Karim Kacper Alaa El-Din, Developer in London, United Kingdom
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Karim Kacper Alaa El-Din

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Python Developer

Location
London, United Kingdom
Toptal Member Since
August 1, 2022

Karim is a PhD candidate at the University of Oxford with a master's degree in physics from Imperial College London. Aside from his experience in research environments, Karim has worked as the CTO of a green tech app startup, where he combined his expertise in software development, data science, and interdisciplinary work to deliver a fully fleshed-out product. Karim is looking to apply his mathematical, analytical, and software development skills to projects with a real-world impact.

Data AnalysisMachine LearningData AnalyticsData VisualizationData ReportingWeb ScrapingPythonPython 3PandasTableauGoogle AnalyticsData MiningBig DataArtificial Intelligence (AI)Linux

Portfolio

Number Five House Ltd
Python, Web Scraping, Google Sheets API, Google Sheets
Imperial College London
Python 3, HPCC Systems, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, TensorFlow...
The Institute of Cancer Research
R, Python 3, Data Science, Genetics, Machine Learning, Data Analytics...

Experience

Python 3 - 7 yearsLinux - 6 yearsMachine Learning - 5 yearsApplied Mathematics - 4 yearsTensorFlow - 4 yearsData Science - 4 yearsFlutter - 3 yearsPyTorch - 2 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Linux, PyCharm, Poetry, Flutter, Python 3, C++17, Firebase, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Python, Jupyter Notebook, Pandas, Pytest, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Tableau, Web Scraping, Data Analysis, Machine Learning, Dart, Node.js, Selenium

The most amazing...

...software I've developed is a social sustainability app with the entire front and back end, pop-up notifications, consumption tracking, and user chats.

Work Experience

Senior Python Web Scraping Specialist

2022 - 2022
Number Five House Ltd
  • Developed and deployed a web scraping pipeline with Python and Selenium.
  • Collected profile and network data from a large online social media platform.
  • Performed ETL on the data. Used network analysis and machine learning to enrich collected information.
Technologies: Python, Web Scraping, Google Sheets API, Google Sheets

Undergraduate Researcher

2021 - 2022
Imperial College London
  • Built a TensorFlow machine learning pipeline using Python to predict the properties of high-energy X-ray pulses at ultrafast rates.
  • Deployed machine learning pipelines to the university's high-performance computing cluster using Secure Shell.
  • Developed simulations of quantum many-body physics in Python and devised a new measurement scheme to analyze simulations.
  • Used advanced statistics and machine learning, including restricted Boltzmann machine neural networks, to extract knowledge from our simulations.
  • Co-authored two papers currently in preparation, both applying machine learning to different physics regimes.
Technologies: Python 3, HPCC Systems, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Data Analytics, Data Visualization, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Python, APIs, Jupyter Notebook, Pandas, Pytest, Data Reporting, Statistical Modeling, Web Scraping, Data Analysis, Big Data, Google Sheets API, Google Sheets

Research Intern

2020 - 2020
The Institute of Cancer Research
  • Developed an unsupervised learning pipeline to analyze genetic risk factor pathways for brain tumors in adults.
  • Programmed and debugged R and Python to contribute to interdisciplinary research.
  • Implemented my pipeline on a high-performance computing cluster.
  • Updated the legacy code to use Python 3 instead of Python 2.
  • Performed tissue-specific analysis to find significant risk factors that would not be recognized as significant without accounting for tissue differences.
Technologies: R, Python 3, Data Science, Genetics, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Data Visualization, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Python, SQL, Jupyter Notebook, Pandas, Data Engineering, Pytest, Data Reporting, Statistical Modeling, Tableau, Data Mining, Data Analysis, Big Data, STATA, Google Sheets API, Google Sheets

Cross-platform Social Sustainability App

Created a full-stack cross-platform app with a Flutter front-end and TypeScript back-end, connected with a GraphQL API. I built the database on top of PostgreSQL, programmed the back end in TypeScript, and used Firebase for the real-time database, pop-up notifications, and user analytics. Additionally, I enhanced the analytics by using a custom asynchronous data pipeline, which performed k-nearest neighbor analysis to group users into different, dynamically set categories.

Webscraping Tutorials in Python

https://www.practiceprobs.com/problemsets/selenium-with-python/
A set of tutorials for beginner, over intermediate to advanced web scraping in Python using Selenium. The tutorials are written as little challenges, and solutions, as well as explanations, are provided. This project is still ongoing, and I am working on further tutorials to expand toward highly advanced web scraping problems.

Bayesian Analysis of Stock Market Data

Using Excel, I worked on a Bayesian approach that an investment company utilized to predict the likelihood of a recession occurring in the near future, given key market parameters and a decade-long history of market data. As this was just after COVID-19 was brought under control, this was a highly relevant subject, and the employer was more than happy with my work.

Languages

Python 3, Python, Dart, R, C++17, GraphQL, TypeScript, SQL, Markdown, JavaScript

Libraries/APIs

Pandas, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Node.js, NumPy, Google Sheets API

Tools

Google Analytics, Tableau, PyCharm, Firebase Analytics, Pytest, STATA, Google Sheets

Paradigms

Data Science, ETL

Platforms

Jupyter Notebook, Linux, Firebase, Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Other

Computational Physics, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Data Visualization, Data Reporting, Statistical Modeling, Web Scraping, Data Analysis, Physics Simulations, Applied Mathematics, Poetry, HPCC Systems, Mobile Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Mining, Big Data, Genetics, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), APIs, Data Engineering, ETL Tools, Business Analysis, Excel 365, Bayesian Statistics, Statistics

Frameworks

Flutter, Selenium, Scrapy

Storage

Google Cloud, Databases, PostgreSQL

2022 - 2022

Ph.D. in Progress in Atomic and Laser Physics

University of Oxford - Oxford, UK

2018 - 2022

Master's Degree in Physics with Theoretical Physics

Imperial College London - London, UK

MAY 2021 - MAY 2023

Azure Data Science Associate

Microsoft