About
Welcome to my little corner of the internet! I’m Austin, a young engineer interested in medical robotics, ml/ai, and accessible tech. Currently, I'm based in Toronto, Canada developing ml/ai algorithms for medical imaging diagnostics @vitaa_medical.
In my spare time, you can find me hosting pop-up coffee shops, food reviewing hidden gems, judging robotics competitions, or power lifting at the gym! Recently, I've started a podcast on which I plan to talk more about some of my thoughts on tech and general musings about the world.
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Projects
Kabo is a karaoke Discord bot developed at Hack the North 2020++ for simulating karaoke with live pitch and lyrical correctness scoring. Backend developed in Python using Aubio, Numpy, SpeechRecognition, Pydub, LyricsGenius, and Wave libraries for audio analysis. Frontend developed using Node.js, Discord.js, and PythonShell for interfacing.
- Python
- Numpy
- Azure
- JavaScript
- Node.js
- Discord.js
iCal is a web app which deciphers images into google calendar events. Using Google's Cloud Vision API and OCR technology, iCal takes images of events (think poster or webpage screenshot) to create an event in your Google Calendar with the correct title, date, and description. In the future I hope to build this into a Chrome extension for acessibility and quality of life usage.
- Google Cloud Vision API
- Google Calendar API
- JavaScript
- Node.js
- Discord.js
- CSS
Designed a portable machine shop which fits in the bed of medium to large sized pickup trucks as my undergraduate capstone project. Design is directed towards contract manufacturing, maintenance, and competitive engineering design teams for convenient machining of small steel and aluminum parts utilizing milling, turning, and drilling operations.
- SolidWorks
- FEA
- FMEA
Designed a helmet factor of safety testing machine capable of impacting helmets at 28m/s with a force of 60N across six impact locations using three pneumatic piston end effector mechanisms. Designed custom cam followers and pawl & ratchet mechanisms. Simulated designs using SolidWorks motion analysis and OMRON PLC utilizing PLC fiddle ladder logic software for pneumatic testing.
- SolidWorks
- Ladder Logic
- PLC
Built two IoT enabled ground drones communicating using MQTT protocol for PennApps XVII. The two ground drones collect thermal, moisture, and relative location data for autonomous 2D environment mapping. Built with the attempt at targeting disaster relief and search & rescue.
- Python
- C++
- IoT
- MQTT
- Arduino
- SolidWorks
- Laser Cutting
- 3D Printing
Designed and fabricated a bionic arm assembly offering 15 degrees of freedom (3 DOF across each finger). Manufactured the design in under $150 as a proof of concept to further the field of bio-mechanics in hope of making prosthetics more accessible and versatile in the future.
- C++
- Arduino
- SolidWorks
- ANSYS
- FEA
- Laser Cutting
- 3D Printing
Greeco is a web application that allows users to rate and visualize a 'cleanliness' overlay of their local surroundings. Greeco acts as a crowd sourced approach to identify problematic areas whilst raising awarness and organizing cleanup events in local communities.
- Python
- Django
- JavaScript
- CSS
- Bootstrap
- Google Maps API
Deployed a kinematic motion tracking app on the Google Play Store with 2190+ total installs. The app leverages OpenCV for real-time computer vision to track motion of objects to render downloadable CSV graphs of its position, velocity, and acceleration. Designed in hope of making higher education experimentation more accessible.
- Android
- OpenCV
- Java
- GraphQL
UFbOat is an enclosed lifeboat developed for emergency life support and rescue in the Carribean sea capable of fitting eight adults. Designed for small scale usage on medium sized boats.
- SolidWorks
- FMEA
Decided my portfolio needed an upgrade. Built this website using a variety of tools I was interested in learning at the time including React, Next.js, Chakra UI, SASS, and AOS. Yep, surprisingly this is my first React website!
- React.js
- Next.js
- Chakra UI
- JavaScript
- styled-components
- CSS
- SASS
- AOS
Timeline
Software Development Engineer @ ViTAA Medical
Developing an in-house ML/AI infastructure...
Software Development Engineer @ ViTAA Medical
Planned and implemented software architecture and infastructure overhauls. Introducing parallel computing and automated CI/CD integration pipelines reducing product and testing run times by 30% and 43% respectively. Led development and implementation of a 3D cardiovascular auto-segmentation algorithm in PyTorch leveraging MONAI and NIfTI libraries, resulting in a 92.84% Dice and 27% time reduction in QA personnel manual adjustments. Leading all development, implementation, and management of cybsersecurity tools.
Founder @ August Technologies Inc.
Freelance web development for small businesses.
Jr. Software Development Engineer @ ViTAA Medical
Established and implemented comprehensive coding standards incorporating microservice principles resulting in a 15% improvement in deployment flexibility and resource utilization.
Sr. Analyst @ CIBC
Led internal process consulting for $50M business banking product transformation.
Data Analyst @ TOHacks
Leveraged Python, Seaborn, and Pandas to clean, visualize, and analyze prior years’ user submission data, guiding data-drive design & business decisions, improving user submissions, and increasing registrations by 84% & user engagement by 23%. Conducted A/B testing to assess the impact of various design decisions, resulting in a 20% increase in user conversion.
Process Engineer @ AlphaPoly
Developed sustainable packaging solutions to reduce GHG emissions for plastic converting.
Product Data Analyst @ Celestica
Analyzed $5+ million in customer portfolios utilizing SQL, Tableau, and PowerBI to uncover demonetized products and assess effects of commodity price fluctuations
URC Mechanical Science Lead @ Ryerson Rams Robotics
Designed and manufactured autonomous science console for life detection on mars.
Research Assistant @ Ryerson University
Led mechanical design ideation, initial design, and modeling of soft robotic continuum arm in SolidWorks and applied FEA in GMSH, SOFA, and ANSYS to analyze and simulate mechanical behaviour.
Product Data Analyst Intern @ Celestica
Coordinated Aerospace & Defense value engineering cost savings projects. Reducing excess inventory by over 20% and expanding customer AVL portfolio by over 15%, leading to annual cost savings of $1.5M.
URC Chassis Lead @ Ryerson Rams Robotics
Piloted development and evaluation of dynamic and static force model simulations in MATLAB for mechanical analysis and redesign, increasing drive train structural integrity by over 35%. Developed VBA macros for consolidating and analyzing: team performance metric reports and customer BOMs for product management.