Mefta Sadat
Mefta Sadat
Software Engineer with experience in building AI/Machine Learning Systems, Toronto CA

About Me


I have over 3 years of experience as a software engineer, and have worked at both small startup and large organization. I see myself as a software developer with a penchant for building AI/Machine Learning based software. In addition, I have expertise in building scalable backend services (API services, Serverless computing).

I love building things and solving challenges/problems. My main focus in the past three years have been building recommendation and personalization systems.

Highlights

  • Built a scalable Hybrid Recommendation System in a multi-tenant environment to serve millions of consumers across various clients in Europe and North America.
  • Created data pipelines using AWS Data Pipelines that aggregates and scores large volume of data using Spark on AWS EMR resulted in faster computation than previous SQL based system.
  • Achieved Masters degree (MSc in Computer Science) from Ryerson University and got nominated for the Governor General Award

Interests


My personal interests include:

  • Machine learning. Following machine learning/AI trends/algos for a while and I have been using some in my work
  • Hobbies. When I take a break from computer science, I like to travel, hike or take photographs.

Recent Projects

  • similar-items-api: A python RESTful API to compute similarity between items from textual metadata.

Other Things

  • I had some teaching experience mentoring students (class of 50) on software engineering and big data tools.

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