Steven Vafadar
Calgary,AB
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Self Driving Software Engineer
AC Robotics (Robotics Club)
09.2022 - Current
- Wrote Object Detection Algorithms in Tensorflow, using Waymo Open Dataset to identify 80+ classes.
- Achieved Detection accuracies of +80% on object identification
- Wrote C++ SLAM algorithms to enable the car to drive autonomously
- Wrote Linear Regression Python algorithms as the initial method of autonomy
Machine Learning Software Engineer
VELTERRA
12.2021 - 12.2022
- Designed Convolutional Neural Networks to Analyze Mineral Data to analyze 20 classes - achieving accuracies of 95% in classification
- Developed Object-Detection algorithms in Python using YOLO-NAS to detect foreign objects in company trailers, reducing hardware errors by 30%
- Further developed company GUI system in Windows WPF C#- reducing total application errors by 20%
- Wrote C++ code to interact with trailer embedded systems, increasing rock scanning times by 10%
- Image Processing of Mineral + Rock Samples using Numpy, Matplotlib and Seaborn, analyzing 100s of images
- Technologies Used: Python, PyTorch, C++, Flask, SQL
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado12.2024
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Centennial College
Toronto, ON01.2023
Skills
- Python
- C
- SQL
- TensorFlow
- PyTorch
- Numpy
- Pandas
- Convolutional Neural Networks
- Image Segmentation
- Object Detection
- Computer Vision
Accomplishments
- YYC HACKS 2023, TOP 5 RANKING, Out team achieved a top 5 ranking submission, based off an app we created that gave consumers purchase-points for shopping locally in Calgary., https://github.com/tremenditomen/yychacks2023
- SCHULICH HACKS 2023, GRAPHQL WINNER, Won the prize for the best full stack application implementing GraphQL., https://devpost.com/software/part-ai
Certification
- OpenCV CVDL Master Program
- IBM AI Engineering
- IBM Applied AI Professional
- IBM Data Engineering
- Udacity Deep Learning
- Udacity Computer Vision
- Udacity Self-Driving Software Engineer
- Udacity Robotics Software Engineer
- Udacity Natural Language Processing
- Udacity Data Engineering with AWS
- Data Structures and Algorithms with Python, C++
Projects
AI VOICE ASSISTANT, PYTHON
https://github.com/SVafadar69/VoiceAssistant
EYE DISEASE CLASSIFICATION, PYTHON, REACT,
https://github.com/SVafadar69/EyeDiseaseClassification
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
French
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Self Driving Software Engineer
AC Robotics (Robotics Club)
09.2022 - Current
Machine Learning Software Engineer
VELTERRA
12.2021 - 12.2022
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Colorado
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Centennial College
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