Hi, I'm Ali Zamani.
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Self-driven, quick starter, passionate ML Engineer with a curious mind who enjoys solving complex and challenging real-world problems.
About
🎓 Proud alum of Computer Science at the University of Alberta. 📚
🧩 Enthusiast for problem-solving and coding adventures. 🕵️♂️💻
🚀 Equipped with Python, Tensorflow, GCP, Azure ML, NLTK, MySQL, Power BI, Tableau, Django, and a sprinkle of C++. 🧰✨
👷♂️ 3+ years honing skills in Python, Data Science, and ML sorcery. 💪🔮
💡 Passionate about crafting AI solutions that tackle real-world challenges and positively impact millions. 🌍❤️
Ready to collaborate or chat about tech? Let's connect! 🤝🚀
- Languages: Python, C++, C, MATLAB, PHP, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, SQL
- NLP: NLTK, Spacy, Gensim, Hugging Face, Stanza
- Databases: MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, SQLite, PostgreSQL
- Libraries: Tensorflow, Pytorch, Keras, Sklearn, Numpy, OpenCV, Scipy, Pandas, React
- Frameworks: Rasa, Laravel, Django, Flask
- Tools: Azure ML Studio, Linux, Git, WordPress, Ns-3 simulator, Docker, NGINX, Bash
- Soft Skills: Communication, Teamwork, Leadership, Work Ethic, Time Management, Creativity
Experience
- Built a flight price prediction use case using time series forecasting. Deployed on Vertex AI with data from BigQuery, enabling data-driven pricing and integration with product features.
- Built a standardized ML pipeline for preprocessing, training, and online/offline deployment on Vertex AI, featuring modular design, feature store integration, versioning, and backfilling. Orchestrated the pipeline with a reusable Airflow DAG.
- Designed a scalable GenAI framework on GCP with CI/CD integration, featuring a robust Inference module with rate limiting, monitoring, parallel processing, and use-case-specific configuration, and a Validation module using LLM-as-a-Judge for automated evaluation and continuous quality feedback. Leveraged LangChain for orchestrating dynamic LLM workflows and integrating retrieval-augmented generation capabilities.
- Delivered a hotel review summarization use case combining sentiment analysis and summarization, with an algorithm to surface high-impact reviews. Achieved a 30\% conversion rate uplift through A/B testing.
- Tools: Python, GCP, Vertex AI, Git, GitHub, ML pipeline, Teamwork
- Implemented a LightGBM and XGBoost algorithm for predicting the permeability of rock core images with an accuracy of 94%, saving upwards of 10 million dollars for the client.
- Developed a Machine Learning pipeline from scratch on Azure and conducted error analysis to further improve the model performance.
- Conducted error analysis to analyze model performance.
- Prepared bi-weekly update and present it to the client.
- Tools: Python, OpenCV, Azure ML Studio, Git, GitHub, ML pipeline, Teamwork
- Built and implemented the back-end and front-end of the MIRA chatbot.
- Explored and compared different Recurrent Neural Network language models to detect the intent of a sentence and extract entities from it with an F1-score of 97% and 83%.
- Used various data augmentation techniques like back translation and synonym replacement to increase the amount of training data in the MIRA chatbot.
- Applied Sentiment Analysis techniques to MIRA Chabot to identify the sentiment of users’ responses and modify the chatbot’s responses according to detected sentiments.
- Developed a system to automatically report bugs to decrease the time needed for team members to identify and fix bugs/issues.
- Implemented different ways to visualize and send a daily report of MIRA chatbot statistics to team members.
- Trained and managed two undergraduate students in the MIRA chatbot team.
- Developed a service to automatically perform a set of unit tests daily on a product in development to decrease the time needed for team members to identify and fix bugs/issues.
- Tools: Python, Rasa Framework, Tensorflow, Keras, Teamwork
- Experience in leading a group by managing the technical part of CafeIot startup.
- Collaborated with team members utilizing version control systems such as Git to organize modifications and assign tasks.
- Tools: Python, Django, PHP, Laravel, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Leadership
Projects
An ML pipeline template to create a user-friendly utility to drastically speed up the development and implementation of a machine learning model for all sorts of various problems.
An application on Microsoft Azure for detecting burnout of a call center's agent
- Tools: Microsoft Azure Studio, Python, NLP
- Microsoft and AltaML Hackathon
- Developed an ML pipeline on Azure to detect burnout of a call center’s agent using a pre-trained transformer-based model (BERT).
Determining whether a sentence is sarcastic or non-sarcastic.
- Tools: Python, NLP
- Competed in a Kaggle competitions: Sarcasm Detection with an accuracy of 85+%.
Classifying news as fake and real.
- Tools: Python, NLP
- Competed in two Kaggle competitions: Fake Disaster News Classification, with an accuracy of 90+%.
Identifying sentences that do not make sense and explain why they do not.
Classify a given sentence to one of the four classes of publisher, performer, director, character.
Skills
Languages and Databases
Python
C++
C
PHP
JavaScript
HTML
CSS
MySQL
PostgreSQL
SQLite
Microsoft SQL Server
NLP
NLTK
Spacy
Gensim
Hugging Face
Libraries
Tensorflow
Pytorch
Keras
Sklearn
Numpy
OpenCV
Scipy
Pandas
React
Frameworks
Rasa
Laravel
Django
Flask
Tools
Azure ML Studio
Linux
Git
WordPress
Docker
NGINX
Bash
Visualizations
Tableau
Matplotlib
Seaborn
Plotly
Microsoft Power BI
Soft Skills
Communication
Teamwork
Leadership
Work Ethic
Time Management