Ali Honarmand

Ali Honarmand

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    SDEII at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  • Education

    • The University of British Columbia

      2015 - 2018
      Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science 92%
    • University of Calgary

      2010 - 2014
      Bachelor's degree Biological Sciences
  • Experience

    • Calgary Tutoring Centre

      Sept 2011 - Jun 2012
      Tutor
    • Canadian Biosystems

      Sept 2014 - Apr 2015
      Lab Technologist
    • 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
    • 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

    • 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
    • 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

    • Xealth

      Sept 2019 - Feb 2021
      Software Engineer
    • 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
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • AWS Certified Developer – Associate

      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      May 2020
      View certificate certificate
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Interpreter for newcomer refugees

      Issued by Calgary Catholic Immigration Society on Jul 2011
      Calgary Catholic Immigration SocietyAssociated with Ali Honarmand
    • First Aid Responder

      Issued by St. John Ambulance on Jul 2012
      St. John AmbulanceAssociated with Ali Honarmand