Sheece Gardezi, Software Developer in Canberra, Australia
Sheece Gardezi

Software Developer in Canberra, Australia

I have 4 years of industrial experience in software engineer. I completed my MSc in Artificial Intelligence from Australian National University (ANU). I have delivered business solutions ranging from full-stack systems with the web and desktop apps, microservices, to external integrations. I co-founded an international Dj marketing agency and two start-ups in field of computer vision. I regularly release python packages and contribute to other open-source projects, https://github.com/sheecegardezi.

Portfolio

  • Geoscience Australia
    Python, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, AWS...
  • Dixen Adviosery
    C#, APS.Net, Angular 2, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL...
  • ANU
    Machine Learning, AI, Computer Vision, Python, PyTouch, Linux...
  • CSIRO
    PHP, JavaScript, NLP, Java, Apache Server, Linux...

Experience

Availability

        Full-time

The most amazing...

...system I've built can identify urban feature (buildings) from satellite images.

Experience

  • Scientific Software Engineer

    2020 - current
    Geoscience Australia
    • Completed work for the federal government department, Geoscience Australia.
    Technologies: Python, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, AWS, Docker
  • Software Engineer

    2020 - 2020
    Quantum Brilliance
  • Contract Software Engineer

    2018 - 2020
    Geoscience Australia
    • Completed work for the federal government department, Geoscience Australia.
    Technologies: Python, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, AWS, Docker
  • Software Engineer

    2019 - 2019
    Dixon Advisory
    • Developed visualization for Research Report Management Portal
    • Developed databases APIs on: SQLServer; stored procedures, functions, triggers.
    • Design and development of technical solutions for a large production environment
    Technologies: C#, APS.Net, Angular 2, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL
  • Researcher

    2017 - 2017
    The Australian National University
    • Development of Smart Car Parking System to visualize free car parking spaces in real time.
    • Created mobile app to show the free spaces in google maps.
    • Created and Standardized a data set of more than 70,000 pictures of parking lot.
    • Used state of art deep learning techniques to classify free and occupied parking spots using keras python frame work.
    • Created corn job on linux to update database server and extract live images.
    Technologies: Machine Learning, AI, Computer Vision, Python, PyTouch, Linux
  • Researcher

    2016 - 2016
    CSIRO
    • Development of web based system to visualize and Explore Digital Libraries.
    • Created Interactive Visitation in D3 for web based UI
    • Did a user study to evaluate the usability of system
    • Clustered 25000 Document of different kinds
    • Used Java based lucen; solr api to create retrieval system for non-rational database of textual data
    Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, NLP, Java, Apache Server, Linux
  • Software Engineer

    2014 - 2015
    Telenor
    • Maintained projects dashboard and details of activities and status
    • Responsible for preparing technical and business requirements document on projects assigned
    • Interaction with cross functional teams with Telenor and bank
    • Approvals from relevant stakeholders
    • Work with relevant technical and business teams on new concepts and projects
    Technologies: JavaScript, Python, PostgreSQL
  • Intern Software Engineer

    2013 - 2013
    Pring
    • Design of Test Cases
    • Implementation of Test Cases
    • Test Case documentation
    • Test Case execution
    • Test Planning
    • Test Scheduling
    • Defect Management & Reporting
    • Use of test management or automated test tools
    Technologies: JavaScript, SQL, React

Ventures

  • Co-Founder | CTO

    2018 - 2019
    Dj Adviser
    • Developed a platform for Dj’s to create there online profile.
    • Developed a functionality to make bookings and send payments.
    • Participated in InnovationACT startup accelerator in Canberra in 2019 and won several awards.
    Technologies: Progressive Web, Vue, Nuxt, Mongoose DB, HTML, CSS, Javascript, AWS, Docker, Heroku, NodeJS, Netlify, ExpressJS, Auth0, Stripe
  • Freelance Software Engineer

    2019 - 2019
    Private Client
    • Developed static websites for clients in Canberra.
    Technologies: html, css, javascript, bootstrap
  • Volunteer Software Engineer

    2012 - 2013
    IEEE
    • Deployed the website for National Electronic Olympiad.
    • Developed the participant registration system.
    Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Apache HTTP Server

Projects Delivered

  • Identifying Buildings in Satellite Images with Deep Learning (Development)

    Used Landsat 8 satellite images in conjection with high resolution ariel images to identify land use as a building or not a building.

  • Searching and Retriving Information from a Book (Development)

    Indexing words of a book, creating synonyms, assigning weights, created feature vector, Serialized book into XML as chapters and paragraphs. Categorized chapter with similarity.

  • Predicting Housing Prices (Development)

    Collected data from various sources and used liner regression to model house prices in Canberra.

  • Fruit Counting and Tracking (Development)

    Build an object recognition and tracking program to counting the types of fruit across a conveyer belt.

  • Maze Search (Development)

    Implemented various algorithm on a maze game to aid an agent to navigate and achieve various goals like collecting crystals.

  • Solving Sudoku as a Constrain Satisfaction Problem (Development)

    Using an implemented framework for this project worked on improving simple backtracking search by implementing Forward Checking, Arc Consistency to improve the performance.

  • SAT-Based Planning (Development)

    In this project I implement various automatic translations of STRIPS planning instances into SAT with focus on generating CNF encoding of planning problems and interpreting the solutions found by the SAT solver.

  • Smart Car Tracking System integrated with Android (Development)

    This project involves building a GSM based car tracker integrated with android device.

Skills

  • Languages

    TypeScript, JavaScript, Python 3, HTML5, CSS3, Python, HTML, CSS, Sass, SCSS, PHP, SQL, Java, C, C++, C#, Scheme, IDL, Bash
  • Frameworks

    Express.js, Bootstrap, Flask, Vue, Microsoft Kinect, Nuxt.js
  • Libraries/APIs

    Node.js, NumPy, Matplotlib, SciPy, D3.js, jQuery, Vuex, Vue.js
  • Tools

    Docker Compose, Docker Hub, Adobe Illustrator, Gulp.js, Adobe Photoshop, LaTeX, Mongoose, Adobe Creative Suite, Webpack, Packer, Terraform, Adobe InDesign, AWS ECS, AWS ECR, Apache, Travis CI, Code Climate, Codecov
  • Paradigms

    Functional Programming, Functional Reactive Programming, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Agile Software Development, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment, Continuous Delivery (CD), DevOps, Test-driven Development (TDD)
  • Platforms

    Linux, MacOS, Docker, Arch Linux, Alpine Linux, Windows, Android, AWS EC2,
  • Storage

    JSON, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, AWS S3
  • Other

    CSS-in-JS, Styled Components, Software Developer, Embedded Software Engineer, SVG, Chrome Extensions, Web Extensions, Scraping, Web Scraping, AWS DevOps, Semantic Technology

Education

  • Master of Computing - (MSc) degree in Artificial Intelligence
    2015 - 2017
    The Australian National University - Canberra, Australia
  • Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Electronics Engineering
    2010 - 2014
    Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute

Awards

  • Won multiple prizes at Innovation ACT
    October 2019
    Developed platform for Djadviser.
  • Won Act Innovation Health Challenge hosted by ANU
    March 2018
    Developed prototype to model to predicted health of person in future.
  • Won 2nd position at GE Industrial Hackathon – Melbourne
    November 2015
    Developed mobile app to calculate alpha and beta angles using image processing.

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
    Feburary 2020
    Amazon Web Services
  • GIS and Spatial Analysis - Distinction
    Decemebr 2018
    The Australian National University