I'm Ziggy, a software engineer and linguist with a background in digital media and teaching.

Experience

Software Engineer

@ Meta via TEKsystems

Aug. 2024 - Present

Data Engineer Team Lead

@ Meta via TEKsystems

Mar. 2024 - Aug. 2024

Data Engineer

@ Meta via TEKsystems

Nov. 2023 - Mar. 2024

Prompt Engineer

@ Meta via TEKsystems

Sep. 2023 - Oct. 2023

NLP Engineer Intern

@ Kai Analytics

May 2023 - July 2023

Industry Expert Teacher

@ Casey Tech School

Oct. 2018 - July 2022

3D Modelling & Animation Intern

@ Lightmare Studios

Feb. 2016 - July 2016

Quality Assurance Intern

@ League of Geeks

July 2015

Education

Master of Data Science (Computational Linguistics)

@ University of British Columbia

2022 - 2023

Graduate Certificate Applied Data Analytics

@ Australian National University

2021 - 2022

Graduate Certificate Applied Linguistics

@ Monash University

2021 - 2022

Bachelor of Communication (Media)

@ RMIT

2018 - 2021

Certificate III Digital Design for Games

@ Box Hill Institute

2016

Languages

Python
SQL
R
HTML/CSS
JavaScript
SASS
Bash
GLSL
C#
C++
Go

Systems

Linux
Git
ACES
OpenGL
NDI
Raspberry Pi

Software

Docker
MongoDB
PostgreSQL
Davinci Resolve
Adobe Creative Cloud
Blender
Ableton Live
Touch Designer
Max
Unity
Godot
FFmpeg
Handbrake
Avidemux
CMake
VCPKG

Libraries

Pandas
Numpy
Scipy
PyTorch
Scikit-learn
Hugging Face
FastAPI
Requests
LangChain
NLTK
spaCy
PyAnnote
PyMongo
PyQt
Streamlit
Hugo
Barba.js
GreenSock
Altair
Matplotlib

APIS

OpenAI
GSheets
YouTube
Spotify
Discord
Genius

Publications

Glossy Bytes: Neural Glossing using Subword Encoding

2023

SIGMORPHON 2023 Association for Computational Linguistics

Presentations

Glossy Bytes: Neural Glossing using Subword Encoding

2023

SIGMORPHON Workshop @ ACL 2023, Toronto, Canada

Caption-informed Speaker Diarization

2023

Department Talk @ UBC Linguistics, Vancouver, Canada