Tamer Abdulazim
Verified Expert in Engineering
Machine Learning Developer
Tamer has over a decade of experience building large-scale production systems, including big data pipelines, machine learning models, and scalable serverless systems on AWS. He co-published an IEEE paper discussing his work combining embedded hardware and an EEG device to control a wheelchair with brain concentration. Tamer enjoys sharing his knowledge by mentoring engineers and taking on new client projects.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Serverless, Flink, Akka, Scala, Debian
The most amazing...
...project I have built was a scalable, real-time recommender system that served over 7000 requests per second with 50 milliseconds latency SLA.
Work Experience
CTO and Principal Engineer
Bitspire, Inc.
- Built big data pipelines on top of using modern, scalable technologies.
- Built serverless architecture for a service layer.
- Trained and deployed machine learning prediction models.
- Developed an ETL process for analytics served with Redshift and Periscope.
- Mentored and trained junior and senior software and data engineers.
Ph. D. Candidate, Research Assistant
University of Toronto
- Developed a smart Android app to collect personal travel data, enable vehicle telematics, and provide personalized traveler information.
- Built an integration between a real traffic light controller and an embedded computer that runs a reinforcement learning control algorithm.
- Built a prototype implementation for a customized AR. Drone 2.0 quad-copter by adding a microcontroller, GPS, and RF receiver to extend the AR. Drone functionality, and allow further autonomous navigation implementation.
- Re-worked a generic Java implementation with a GUI configuration tool to run GA optimization on an Apache Ignite compute grid.
Platform Engineer
PayTM Labs
- Developed the real-time recommender system serving layer.
- Oversaw the full CI/CD infrastructure automation with AWS autoscaling.
- Enabled security audit internal software.
Data Engineer and Data Scientist
LoyaltyOne
- Developed real-time loyalty points issuance with dynamic rules.
- Created a scalable stream simulator to convert batch logs to the real-time event stream.
Experience
Real-time Recommender System
Mind over Motor
http://wearcam.org/gem2019.pdfI published an IEEE paper with Profesor Steve Mann (the father of wearable computing).
Skills
Languages
Java 8, GraphQL, Scala, Python, HTML, SQL, Java, Rust, Go, JavaScript, Snowflake
Frameworks
Akka, Spark, Django, Serverless Framework
Tools
Istio, AWS ELB, Gradle, Git, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Jenkins, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Apache Airflow, Terraform, AWS Glue, AWS SDK, Flink, Apache Maven, Apache NiFi
Paradigms
Microservices, Microservices Architecture, DevOps, Functional Programming, Reactive Programming, Serverless Architecture, ETL, Web Architecture
Platforms
Apache Kafka, AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Arduino, Kubernetes, Raspberry Pi, Debian
Storage
Data Pipelines, Redshift, PostgreSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, Databases, Data Lakes, MySQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), PostGIS
Other
Big Data, Architecture, AWS DevOps, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Solution Architect, AWS Certified Developer, Analytics, Data Analysis, Big Data Architecture, Stream Processing, Asynchronous Data Streams, Data Architecture, Middleware, Architectural Design, Architectural Modeling, Statistics, Streaming, Gatsby, Data Warehouse Design, Amazon Kinesis, Machine Learning, ESP32, Technical Training, Mentorship & Coaching, Data Engineering, Streaming Data, Apache Pulsar, Amazon API Gateway, Data Warehousing, Data Modeling, Serverless, ETL Tools, ETL Development, Reactive Streams, Liferay, Robotics
Libraries/APIs
Stripe, Spark ML, PySpark, Jenkins Pipeline, Node.js
Industry Expertise
Telecommunications
Education
Ph.D in Engineering
University of Toronto - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Master's Degree in Computer Science
Cairo University - Cairo, Egypt
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Cairo University - Cairo
Certifications
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
AWS
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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