Who am I?
- I've been tinkering with some form of technology from an early age. My earliest memories include: -- making custom Neopets pages for myself and friends -- turning my Sony Vaio into a Hackintosh - it worked fairly well except for the WiFi module which was solved by attaching a USB WiFi adapter.
- I have prototyped gadgets with Arduinos and even built a 2-lead ECG as University project. - My capstone project was an attempt to sort a given audio clip into one of four categories; I was responsible for building the classifier in MATLAB. This project peaked my interest in Machine Learning.
- I have since worked as an Analyst in one of the top cancer institutes in the world (Princess Margaret), a Sales Engineer at a medical hardware startup. - In the last 1.5 years, I've worked as a software engineer (amongst other hats) at a healthcare startup that was focused on automating clinical workflows; of note: we attempted to generate clinical notes from patient-physician conversations. I was heavily involved in all aspects of the project from implementing the voice functionality to prototyping with large language models and conducting interviews with end-users etc.
- Currently, in my free time, I'm following the fast.ai lectures with the goal of creating a 'smart compose' for clinical notes - an idea that's stuck with me from my discussions with our end users.
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Location: Toronto, Canada
Remote: I'm open to remote & in-person opportunities in the Toronto region.
Technologies: Python, JavaScript, React, Docker, FastAPI...
You can view my detailed resume here: https://standardresume.co/r/zardarkhan
Email: zardar [dot] khan @ icloud.com