makhshari / lightbulb

an iOS app for controlling an IoT light bulb remotely

Hello 👋 I'm Amir (he/him),

I'm 25, graduated with masters from UBC Computer Engineering Department 🎓

My most recent occupations:

• Research Assistant at SALT Lab @UBC ECE Department working on a research project by Intel
• Teaching Assistant at UBC CS department.

What I'm passionate about? ⚡

• Backend Development: What's more exciting than designing and coding the backbone of a system?
• Testing: It's always fun to break a working code 👓
  • API testing tool ⚒️: StressThing
  • Android test automation tool⚒️: DrodCov
• Internet-of-Things (IoT):
  • conference paper + presentation at ICSE'21 🤓👔: IoT Bugs and Development Challenges
  • IoT System for controlling TV transmitters ⚒️: RTTio
  • IoT System for controlling light bulbs ⚒️: prims.io
  • IoT platform backend ⚒️: AUT.io
  • Embedded-system projects ⚒️: FRDM-KLZ25
• Machine Learning on Source Code:
  • paper 🤓: On The Effect of Graph Representation of Source Code in Bug Detection
  • bug detection + source code representation tool ⚒️: Graph Neural Network for Javascript Source Code
  • spam detection⚒️: Spam.ML
• And I love algorithm design:
  • 🧠 8-puzzle problem
  • 🧠 Roman Routing problem

BUT, I'm always on a mission to learn something new..

What I'm learning 'now'? 🌱

• System Design: Load balancers and Design Patterns for Microservices...
• Programming Languages: Ruby and Go...
• Testing: How to test distributed and cloud-based systems...
• Frameworks: Java Spring

Reach out to me if you wish to collaborate with me or if you want to learn these skills too!

When I'm not coding...

• Playing drums🥁
  • I was the drummer for Crows in the Rain for 3 years. We recorded three albums (23 songs) with some of the songs having over 100k Streams on Spotify❤️.
• Spending time with friends and families, playing soccer, cooking, reading, skateboarding, ... ☀️

How to reach me?

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