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AMIR HASSANI

Toronto,ON

Summary

Machine Learning Engineer Creative and committed to making a difference. Software engineer with 4 years of experience in ML projects and 7 years as Full Stack Developer. Excited about finding creative solutions to problems that a business may face and making challenging tasks easy to handle. Passionate about Mathematics and Statistics, and specifically Finance related subjects.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Tagmond
09.2014 - 12.2019
  • Managed a team of 6 developers.
  • Developed BackEnd using Ruby on Rails and NodeJS ,and FrontEnd, using HTML, CSS, JS, React.
  • Incorporated Decision Trees to build predictive models to anticipate customers' behaviours.
  • Engineered Recommendation and Ranking Systems to personalize customer experience, leading to 28% growth in sales.
  • Designed Regression Model to predict ETA of customer orders with 89.7% accuracy
  • Visualized business data using Tableau for better decision making.

Artificial Intelligence Consultant

ISED Government Of Canada
04.2021 - 02.2022
  • Conceptualized and Implemented Sentiment Analysis Tool using NLP to rate audience comments on SMs.
  • Developed model to infer user gender from profile picture using pre-trained CNN model with AUC of 0.87
  • Collected all interactions and events of followers from LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages using Web Scraping and official API.

Machine Learning Engineer

Glory Star Trading
01.2020 - 06.2022
  • Developed Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) model for Crypto Currency/Stock markets based on fundamental and technical factors.
  • Performed Time Series analysis using LSTM/RNN on asset prices, and used VAE to compress RL model input and reduce noise.
  • Developed DAGs and production environment using Apache Airflow for scheduling and automation of ETL and reporting.
  • Loaded and processed billions of data rows using Spark, trained and tuned DRL model using Ray.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

TRAM Global
06.2022 - Current
  • Designed an ML model using LSTM and CNN to infer user mode of transportation from geolocational information, gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer in smartphones.
  • Built a model that classifies user hubs (home, work, shop, etc.) using GIS and Neural Network.
  • Designed a model to detect user mobility patterns and suggest low-carbon transportation modes to encourage sustainable transportation habits, using Markov Chain Model and XGBoost.

Education

Artificial Intelligence

Schulich School Of Business / York
2021
  • Implemented both Neural Networks and Regression models for prediction of housing market prices using HouseSigma data.
  • Performed text vectorization using TF-IDF, Word2Vec, and BERT.

Master of Science - Information Technology

University Of Tehran
2018
  • Designed and programmed a Chatbot using Tensorflow and the Telegram API. GPA 3.7/4
  • Thesis Paper: Bayesian inference of private social network links using prior information and propagated data. In Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Vol. 125, pp. 72–80). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2018.11,

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Tehran
2015
  • Developed a game to play chess with the user and determine the best next move to win the game, GPA: 3.74/4

Skills

  • Programming Languages (Python, Ruby, Java, NodeJS, C)
  • Libraries (PyTorch, Keras, Sklearn, NLTK, Pandas, Numpy, BeautifulSoup, FreqTrade, TensorTrade )
  • Database Management (SQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, DynamoDB, BigQuery, FireStore)
  • System Design & Development
  • Distributed Computing (Ray , PySpark)
  • Data Analysis Tools (PowerBI, Tableau, GA)
  • Cloud Computing (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Apache Airflow, Apache Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes
  • Unit Testing and CI/CD

Timeline

Senior Machine Learning Engineer - TRAM Global
06.2022 - Current
Artificial Intelligence Consultant - ISED Government Of Canada
04.2021 - 02.2022
Machine Learning Engineer - Glory Star Trading
01.2020 - 06.2022
Senior Software Engineer - Tagmond
09.2014 - 12.2019
Schulich School Of Business / York - , Artificial Intelligence
University Of Tehran - Master of Science, Information Technology
University of Tehran - Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
AMIR HASSANI