Kevin Dewald
Verified Expert in Engineering
Big Data Developer
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Toptal member since April 22, 2019
Kevin has been involved in projects with all sorts of technologies, and he takes pride in his capacity to design and implement complex systems as well as his passion for teaching and helping others achieve their full potential.
Portfolio
Experience
- Linux - 6 years
- C - 6 years
- Big Data - 3 years
- Python - 3 years
- PySpark - 2 years
- Django - 1 year
- Docker - 1 year
- Data Engineering - 1 year
Availability
Preferred Environment
Git, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Linux
The most amazing...
...thing I've designed is an algorithm that could recognize muscle movement based on the electrical signals measured from the skin.
Work Experience
Co-founder
Spectro - Location Intelligence
- Designed and developed a distributed IoT sensor infrastructure with self-organizing and self-healing capabilities, with each sensor producing around 80 megabytes of raw data per day.
- Focused the hardware and firmware design to reduce operational complexity, allowing for large deploys with minimum human overhead.
- Managed a team of two data scientists in their daily tasks and algorithm research efforts.
- Developed internal tools for the data science team to reduce cloud execution costs.
- Worked on the productive implementation of algorithms designed by the data science team.
- Wrote software to help automate internal accounting processes.
Project Engineer
Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires
- Developed radar data acquisition software and pulse deinterleaving techniques with statistical inference.
Co-founder
Nerve Wearables
- Designed and developed real time algorithm of electromyography (EMG) signal denoising.
- Designed and developed gesture recognition software based on EMG and absolute orientation data.
- Implemented the gesture recognition functionality into our two prototype wearables by Bluetooth Low Energy custom service implementations based on the Nordic NRF51822 chipset.
Software Developer
Oracle
- Worked on Oracle's Business Process Management (BPM) Suite as an engineering intern in the development of the BPM Composer application, introducing some new features and bug fixing.
Experience
Gesture Recognition Demonstration
https://youtu.be/MCgSirQjpL8Education
Master's Degree in Strategic and Technological Direction
Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires - Buenos Aires
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering
Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires - Buenos Aires
Certifications
Certificate of Proficiency in English
University of Cambridge
Skills
Libraries/APIs
PySpark, Pandas
Tools
Altium Designer (PCAD), Git, MATLAB, Pytest, Microsoft Power BI
Platforms
Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EC2, Docker, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
Languages
Python, C, C++, Flash ActionScript, JavaScript, Java, HTML, CSS
Frameworks
Django, ADF
Paradigms
Agile Workflow
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
Other
Data Science, Data Engineering, Data Architecture, Big Data, ESP8266, Internet of Things (IoT)
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