Taariq February

Experience

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  MTN

  Jan 2016 - Nov 2016

  •Planning/Managing: Approval and prioritisation of fibre and IP network roll out. •Data : Using data to forecast load to prioritise fibre and network nodes for FTTS (fibre to the site) aggregation and access fibre and FTTH (fibre to the home).•Network design: Assist with network design and capacity alleviation in regions, focusing on backhaul aggregation solutions to the core network. •Review and approve plans for fibre routes and network infrastructure rollout.•Analyse data for network planning using Excel.

  • Transmission Planning Engineer

    Jun 2016 - Nov 2016

  • Graduate: Transmission Planning Engineer

    Jan 2016 - May 2016
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  Space Advisory Company

  Nov 2016 - Dec 2018

  Research and Development: • Research Software Defined Radio(SDR) for small satellite. • Develop POC for satellite testing with commercial of the shelf(COTS) parts. Environmental testing: • Develop test software in C# to execute in various test environments; EMC, TID, vibration, TVAC, and compile test reports. • Build and assemble satellite components for testing and final product.Software engineering: • Digital signal processing(DSP): Simulate SDR to design radio components(filters, modulators) in Matlab and Python. • VHDL: Build the DSP components in VHDL on FPGA, testing with real generated signal. • C: Write controller logic to manage, radio, storage, signal processing on Zync SoC alongside the FPGA. Show less

  • Data Engineer

    Aug 2018 - Dec 2018

  • Electronic Engineer(Software Defined Radio)

    Nov 2016 - Jul 2018
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  Spatialedge

  Jan 2019 - now

  • Design and package the ETL framework to support the development life cycle of 20 Data Scientists, 4 Data Analysts and 8 Machine Learning Engineers.• Build CICD pipelines in Gitlab CI to integrate with various applications, Nexus, Airflow, Openshift, Docker and ElasticSearch.• Deploy and maintain various tools, Fluent-bit, Fuentd, Grafana, Nginx, Gitlab runners, Flink, Spark, MLflow, Prometheus on Openshift with Helm charts.• Migrate systems, packages, tools between various environments and versions for AWS, Cloudera, Openshift, Spark, Gitlab.• Maintain and support software running 100 various task which include models, ingestion and aggregations.• Deploy and configure various resources on AWS which includes Elasticsearch, EKS, EMR, MLflow.• Design solutions in banking environment to solve machine learning problems. Show less • Architecture and design: Design reusable frameworks to address developer and business problems.• Built a simple ETL framework to be used by 4 MLE’s to address some of the key pains in team, speed, flexibility, reusability.• Improve performance of ML and aggregations by tuning spark resources and developing code solutions.• Implement orchestration, build and deployment pipelines using Openshift(Kubernetes) and Gitlab CI.• Implement geospatial functionality to solve performance issues, initially using a GeoPandas and thereafterdistributed and scalable solution with Apache Sedona.• Team lead for 4 MLE's.• Support and Monitoring of ETL pipelines. Show less

  • Senior Software and Machine Learning Engineer

    Nov 2021 - now

  • Software and Machine Learning Engineer

    Jan 2019 - Oct 2021