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Experience

Independent Game Developer
April 2023 - Present
Whitby, ON
Design and implement gameplay features
Collaborate with artists to transfer assets to the game engine
Maintain build pipelines for effective developer experience
Released games: : The Happy Hippogriff (TOJam 2024) · Lizzie's Travels (TOJam 2023)
Skills : C++ · Unreal · Unity · Godot

Data Engineer (contract)
Aug. 2022 - April 2023
The Block Crypto, Remote
Build Airflow pipelines that ingested trading data from numerous crypto exchanges
Collaborated with members of the research team to ensure data quality
Maintained pipelines to ensure stability during upstream downtime and API changes
Skills : Python · SQL · Airflow · Pandas · Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Data Processing

Graduate Research Assistant
May 2018 - Aug. 2020
Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, ON
Collaborated in a team of 3 to build tools to track and analyze public opinion of political parties and MPs
Wrote Python scripts to extract data from Twitter tweets and stored them in PostgreSQL databases
Developed and trained machine learning models using TensorFlow to predict the sentiment of tweets and then fed data into visualization tools to monitor public sentiment over time
Built PostgreSQL extension for effective NLP queries in a relational database
Skills : Python web services · PostgreSQL · NLP · Data Processing

Skills

Programing : Python · C/C++ · Java · JavaScript · TypeScript · Kotlin

Data Science/Engineering : Airflow · Numpy · Scipy · NLTK · Gensim · Pandas

Database : PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Redshift

Web Backend : Flask · NodeJS

Web Frontend : React · HTML · CSS · JavaScript · JQuery

ML/AI : Tensorflow · NLP

Tool : Jira · Confluence · Git

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science
2022
Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, ON

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
2018
Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, ON

Projects

NLP Relational Queries And Its Applications
Thesis Project
Developed LDA extension to PostgreSQL to allow Topic Modelling of text columns inside of SQL
Created a web front end to visualize the change in topics over time for academic authors and venues
Published 2020 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science
Technologies : Python · SQL/PostgreSQL · Flask · HTML · CSS · D3.js
Scalable Analysis of Open Data Graphs
Performed analysis of similarities between documents through Canada’s Open Data portal
Provided insight into organization and connectedness of Canada’s Open Data
Scalable and Distributed code base to allow for large dataset and scaling with time
Published and Presented at 2019 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science
Technologies : Python · SQL/PostgreSQL · Apache · Spark/PySpark · Matplotlib · GCP Storage · GCP Dataproc
Canadian Political Twitter Analysis
Built tools to track and analyse the conversation surrounding Canadian politics on Twitter
Tracked key figures and CDNPoli hashtag and predicted standings in 2019 election
Technologies : Python · Tensorflow · SQL/PostgreSQL · Matplotlib

Publications

Stoica, A., K. Pu, and H. Davoudi (2020). “NLP Relational Queries And Its Applications”. In: 2020 IEEE 21th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IRI).pp. 395–398. DOI: 10.1109/IRI49571.2020.00064
Stoica, A., M. Valdron, and K. Pu (2019). “Scalable Analysis of Open Data Graphs”. In: 2019 IEEE 20th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IRI), pp. 334–341. DOI: 10.1109/IRI.2019.00059.