Abdullah Mohamed

Abdullah Mohamed

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    • Hi There!

    I excel at bringing computer & software ideas into reality.

    From full-stack web apps, Android apps, to machine learning applications in IoT devices and much more.

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    Where I've Worked

    Amazon

    Toronto, ON
    Jan 2024 - Present

    Software Dev Engineer I

    • Currently working in the Amazon Ads org on the Unity Campaign Manager (UCM) software

    Amazon

    Toronto, ON
    June 2022 - Aug 2022

    Software Developer Engineer Intern

    • Developed, tested, and deployed full-stack, internationalized features (22 countries) whilst leveraging Java, React (Typescript, Javascript, Redux, Jest) for the Advertising Console product within the Amazon Ads org
    • Spearheaded and delivered key features pertaining to a VP goal for about 90, 000 unique advertisers (per month) and 250, 000 total advertisers (per month)
    • Devised technical strategies by diagnosing architectural software approaches while collaborating closely with key stakeholders, estimating effort & work for features, and executing task planning to exactitude
    • Constructed a QuickSight dashboard for business intelligence analysis & improved operational excellence for internal UI library by approximately 75%

    IBM

    Toronto, ON
    May 2021 - June 2022

    Software Developer Intern

    • Drove implementation of Process Admin Console of IBM Business Process Manager software from a legacy web application in a scrum environment
    • Refactored, designed and developed 10+ Full-Stack pages in React with Typescript (ES6+), CSS, Redux, IBM’s Carbon Design System from JSP, GWT pages written in Java
    • Developed RESTful APIs through the OpenAPI Specification and refactored Java EE backend logic, as well as composed DB2 SQL queries
    • Implemented i18n (internationalization) as well as IBM standardized accessibility requirements within the SPA
    • Utilized Jira, Git, Jenkins, JFrog Artifactory and IBM RTC to organize tasks through functional needs and manage CI/CD pipelines
    • Investigated and produced fixes for defects and bugs within the IBM Business Process Manager software

    Toronto Metropolitan University

    Toronto, ON
    May 2023 - Aug 2023

    Research Assistant

    • Spearheaded the development of VR software within Unity3D (C#) using the HP Reverb G2 headset with the Tobii SDK, XR Interaction Toolkit, Windows Mixed Reality Portal for a myriad of medical research/hospital/paediatric use cases including eye tracking, heatmap generation, pupil diameter, cognitive load, heart rate, and much more
    • Explored and implemented ML (1D-CNN) model deployment (Edge AI) onto Unity3D with C# on several OS (Android, etc.) via PyTorch/ONNX model conversion, saving 70% of budget on cloud computation
    • Trained Photoplethysmography (PPG) signal 1D-CNN model for stress classification from DEAP dataset using data augmentation, hyper-parameter optimization, batch normalization & dropout methods to achieving 82% training accuracy
    • Collaborated with Director/Supervisor Naimul Khan at TMU Multimedia lab, post-doctorate, and several RA constituents for in-game emotion recognition for therapeutic VR games

    Innovation Boost Zone - Aetava

    Toronto, ON
    Sep 2022 - Dec 2022

    Frontend Developer

    • Developed and integrated a custom-made mood board plugin for a WordPress application
    • Implemented a React + Canvas app using Javascript & HTML/CSS, utilizing the WooCommerce API

    Helium Aero

    Toronto, ON
    Mar 2021 - Jul 2021

    Android Application Developer

    • Developed an Android application (Java) that interfaces with drones from scratch based off of Figma prototype
    • Utilized Java & XML to build Android application along with a Mavlink Java library to communicate between drone
    • Employed UDP communication between simulated drone and Android devices to send and receive Mavlink packets

    Lightening Group LLC.

    Remote
    Sep 2020 - Dec 2020

    Frontend Developer

    • Developed a frontend using React paired with the Next.js framework, Typescript, Tailwind CSS to format components, as well as GraphQL to communicate with the backend
    • Worked with a client geared toward launching a pharmaceutical web application, and collaborated with a team of developers through Git
    • Utilized Cypress to conduct E2E testing to ensure bugs weren’t present in codebase as well as ensure seamless delivery

    Toronto Metropolitan University

    Toronto, ON
    Jun 2020 - Aug 2020

    Undergraduate Research Assistant

    • Researched and compared different MQTT Mosquitto Clustering implementations based on latency and design aspects
    • Analysed 1000+ lines of code written in C to document structure and components of clusters
    • Conducted localized broker testing & assisted with configuration & deployment of MQTT Clusters into the cloud

    Balancever

    Toronto, ON
    May 2020 - Aug 2020

    Android Developer

    • Spearheaded a Full-stack Android (Java, XML, Gradle) application from scratch in an Agile environment; utilizing Git to coordinate with other developers
    • Instituted backend with Firebase Auth (3rd Party OAuth2) & Realtime Database; integrating several APIs (ie. GCP)
    • Constructed several algorithms to create a custom android calendar and sort events

    Projects

    SmartFridgeAddOn

    IoT Embedded device + Machine Learning + Web App

    My Computer Engineering undergraduate capstone project (spanning over two semesters). Our objective was to design an add-on package for existing fridges through an easy to install hardware rig coupled with an intelligent cloud-based analysis software that could turn any fridge into a 'smart' one.

    Python

    PyTorch

    YOLOv7

    Roboflow

    Flask

    Luxonis SDK

    Bash scripts

    Raspbian

    Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W

    Oak-D-Lite

    Google Colab

    React

    CSS

    Firebase Auth

    Firebase Cloudstore DB

    Jira

    DAO Blockchain DApp

    Full Stack Blockchain Decentralized Application

    A decentralized application for a DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) that allows ETH blockchain users to create and vote for customized elections/proposals. These proposals can be customized with augmented voting mechanisms such as Quadratic Voting and a linear time decay.

    React

    Solidity

    Javascript

    Truffle

    Web3.js

    Tailwindcss

    Ganache

    Metamask

    IPFS

    SmoothieMakersClub

    Full Stack Web Application

    A Progressive Web Application that brings all Smoothie Makers alike to come together, create healthy & nutritious recipes, and share them with each other.

    Java

    Python

    Spring Boot

    MySQL

    Javascript

    CSS

    HTML

    Spring Data JPA

    AWS Elastic Beanstalk

    AWS RDS

    BeautifulSoup4

    Selenium

    Vaadin

    OAuth2.0

    MemoryGo

    Cross-Platform Mobile Application

    MemoryGo is a flashcard tool that lets you study without realization while you play games, surf the internet, watch a video, chat with friends or any other task.

    Dart

    Java (Android)

    XML

    SQL (SQLite)

    Gradle

    Cooking Recipe Suggestion Web App

    Full Stack Web Application

    With 1930 ingredients and 1489 recipes, Cook.io is a web application that provides cooking recipes to users based on the ingredients they input.

    Javascript

    Express.

    React

    MaterialUI

    Python

    Redis (caching)

    Firebase Auth

    Firebase Cloud Firestore

    Jira

    Figma

    Livestream App

    Android Mobile Application

    A mobile app that allows the user to either broadcast their own stream and/or find and join streams happening around them through a google maps populated with a series of markers that indicate the myriad of logged in users that might or might not be streaming.

    Kotlin

    XML

    Room

    Retrofit

    OkHttp3

    Dagger

    GCP

    Livestream Backend

    RESTful API Backend

    A backend for a livestreaming client application that consumes it. This backend's capabilities ranges from JWT user authentication, to being able to manage the MongoDB database that it's connected to.

    Java

    Spring (Boot, Security, Web, Reactive MongoDB)

    MongoDB

    JWT

    NGINX

    RTMP

    Docker (Compose)

    Torrent Clone

    P2P CLI application

    A P2P application (created in C) that allows peers to share and download content through an index server via UDP and TCP communication. (Complete technical description on github)

    C

    UDP

    TCP

    GCC

    Makefile


    Technologies

    Here are the technologies that I've worked with!

    • Front-End

      React
      Vaadin

    • Back-End

      The Spring Framework
      J2EE

    • Databases

      MySQL
      SQLite
      Firebase Real-Time Database
      MongoDB

    • Others

      Android
      Flutter


    About me

    Based out of Toronto, Ontario.

    🎓 Currently working as a Software Dev Engineer I at Amazon whilst also pursuing a Master's of Engineering Part Time from the Electrical and Computing Engineering (ECE) Department at the University of Toronto St. George. I've previously completed a Bachelor's of Engineering focused in Computer Engineering (specializing in the Software concentration) from Toronto Metropolitan University.

    ☕️ A strong passion for (Java) Full-Stack, Android/Flutter application development, backend server development, with several projects completed.

    💻 Skilled in Java, Python, Kotlin, Javascript (Typescript), and have worked with frameworks/libraries such as React, the Spring framework, PyTorch, the Android ecosystem (ie. BLE, Room, Dagger), Docker, and much much more.

    📚 Perks: A propensity to take initiatives, incredibly motivated, highly organized (detail-oriented) and a quick learner.

    My interests include:
    - Artificial Intelligence/ML applications
    - Distributed Systems
    - Embedded Systems engineering
    - Virtual/Augmented Reality
    - Overall developer/process optimization/automation strategies

    Major Milestones

      Sept, 2018

      Started Computer Engineering B. Eng at Toronto Metropolitan University

      May, 2021

      Started IBM SWE internship

      May, 2022

      Ended IBM SWE internship

      Aug, 2023

      Completed Amazon internship

      May, 2023

      Graduated with a Computer Engineering (B. Eng) degree from Toronto Metropolitan University

      Sep, 2023

      Started MEng at UofT

      January, 2024

      SDE 1 at Amazon

    Innovating one project at a time