Ali Honarmand

Experience

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  Calgary Tutoring Centre

  Sept 2011 - Jun 2012

  Tutor
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  Canadian Biosystems

  Sept 2014 - Apr 2015

  Lab Technologist
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  FREDsense Technologies

  May 2015 - Sept 2018

  FREDsense is a young startup that specializes in making portable biosensors for water quality tests.- Started and led the software development from the start all the way to product launch- Wrote a Java program that runs on a Raspberry Pi and controls the company's IoT product- Developed algorithms to convert raw sensor readings into meaningful results

  • Part-time Software Consultant

    Sept 2015 - Sept 2018

  • Researcher

    May 2015 - Sept 2015
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  Hootsuite

  Jan 2017 - Aug 2017

  Software Engineering intern

  - Refactored a Scala ETL Application to ingest data from two newly acquired companies- Solved the rate-limit problem of a third party API by breaking requests into multiple requests and handling them concurrently using Akka Actors- Created a Python tool for data cleaning prior to training models- Created machine learning models to tag messages with labels using scikit-learn framework- Helped with maintenance of data infrastructure including db migrations, extending monitoring capabilities (Sensu, SumoLogic), Scheduling jobs (Airflow), etc- Published a blog post: https://medium.com/hootsuite-engineering/5-technologies-we-have-used-at-hootsuite-to-build-a-flexible-distributed-data-pipeline-4e3fd8e649e0 Show less

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  The University of British Columbia

  Sept 2017 - Apr 2018

  Helped students with hands-on exercises focused on implementing and using data structures in C++ Guided students in coming up with efficient algorithms during office hours

  • TA for CPSC 221:

    Jan 2018 - Apr 2018

  • TA for CPSC 320: Intermediate Algorithm Design

    Sept 2017 - Dec 2017
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  Bench Accounting

  May 2018 - Sept 2019

  Software Engineer

  - Contributed to separating a piece of the monolithic application into its own microservice using the Strangler method- Contributed to a microservice that is quickly becoming the data source for multiple products in the company. It continuously ingests financial data from external APIs, applies the internal business logic, and serves data to front end and other microservices. Technologies used: Scala, Akka Streams, Slick, Akka HTTP, Mockito, ScalaTest, GraphQL, Swagger, Java, Python, PostgresSQL, IntelliJ, S3, Kubernetes Show less

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  Xealth

  Sept 2019 - Feb 2021

  Software Engineer
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  Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  Feb 2021 - now

  Amazon Comprehend AWS Glue

  • Software Development Engineer II

    Oct 2021 - now

  • Software Development Engineer II

    Feb 2021 - Oct 2021