About Me

I'm a computer scientist living in Ottawa, Ontario. I recently graduated from the University of Ottawa, and studied bioinformatics as part of my undergrad.

I'm currently employed, and not actively seeking employement. :)

Condensed CV

Education

• University of Ottawa: BSc Computer Science with Option in Bioinformatics (en français).
  • Honours project on unified RNA motif visualization (modawgs)
  • Relevent coursework: genetics, genomics, optimization methods, distributed computing, analysis and design of user interfaces, software design and architecture, algorithms in bioinformatics.
  • Graduated May 2015

Current Work Experience

• Comcast: Cloud Software Engineer, December 2016 to present
  • Software developer, working with cloud infrastructure.
  • Using Go to write tools for managing large scale AWS, Azure, and OpenStack deployments.
  • Experience using Docker, Helm, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Jenkins to automatically build, deploy, and scale containers in public and private cloud.
  • Writing RESTful APIs in Go, and also working with WebSocket.
  • Experience with InfluxDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, as well as Amazon Lambda, IAM, and SQS.
  • Fully remote, with team members in a half-dozen locations across the United States and Canada.
• Phirelight Security Solutions: Software Developer, January 2016 to August 2016
  • Developing high-performance, highly-concurrent, big data services and microservices using Go and gin-gonic.
  • Working with messaging services (NSQ, Apache Kafka, and Redis), along with SQL (MySQL, SQLite3) and NoSQL (Cassandra, Redis) storage systems.
  • Creating well-organized documentation and API specifications with a variety of tools.
  • Building and deploying with Docker, monitoring services in test environments.
• Emcarta: Senior Software Developer, September 2015 to December 2015
  • Developing a high-performance, highly concurrent, http/rest web service using Go.
  • Developing a matching HTML5 browser interface using Bootstrap, WebSocket, JWT, and other Web technologies.
• University of Ottawa -- Faculty of Engineering: Teaching Assistant, January 2015 to April 2015
  • Teaching Assistant for ITI1500, Introduction to Digital Systems I.
  • Covering boolean logic, logic gates, basic digital structures, flip-flops, and registers; basics of computing at the physical level.
  • Primary responsibilities include laboratory supervision and evaluation, as well as preparing and teaching tutorials.
• Shared Services Canada: Software Developer (co-op), January 2014 to August 2014
  • Creation of user response surveys and accompanying data collection services.
  • Primarily centred around the use of Fluid Surveys, involving HTML5 technologies.
  • Implementing established accessibility patterns.
• Macadamian: Software developer (co-op), May 2013 to August 2013:
  • Agile environment, various client projects relating to Web technologies.
  • Worked on a C#/XAML Windows 8 project, contributed to the documentation and refactoring of the code.
  • Worked on an HTML5/C++ project, using QtWebKit on a backported platform.

Skills

Programming Languages

• Expert in Python, Java, R, JavaScript, Go, HTML5.
• Extensive experience in C++, C#, C, SQL, Prolog, Scheme, Perl, XAML.

Technologies and Platforms

• Advanced experience with Windows 2000 through Windows 10.
• Advanced experience with GNU/Linux (Debian-based, RedHat-based, SUSE-based).
• Experience working with Glassfish, WebSocket, Apache, REST, JSON, Qt, wx, lighttpd, and git.
• Experience working with Arduino microcontrollers, Fritzing, and other integrated circuit technology.
• Experience working with ARM processors and embedded platforms.

Human Languages

• Native French, English, and Arabic speaker.
• Developped familiarity with medical, biological, and computing terminology.

Research and Projects

• Research experience and interest primarily in bioinformatics.
• Special interests in embedded and assistive technologies.
• Developed modawgs, software tool for visualization of RNA motifs.
• Developing pjfit, software tool for analysis of solid-state NMR spectra.
• Github jmsleiman.
• Designed and produced a working circuit board around the Atmega328p and TLC5940.