Ziggy at St. John's College (2022)

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

SIGMORPHON 2023 Association for Computational Linguistics

Presentations

SIGMORPHON Workshop @ ACL 2023, Toronto, Canada
Department Talk @ UBC Linguistics, Vancouver, Canada