validating RTL, P&R, timing, power and configuration data of next-gen FPGA device architecture• Reduced build time by 80% (10 hrs) by implementing modularized build and testing infrastructure of device database API Show less

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

San Jose, California, United States

- Developed and maintained 10 different codebases for FPGA and ASIC design flow automation software, and provide advanced support, training and customized services to project owners for the usage of these design automation tools- Reduced the runtime and memory usage of FPGA specific front-end design verification tools by 10% & 15% respectively by proposing a new centralized satisfiability solver API and leading a team in developing, releasing, and supporting the codebase- Reduced online… Show more - Developed and maintained 10 different codebases for FPGA and ASIC design flow automation software, and provide advanced support, training and customized services to project owners for the usage of these design automation tools- Reduced the runtime and memory usage of FPGA specific front-end design verification tools by 10% & 15% respectively by proposing a new centralized satisfiability solver API and leading a team in developing, releasing, and supporting the codebase- Reduced online onboarding time by one month by developing a new comprehensive set of online onboarding training material and ramped up 3 new interns and full-time newcomer in the field of front-end design methodology and STA methodology- Created Python tools to autonomously generate and verify black-box RTL frameworks and FPGA software specific collateral from spreadsheets describing block-level design specifications- Established a comprehensive understanding of the FPGA specific and ASIC workflow including place and route, synthesis, static timing analysis for silicon design through creating automated flow tools and taking industry level Synopsys EDA tools courses Show less

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

- Developing a new “Technical Expert Finder” Application to aid employees in searching for technical experts based on certain key phrases or topics- Extracted natural language data from REST API requests from project tracking software using NLP data cleaning and encoding techniques like positional encoding, self-attention encoding and lemmatization- Applied the NLP clustering model RoBERTa develop an unsupervised classification algorithm to determine key topics and people from comments… Show more - Developing a new “Technical Expert Finder” Application to aid employees in searching for technical experts based on certain key phrases or topics- Extracted natural language data from REST API requests from project tracking software using NLP data cleaning and encoding techniques like positional encoding, self-attention encoding and lemmatization- Applied the NLP clustering model RoBERTa develop an unsupervised classification algorithm to determine key topics and people from comments and descriptions of tickets in internal project tracking and ticketing software. Show less

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

- Part time Backend Database Developer and ML Engineer for Canadian start-up Honest Empathy developing an innovative platform that combines therapeutic journaling and innovative support groups to provide mental health support- Measuring user mental health metrics through NLP Sentiment analysis and text summarization using the BERT neural network model- Developed, tested, and deployed client-side and server-side software for the Honest Empathy web application using React.js, Node.js… Show more - Part time Backend Database Developer and ML Engineer for Canadian start-up Honest Empathy developing an innovative platform that combines therapeutic journaling and innovative support groups to provide mental health support- Measuring user mental health metrics through NLP Sentiment analysis and text summarization using the BERT neural network model- Developed, tested, and deployed client-side and server-side software for the Honest Empathy web application using React.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS- Developed PostgreSQL database models for storing and using user mental health data in a secure and scalable way- Managed the secure migration of user data through functionality upgrades to our REST API and introduction of new data metrics Show less

Hamilton Ontario

Manages the help desk at the Lyons New Media Center in Mills Library on campus. - Operate and maintain 3D printers for student use- Manage and maintain the center, including our audio recording and video editing booths- Sign out and sign in equipment on loan to patrons

Hamilton Ontario

Conducted research in the Materials Engineering department under Dr.Hatem Zurob as an undergrad researcher.Projects:- Study conducted with Dr. Hatem Zurob on the dynamic stress-induced transformation of austenite into ferrite above Ae3 temperatures in low carbon steels. - Worked on Abaqus CAE to simulate compression tests of nylon honeycomb structures to explore the effect of defects within the structure with the help of Dr. Hiu Ming Yu.- Conducted research and produced and… Show more Conducted research in the Materials Engineering department under Dr.Hatem Zurob as an undergrad researcher.Projects:- Study conducted with Dr. Hatem Zurob on the dynamic stress-induced transformation of austenite into ferrite above Ae3 temperatures in low carbon steels. - Worked on Abaqus CAE to simulate compression tests of nylon honeycomb structures to explore the effect of defects within the structure with the help of Dr. Hiu Ming Yu.- Conducted research and produced and analysed the results with the help of Dr. Hatem Zurob and Dr. Brian Langelier on a new TiC complex steel from Stelco reveals the microstructure which contributes to the high strength properties of this steel. Experience in preparing samples for optical microscopy, electron microscopy and electropolishing for atom probe analysis. Have training and experience on high resolution optical microscopes, scanning electron microscopes, heat treatment furnaces and working in UHV and operating UHV systems. Show less

Hamilton Ontario, Canada

Student organized engineering team responsible for building and racing Formula Electric SAE cars.- Project lead in creating rear wing active-aerodynamics - Finite element analysis and manufacturing for aero-package on Solidworks- Housing design for LV control system

London, Canada Area

Developed a new, user friendly and interactive website for Stratford based private school Nancy Campbell Academy and other promotional materials to replace outdated website using Photoshop, Illustrator and Adobe Muse.

London, Canada Area

Developed online marketing material using Adobe Muse, Photoshop and Illustrator to replace outdated website for Mold and Die Manufacturing and Engineering Company based in London Ontario.

London, Canada Area

Developed a new, user friendly and interactive website for Alink Info to replace outdated website and other promotional materials using Photoshop, Illustrator and Wix.