AbbasĀ J
Engineering Manager at Instill
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAbbas J is an Engineering Manager and former lead software engineer with 7 years of experience building ML-driven SaaS and people-science products, currently leading teams at Instill from Ottawa. He blends applied machine learning, NLP/Transformers, and full-stack engineeringāhaving shipped people-analytics platforms used by Fortune 500 clients and built statistically grounded visualization tools during a Berkeley data lab internship. Comfortable hands-on across Python, React and AWS, he also contributes practical tooling like a Reddit stock-trends backend that demonstrates API integration, data processing and security-minded refactoring. Fascinated by the intersection of behavioral psychology and generative AI, he pairs technical leadership with a research-informed approach to productizing human-centered ML.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Technology & Entrepreneurship, Technology & Entrepreneurship at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Private University, India
English
Github Skills (7)
apim10
api10
python10
data-analysis9
pandas8
configuration-management7
json6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
iam-abbas/Reddit-Stock-Trends
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
Fetch currently trending stocks on Reddit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 66 commits, 42 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Abbas primarily worked on back-end functionalities for fetching trending stocks from Reddit. Their commits show the use of Python and associated libraries like `praw` and `yfinance` for data extraction and analysis. The user also refactored code for efficiency and organization and moved credentials to .env for better security. They created data processing and analysis scripts and integrated with external APIs for stock data.
fetchtrendingstocksreddit
iam-abbas/smart-surveillance-using-pi
Sep 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 4 months
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