Zakaria Shire
London,Ontario
Summary
Motivated CS student blending tech and business thinking, seeking a role with Western WDS (tech/product/analytics team). I bring hands‑on coding, strong math foundations, and an entrepreneurial mindset to ship useful tools, dashboards, and student‑facing products.
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
Work History
Project ( August 2025 - Present).
Western ICFAR and Frederick
Collaborating with researchers at Western ICFAR and Frederick to design and implement a real-time dashboard to monitor and display plant sensor data from indoor agrotunnel and outdoor environments.
- Processing and visualizing live sensor data for environmental metrics
- Exploring JavaScript and web frameworks for UI/UX and data rendering
- Integrating backend logic with front-end components (self-directed learning)
Research Assistant – Western ICFAR
Professor Joshua
05.2025 - 08.2025
- Collected and organized environmental data from indoor and outdoor plant experiments
- Conducted maintenance and monitoring of controlled plant environments including indoor agrotunnel setups
- Currently collaborating and working with researchers to explore and implement technical solutions using dashboards and programming tools to support plant monitoring systems.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Western University
London05-2028
Skills
- Unix skills: ls, wildcards (*, **), pipes/redirects, directory/navigation
- CS fundamentals: OOP, recursion & two-pointers, sorting (bubble/selection/insertion), Big-O, arrays/lists/stacks/queues/maps
Languages: Java, Python, JavaScript; familiar with C, Bash, HTML/CSS
- Analytical: strong math (algebra/calculus) and hands‑on coding; comfortable and trying new tech
- Team‑first: proactive communicator; open to product, analytics, or platform work inside a business‑oriented club
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Somali
Native or Bilingual
Interests
Cloud Engineering, Data Engineering, AI Engineering, Machine Learning
Timeline
Research Assistant – Western ICFAR
Professor Joshua
05.2025 - 08.2025
Project ( August 2025 - Present).
Western ICFAR and Frederick
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Western University