About

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Hi there — thanks for checking out my portfolio! I'm (probably) in my third year of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo — unless it's the future and I’ve forgotten to update this. I started my academic journey by studying mathematical olympiads and earned a silver medal in the National Mathematics Olympiad. Ever since, I’ve been passionate about anything that involves deep, challenging math.

Since coming to Waterloo, I’ve explored a variety of areas in software engineering. Most recently, I worked as a Compiler Engineer at Huawei, where I built an automated software cache compiler pass — reducing memory usage with minimal performance loss.

These days, everything seems to be about AI, and I’ve been involved in it as well. I got started at Silverberry, a small but amazing healthcare startup where we explored early cutting-edge AI technologies to support diabetic patients. We were super lucky to publish a paper on the challenges we faced — feel free to check it out!

On the research side, I’m currently working as an undergraduate research assistant with Dr. Frea Shi. We're analyzing how visual language models understand natural language by diving deep into their attention maps.

I also worked at Questrade Financial Group as a Software Engineer, where I automated parts of their MLOps pipeline and helped reduce inference costs through smarter management and access control.

But enough about me — I’d love to hear about you and what you’re working on. Feel free to connect with me via email or LinkedIn!

Interests

Machine Learning

Statistics

Algorithms

Database

Health Tech

Research

Cloud

Infrastructure

Resume

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Skills

Languages

  • C
  • HTML/CSS
  • C++
  • Java
  • Bash
  • Python
  • GoLang
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • SQL

Frameworks

  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • React
  • PySpark
  • Pandas
  • Spark

Tools

  • Azure
  • Git
  • Docker
  • Databricks
  • Snowflake
  • Kubernetes

Education

Candidate for Bachelor with Honours - Computer Science

2023 - 2028

University of Waterloo, Waterloo-ON

  • Recipient of President's Scholarship for academic excellence

  • Member of Dean's Honor list for maianting GPA of 4.0

  • International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) participant

Professional Experience

Technical Project Lead

May 2022 - Aug 2022

WEA | Microsoft – Azure & Artificial Intelligence - Remote

  • Researched, implemented, and trained Fraud detection machine learning model affecting more than 500,000 users
  • Constructed pipeline components to normalize data, train, score and evaluate model by Azure Machine Learning SDK for Python
  • Optimized budgeting costs by 23% through load reduction in CPU, scheduling Virtual Machine and analyzing availability zones
  • Prototyped KNN model through visualizing the results of +56,000 transactions testing by confusion matrix with 98% accuracy

Software Collaborator

Sep 2022 - Present

Waterloo Rocketry – Waterloo, ON

  • Implementing Python numerical computation script by TDD to measure the physical and thermodynamical performance of the engine
  • Tested and debugged embedded code for data acquisition using an open-source Python library

Bilingual Math & Science Tutor

May 2022 - Present

PAPER - Remote

  • Devoted customized methodology to engage with students and help them develop their skills by critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions
  • Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed by contributing knowledge and support to the tutor team

Portfolio

My Works

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Tiler The Runner

App

Fire Away

LED Remote Controller

App

Hydrometric Data Visualizer

Sign Language Translator

Mind Pop

Contact

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Email Me

ialenabi@uwaterloo.ca

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