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Saif Alesawy

Experience

Instructional Aide (IA)

SI 699: Big Data Analytics — January 2024 - Present
EECS 548: Information Visualization — January 2024 - Present
  • Hosted weekly office hours and attended lectures for both classes to assist masters-level students with assignments and projects
  • Graded assignments and projects, and provided feedback to students
  • Help prepare, write, and administer exams for more than 150 students taking the course

Software Engineer

TSM — May 2022 - Present
  • Developed new features and microservices using Node, TS, Kubernetes, CockroachDB (SQL), Redis, Mongo, Prometheus, React, etc., for a platform with over a million weekly active users
  • Designed, developed, and deployed Dyno Forms, increasing pageviews by 1 million per month
  • Developed a new advertising module, increasing ad impressions by 500% and revenue by 78% within a quarter
  • Refactored API middleware, improving latency by 15% through caching, query optimization, and indexing

Mission Control Center Subteam Lead

NASA SUITS, CLAWS — September 2022 - Present
  • Led a team of 14 students to create the Mission Control Center (MCC) website
  • MCC included real-time monitoring, tracking astronaut locations, direct rover control with live video, and voice communications with astronauts via websocket communications
  • Attended the annual showcase in Houston, Texas at the John Space Center to present our work to NASA Engineers
  • Participated in roundtables alongside astronauts, scientists, and engineers focused on the Artemis II mission

Machine Learning Engineer

Michigan Data Science Team — September 2022 - Present
  • Developed a machine learning model to predict diabetes with 85% accuracy and 90% recall
  • Analyzed and visualized data to understand factors influencing diabetes diagnosis
  • Presented findings at the Michigan Data Science Symposium
  • Applied GANs and other techniques for image super-resolution

Education

University of Michigan — Ann Arbor, MI

B.S.E. Computer Science Engineering — September 2021 - May 2025
  • Data Structures and Algorithms, Discrete Mathematics, Web Systems
  • Data-Oriented Programming, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations
  • Multivariable Calculus, Probability and Statistics, Computer Organization
B.S.E. Biomedical Engineering — September 2021 - May 2025
  • Biomedical Instrumentation and Design, Circuits and Systems
  • Biophysical Chemistry and Thermodynamics, Biomedical Engineering Design
  • Quantitative Cell Biology, Biomedical Instrumentation and Design

Skills

  • Languages - C++, C, Java, Node.js, JavaScript (React/Redux, Vue), TypeScript, GraphQL, SQL, PHP, Python, Bash, HTML5, CSS3, JSON
  • Concepts - Web Application Development, Design Patterns (REST API Design, MVC), Databases (Postgres, SQL), Authentication and Security (OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SSO, JWT), Linux/UNIX Administration, Webpack, Electron, Version Control (Git), AWS Infrastructure (EC2, Route 53, RDS), Testing (Unit, Component, Integration, End-to-end), Kubernetes (Rancher, Helm)