Zviad Nozadze, Developer in Tbilisi, Georgia
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Zviad Nozadze

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Software Developer

Location
Tbilisi, Georgia
Toptal Member Since
February 13, 2020

Zviad is an accomplished data scientist and machine learning engineer. He specializes in transfer learning, deep learning, speech recognition, and natural language processing. Zviad has won multiple hackathons for brilliant work in record time, and his strong mathematics and software engineering background makes him an asset to complex projects.

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Git, Linux

The most amazing...

...project I've worked on is an automatic speech recognition model that converts sign language to text.

Work Experience

Software Engineer

2021 - 2022
Microsoft
  • Worked on the Bing search engine as a member of the core team. Implemented, maintained, and improved the speed of multiple big data processing pipelines.
  • Helped new team members to ramp up quickly; guided them and wrote documentation for easy onboarding.
  • Improved precision and speed of data pipelines. Ran experiments and reduced costs.
Technologies: Distributed Systems, Data Engineering

Winner in Data Science Hackathon "DataThon"

First place winner.
Processed data and built an RNN-based model in 36 hours. This was based on clients' past transactions and behavior. The model identified individuals who may use a credit card, therefore increasing the profit of the bank. This was implemented using PyTorch.

Winner in "Big Data Hackathon"

Third place winner.
Converted the Georgian sign language to a text translator. I led the machine learning team, gathered, processed, and labeled data, and built the model that translates Georgian sign language to text in a live regime using PyTorch and OpenCV.

Languages

C, C++, Python, Java, SQL, Lisp, Scheme, JavaScript

Libraries/APIs

PyTorch, Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, OpenCV, Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK), Keras, SciPy, Fast.ai, TensorFlow

Paradigms

Test-driven Development (TDD), Object-oriented Programming (OOP)

Platforms

Jupyter Notebook, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Windows

Other

Agile Data Science, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning, Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), Statistics, Mathematics, Data Engineering, Computer Vision, Speech to Text, Text to Speech (TTS), Distributed Systems, Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Tools

Git, Amazon SageMaker, MATLAB

Storage

MySQL, PL/SQL

2022 - 2023

Master's Degree in Software Engineering

Ilia State University - Tbilisi, Georgia

2017 - 2020

Coursework in Mathematics and Computer Science

Free University of Tbilisi - Tbilisi, Georgia

DECEMBER 2019 - PRESENT

AWS Fundamentals

Coursera

AUGUST 2019 - PRESENT

Deep Learning Specialization

deeplearning.ai

JULY 2019 - PRESENT

Machine Learning

Stanford University via Coursera

FEBRUARY 2018 - PRESENT

Winter School on Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science

IBSU (International Black Sea University)

AUGUST 2015 - PRESENT

English Language Courses

Cyprus International University

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