Ali Alavi
[experience & skills]
2017-2018 - MedAux Inc. - CTO
- Architect, full stack development, code revision and supervision of a small team of developers
- Accepted into StarTech and EdTech Accelerators, awarded first place in Hofstra Venture Challenge
- Django, JavaScript, React, PostgreSQL HTML/CSS, AWS, CircleCI
2013-2017 - ETH Zurich - Scientific Employee
- Architecure, development, teaching and supervision of students and engineers
- C#, WPF, Python+SciKit, Node, Mongo, C
2012-2013 - Touchtech - Windows Programming
- Development of C#/WPF interactive applications for windows
- C#, WPF, SQL Server, TFS
2005-2010 - Bloorintar - Embedded Software Engineer
- Design and development of embedded solutions
- C, C#, Assembly, Javascript
2002-2005 - Peyvand Afzar Farda - Fullstack developer
- Web developer
- ASP, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, SQL Server
[education]
2013-2018 - ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland - Ph.D., Human-Computer Interaction
Development of a framework for pose and gesture recognition
2010-2012 - Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden - Master of Science, Computer systems and networks
Focused on secure and dependable computer systems, and formal methods.
2002-2007 - Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran - Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering
With focus courses on computer science and digital electronics.
[skills]
- Programming: Python+Django, JavaScript+Node, HTML/CSS, React, SQL/NoSQL, C, C#
- Tools & platforms: GitHub, CircleCI, AWS, Debian, ...
- Machine learning: SVM, Random Forests, SGD, ...
[hobbies & personality]
- Movies, books, slacklining
- Avid traveler language enthusiast: English, Persian, Swedish (B1), Spanish (B1), German (A2)
- Goal oriented, maker+hacker, data oriented
[side projects]
2014 - Zurich, Switzerland - Automatic News Generation Based on Twitter
Selected as the top 3 projects in Big Data, Fall 2014, ETH Zurich
2011 - Gothenburg, Sweden - TravelHack
Selected as best app for improving pubtrans in Vastra Gotaland, Sweden
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