Cloud Engineer (Big Data) at AWS,
ETL and ML - Head currently in the cloud ðŸ’
Graduated Computer Science (Honours Cum Laude) at University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Interested in big data, machine learning, data engineering and innovative problem solving,
Also teaching machines to learn to do cool stuff
My name is Zubair.
I'm a Cloud Enginner at AWS currently working in the Big Data domain, focusing on ETL and Machine Learning.
Graduated with Honours (Cum Laude) in Computer Science at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, interested in pursuing my MSc.
I am drawn towards technology and am fascinated by the possibilities Machine Learning/AI could bring to positively impact people and communities. Along with machine learning and data analysis, I find myself intrigued by how data underpins so much of our world, as well as how algorithms & models can learn from incredibly complex types of data to do novel & interesting things.
I would say I am a driven, ambitious individual who is a creative problem solver.
Some of my favourite hobbies include reading (especially fantasy and sci-fi), travelling, retro video games and photography.
February - November 2019 & June - November 2020
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Tutored students & assisted with marking undergrad courses including Machine Learning, Computer Graphics & Visualisation, Advanced Analysis of Algorithms, Operating Systems, Introduction to Algorithms & Programming and Introduction to Data Structures & Algorithms.
November 2016 - December 2016
Entelect Software, Johannesburg
Worked as an intern software developer, focusing on developing back-end logging and testing using the .Net MVC framework and SoapUI.
My self-assumed proficiency for various programming languages and frameworks, as well as certifications achieved. Expand to see more about specific frameworks and libraries in my skill stack
Achieved the following certifications:
2020 - 2021 (Not completed)
Was accepted/enrolled and awarded a University scholarship to do my MSc in Computer Science, but could not finish my studies due to Covid.
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
2019
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
2015 - 2018
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Some projects I've completed during university, and more
A simple artificial neural network with backpropagation was created for identifying simple hand gestures/poses in a video feed. For this project all the data used was manually created.
As part of an ongoing AICrowd challenge to identify snake species around the world, for a computer vision course. CNN models that were used for classification included ResNet, ResNeXt, VGG and DenseNet.
A dynamic hand/arm gesture recognition system for robot control or interfacing. I augmented the 20BN-Jester dataset with personally collected data. The inception cnn model was used & equipped with a Temporal Relation Network module to recognise gestures over short time periods. The demo uses a webcam and includes a real-time graph showing prediction accuracy.
A project where we used a Double Deep Q Network (DDQN) to train a reinforcement learning agent to play the Obstacle Tower Challenge game. The agent was trained over ~5 million steps and learned how to navigate the environment
This project was for my HPC course, where we parallelised several image segmentation algorithms using CUDA, OpenMP and MPI, and benchmarked them against their respective serial versions.
Click on the link above to go to my github and see more!
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