Work Experience
NLP R&D Engineer
Advanced Symbolics Inc.
Oct 2022 - Present
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1. Building AskPolly for intelligent mining of peoples' opinions.
2. Working on an array of NLP problems including topic modelling, lexical search, semantic search, clustering, summarization and more.
Wanna know more about AskPolly? Hit me up :)
ML and NLP Research Assistant
IBM CAS
May 2021 - August 2022
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1. Recipient of Scholarship Grant valued at $25,000.
2. Worked on Intelligent Log Parsing under the supervision of Prof Paula Branco, Prof Guy-Vincent Jourdan and Prof Herna Viktor. Author for the publications which formed the basis of my Masters thesis "A System for Automatic Information Extraction from Log Files".
3. My thesis recently got nominated for The Best Thesis Award at uOttawa.
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Ottawa
September 2021 - Present
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Teaching Assistant for 2 courses:
1. CSI 4142: Fundamentals in Data Science.
2. CSI 5388: AI for Cybersecurity and Applications.
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Day-to-day activities include:
1. Conducting Lab sessions
2. Preparing and grading assignments.
3. Assisting the students with Projects.
4. Setting up the cloud infrastructure for projects and assignments.
Python + Data Pipeline Engineer
Quovantis Technologies
June 2019 - October 2020
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Tech Stack: Python, Flask, Django, Tornado, Redis, Celery, PostgreSQL, Apache Airflow, AWS cloud, Snips-NLU
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At Quovantis Technologies, I crafted delightful experiences for 2 products: mPulse Mobile and Zepplin.
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Python / Data Pipeline Engineer @ mPulse Mobile
- Responsible for creating data pipelines / DAGs using Apache Airflow.
- Heavily refactored the existing code-base to remove code duplicacy.
- Optimised existing workflows and made them ~10x more efficient.
- Responsible for building new features + fixing existing bugs in the system.
- Responsible for fixing the existing vulnerabilities and code smells in the code-base.
Python / AWS Serverless Developer @ Zepplin
- Employed FaaS (function as a service) using AWS Lambda.
- Responsible for writing REST APIs and business logic using various design patterns.
- Responsible for carrying out database design.
- Active part of the product's design and brain-storming sessions.
- Took ownership of writing unit-test cases and clocked code-coverage of over 75%
