Hi, I'm Aser Atawya

I’m currently looking for full-time software engineering internships in the fall (September - December) and full-time positions with start date in early 2025.
This Summer, I will be doing tiny Machine Learning research at Autonomous Robotics and Complex Systems Lab at Pomona College, working on quantizing deep neural networks and deploying them on edge devices!
Last semester, I co-developed a 5000+ Lines-of-Code, 21-class music sharing web app that creates real-time, collaborative music sessions using Spotify web API. Check out the project repo!
Last year, I designed a complete convolutional neural network data pipeline to simulate human driving in a virtual environment with the help of Udacity self-driving car simulator. Check out the project repo!
Also, I did Google Summer of Code 2023 for OpenCV, where I merged 3 pull requests, adding Recurrent All-pairs Field Transforms (RAFT) DNN optical flow model to OpenCV model zoo. Also, I optimized visualization module and provided scripts for evaluation and examples in C++ and Python. Check out the project summary!

Coursework: Managing Complex Software Systems, Software Engineering, Neural Networks, Machine Learning Systems, Big Data, Algorithms, Data Structures, Computer Systems, Digital Elec. & Comp. Engineering, Computational Statistics, Statistical Theory, Probability, Combinatorics, and Linear Algebra
Fellowships: Google Computer Science Research Mentorship Program (CSRMP) Scholar
Programming Languages: Python, C++, C, Java, R, SQL (MySQL and Postgres), Verilog, Haskell
Libraries: TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, ONNX, OpenCV, scikit-learn, Natural Language Toolkit, pandas, NumPy
Frameworks: Flask, Tomcat, Ollama, Scrum, REST API, Junit, CUDA
DevOps and Infrastructure: Git, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Linux, Conda, New Relic, PagerDuty

Spotify for Parties: Music Sharing Web App | Agile, Python, Spotify API, Node.js, Flask, Threads January – May 2024

Co-developed 5000+ Lines-of-Code, 21-class Spotify web app that creates real-time, collaborative music sessions
Created and unit-tested classes that automate multi-threaded launch of backend and frontend components, verification of system prerequisites, authentication of Spotify Account using API, and installation of dependencies
Led Agile process & SWE best practices, conducting requirements elicitation and developing scalable architecture

FakeFlickr | DevOps, Amazon Web Services, Linux, Tomcat, New Relic, PagerDuty, PostgreSQL January – April 2024

Set up AWS infrastructure, PSQL, and SSL certificate to host mock Flickr Tomcat web app on HTTPS port
Achieved 90%+ uptime after setting up New Relic and PagerDuty for system monitoring and real-time alerting
Handled 1000 syntactic users & 10000 RPM with 0 errors after scaling service using AWS Load Balancer, AWS Relational Database Service, AWS Elastic File System, and 3 EC-2 Linux instances

Optimized computational efficiency of motion detection in OpenCV, library downloaded 18 million times
Added RAFT transformer optical flow model, visualization module, evaluation scripts, & demo after merging 3 pull requests
Implemented and validated ONNX GatherElements matrix operator in OpenCV DNN module
Researched neural network optical flow models, defining evaluation metrics and benchmarking models on datasets

Autonomous-Driving Neural Network project | Keras, OpenCV, TensorFlow, CUDA, Socket.IO April 2023

Developed convolutional neural network to autonomously steer cars in real-time on Udacity self-driving simulator
Validated model through real-time deployment and benchmarking loss in steering angle against ResNet models
Engineered end-to-end data pipeline from data collection using simulator, data augmentation to tackle imbalance and noise, and image pre-processing to model training with CUDA, fine-tuning, deployment, and validation

Software Engineer, Claremont, California

tm41m via Pomona Artificial Intelligence (P-ai) February – April 2024

Developed large language model backend of semantic translator to create data analytics using natural language
Built SQLCoder LLM infrastructure with Docker, Python database parsers, and database initialization seed script
Fine-tuned and deployed SQLCoder LLM using Ollama to convert natural language prompts into SQL queries

Software Quality Assurance, Claremont, California

Pomona College IT Services February – May 2024

Improved system reliability by executing 500+ test cases on Sakai Learning Management Software
Built Python internal tool to convert Box Notes to HTML, streamlining operations and increasing efficiency

Machine Learning Researcher and ThinkSwiss Research Scholar, Lausanne, Switzerland

University of Lausanne Beucler Lab for Data-Driven Atmospheric & Water Dynamics June – August 2023

Designed random forest wildfire susceptibility maps with 89.9% accuracy and perfomred feature selection analysis
Visualized and identified 4 wildfire patterns, using self-organizing neural network and K-means clustering
Engineered 12 new features from spatio-temporal wildfire data and performed multivariate data imputation

Data Analyst, Claremont, California

Avvo February – May 2023

Analyzed 5 Million rows of user data to uncover customer overlap across competitors and trends in client retention
Segmented overlapping clients, visualizing features and providing granular view of user behaviors to marketing
Implemented advanced text matching algorithms to overcome discrepancies in data and varied string formatting

Software Project Manager, Claremont, California

P-ai at the Claremont Colleges January – May 2023

Led 7 college students to develop AI product that provides personalized college recommendations to high school students
Designed emotion detection module to visualize, classify, and extract emotions from college reviews textual data
Managed development of word-vector clustering model to analyze qualitative factors, like college campus culture

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