Mohammad Shameoni Niaei
Verified Expert in Engineering
Back-end Developer
Erzurum, Turkey
Toptal member since September 13, 2022
Mohammad is a back-end developer with a master's degree in astronomy and astrophysics. He is an expert in databases and object-relational mapping. His language of choice is Python, and he is well-versed in JavaScript and PHP. He created MYRaf, an astronomical image reduction and photometry software for IRAF, and delivered a module to estimate the cloudiness of the sky using image processing and ML. Mohammad excels in image processing and has worked in the higher education and government sectors.
Portfolio
Experience
- Python 3 - 15 years
- Image Processing - 15 years
- Django - 5 years
- JavaScript - 5 years
- Highcharts - 3 years
- Django Ninja - 3 years
- MediaPipe - 1 year
- You Only Look Once (YOLO) - 1 year
Preferred Environment
GNU, Python 3, Bootstrap 3+, JavaScript, PyCharm, Django, Astropy, NumPy, Matplotlib, Linux
The most amazing...
...tool I've built is DAG-CLD for cloud detection. It is a method that uses image processing and ML to detect clouds on images obtained from an all-sky camera.
Work Experience
Software Specialist
Atatürk University, Astrophysics Research and Application Center
- Created a web platform for an observatory where one can apply for and track the observation time. One can do astronomy-related calculations such as time and coordinates with the same system.
- Delivered a module to estimate the cloudiness of the sky using image processing and machine learning (SVM and CNN) and data obtained from an all-sky camera.
- Built a module using HDF data from meteorological satellites to estimate the condition of a given location. It included cloudiness, pollution (dust, smut, etc.), and wildfires.
- Designed a simulator to generate sky images for DAG's 4m class telescope. Generated images of known celestial objects with the parameters of an optical device, in this case, a telescope.
- Analyzed astronomical images using tools such as IRAF, Astropy, and SciPy as a software developer and astronomer. Strong image processing skills secured my job at Atatürk University.
- Created a module to operate a device called RSQM: Automatic Rotational Sky Quality Meter. By rotating four altitudinal fixed sky quality meters (using an electric motor) on azimuth, we mapped the whole sky of the observatory.
- Designed a system using Telegram bots for administration to track personnel, the health of astronomical and meteorological devices on remote sites, vehicles belonging to the research center, and more.
- Built web automation using Selenium to obtain data from older devices which does not support directly requesting or do not have API services.
- Completed both server-side and client-side programming and used various web technologies for data visualization.
Astronomer, Observer
Republic of Turkey, Presidency of Religious Affairs
- Calculated dawn and dust times using observations from a telescope and camera.
- Wrote a module to calculate down and dusk using Astropy, IRAF, and data obtained from observations.
- Discovered a slight difference between dusk and dawn times using empirical data versus theory data.
Experience
MYRaf
Vector 3D
https://github.com/mshemuni/V3DEducation
Master of Science Degree in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Atatürk University - Erzurum, Turkey
Bachelor's Degree in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Ankara University - Ankara, Turkey
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Astropy, NumPy, REST APIs, SQLAlchemy, OpenCV, Telegram Bot API, Pandas, Scikit-learn, SciPy, Matplotlib, jQuery, PyQt 5, Highcharts
Tools
PyCharm, Git, Microsoft Excel, GitHub, Scikit-image, You Only Look Once (YOLO), PyPI
Languages
Python 3, Python, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS
Frameworks
Bootstrap 3+, Django, Qt, Selenium, Django Ninja, MediaPipe, Flask
Paradigms
Unit Testing, Asynchronous Development, Automation
Platforms
Linux, Windows, LAMP, Webflow
Storage
MySQL, PostgreSQL
Other
Image Processing, Data Analysis, Graphical User Interface (GUI), Front-end, APIs, Chatbots, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Web Scraping, Scripting, Web Dashboards, Telegram Bots, Graphing, Data Scraping, Scraping, IRAF, Vectors, GNU
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