Hi(-ko) [pronounced]
I’m recently started working as a Software Engineer for Waabi in Toronto, Canada.
Interests
- Artificial Intelligence
- Reinforcement Learning
- Software Engineering
Education
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M.Sc. in Computer Science, 2022
TU Darmstadt
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B.Sc. in Computer Science, 2020
TU Darmstadt
Projects
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Experience
Software Engineer
Machine Learning Operations
Stealth Startup
- Responsible for production code and infrastructure deployment of all ML Operations
- Reduced core compute pipeline execution time by a factor of 15 while also reducing cost by 70%
- Setup all AWS infrastructure for the company and evaluated new ML developments like AWS Inferentia 2 in collaboration with teams at AWS
- Procured, setup and administrated a new compute cluster with fully composable GPU infrastructure using Dell and Liqid
- Established a company-wide configuration system based on hydra and Git
- Trained coworkers to transition from pure research roles to modern software engineering and development, following best-practices like CI, testing, code reviews and VCS
Team Manager
- Oversaw three student teams as part of the applied software engineering project at TU Darmstadt
- Projects included a novel teaching slide presenter and two inventory systems for a training center of Deutsche Bahn
Student Developer
- Worked on several software projects in Python and Go
- Wrote Ansible roles to deploy software such as prometheus and kubernetes
- Developed an open-source Python tool to generate web certificates; tool is currently used by multiple German universities
Contact
- heiko.carrasco@yahoo.com
- 386 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON M5B 0A5