Sim Virdi
Mentor
(26 reviews)
US$30.00
For every 15 mins
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ABOUT ME
VC Backed Startup Entrepreneur (YC/Techstars) with AI research from Imperial College London (Top 10 Uni Worldwide)
VC Backed Startup Entrepreneur (YC/Techstars) with AI research from Imperial College London (Top 10 Uni Worldwide)
Python and AI expert with 5+ years of professional experience starting and managing VC backed startups engineering and design teams, as well as publishing Machine Learning research in top bio-medical journals.
Currently continuing research in diagnosing COVID from Lung Scans in partnership with Imperial University.
If there's anything I can help you with feel free to contact me, I always go above and beyond to ensure you get the best result.
I can help with:
- Machine Learning (Design and Implementation)
- Full Stack Development
- Bug Fixes and Issue Resolving
- Code Review
- Project Design and Implementation
- Cloud Setup
- Mentoring or Freelance
French, English
London (+01:00)
Joined November 2018
EXPERTISE
5 years experience | 2 endorsements
Have been using this everyday from building websites to scraping large search engines to developing novel machine learning prediction sys...
Have been using this everyday from building websites to scraping large search engines to developing novel machine learning prediction systems for cardiac OCT images.
3 years experience | 2 endorsements
As part of a research team at Imperial College London (top 10 unis worldwide) and Columbia University, published research in ISBI (top bi...
As part of a research team at Imperial College London (top 10 unis worldwide) and Columbia University, published research in ISBI (top bio-medical journal) on using transfer learning to segment a proprietary dataset of cardiac OCT images, achieving clinician level performance and results.
Additionally, developed an end-to-end system to enable renters to find properties that better suited them using data from a variety of sources including the largest housing websites in the UK.
Currently continuing research in diagnosing COVID from Lung Scans in partnership with Imperial University.
2 years experience
Studied AI methods including propositional logic and abductive methods including HAIL and TAL.
NOTE: ML is a subset of AI, this represe...
Studied AI methods including propositional logic and abductive methods including HAIL and TAL.
NOTE: ML is a subset of AI, this represents symbolic AI.
6 years experience
Managed team of 7 developers and designers to produce end-to-end products used by largest insurance company in UK.
Designed and built in...
Managed team of 7 developers and designers to produce end-to-end products used by largest insurance company in UK.
Designed and built insurance platform (BE and infra) from idea conception through to delivery, used by 4M users daily.
Written and utilised many Web APIs including Google, Facebook, UK Government APIs, OpenStreetMap, Zoopla etc.
2 years experience
Developed R&D Alexa chatbots for insurance products in partnership with largest insurance company in UK.
Developed R&D Alexa chatbots for insurance products in partnership with largest insurance company in UK.
2 years experience
Secured cloud servers for banking level encryption at rest and in transit on AWS.
Created and implemented BCM (backup, contingency and ...
Secured cloud servers for banking level encryption at rest and in transit on AWS.
Created and implemented BCM (backup, contingency and monitoring) plans for data storage from large scale enterprise customers.
Launched multiple servers for deep learning computations on Google Cloud.
Wrote multiple bash scripts to ensure setup was automated and succesful.
4 years experience
Written multiple bash scripts to automate multiple routines including web scraping, server setup and installations.
Written multiple bash scripts to automate multiple routines including web scraping, server setup and installations.
REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS
(26 reviews)
Kile Driscoll
December 2020
Thank You. Very helpful
Kile Driscoll
November 2020
Always Helpful
Kile Driscoll
November 2020
Really helpful
Kile Driscoll
November 2020
Awesome guy. Very Helpful
Kile Driscoll
November 2020
Very patient and always willing to help.
Cameron Claiborne
November 2020
Very helpful mentor, helped me out even when he was busy. Sim walks me through his thought process and is a very proficient coder. I have come back to him at least 5 times now.
Kile Driscoll
November 2020
Very Helpful
Kile Driscoll
November 2020
Very Helpful
Kile Driscoll
November 2020
Awesome and Very dedicated.
Kile Driscoll
November 2020
Always willing to help.
EMPLOYMENTS
Founder
Generative AI Startup
2023-09-01-Present
Building a generative AI startup for real time conversational AI agents over telephone.
Building a generative AI startup for real time conversational AI agents over telephone.
Python
NumPy
Pandas
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Python
NumPy
Pandas
React
Next.js
PyTorch
Tailwind css
Fastapi
AWS (Amazon Web Services)
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Research Assistant
Imperial College London
2018-11-01-Present
• Processing cohort of lung images with COVID with Super-Resolution GANs.
• Continued research into deep learning methods on OCT scans.
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• Processing cohort of lung images with COVID with Super-Resolution GANs.
• Continued research into deep learning methods on OCT scans.
• Attempted commercialization of research in the detection of COPD in lung scans.
Python
NumPy
Pandas
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Python
NumPy
Pandas
Machine Learning
Gans
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Senior Software Engineer
Direct Line Group
2019-01-01-2020-03-01
Worked for UKs third largest insurance company.
• Designed and built the entire back-end system into an event-sourced microservice archi...
Worked for UKs third largest insurance company.
• Designed and built the entire back-end system into an event-sourced microservice architecture to serve brand with over 4 million customers.
• Developed event-sourcing microservices architecture using Python and Redis, as well as the TDD, BDD, and Domain Driven Design paradigms.
• Aided infrastructure development on AWS, utilising services such as API gateway, Elasticsearch, and Fargate.
• Adopted the Agile methodology along with CICD for automated deployment.
Python
Redis
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Python
Redis
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PROJECTS
Segmentation of Tissue Layers on OCT images via CNNs
2018
Implemented FC-CNN to perform the segmentation of tissue layers from a dataset of cardiac OCT images using transfer learning.
Reviewed a...
Implemented FC-CNN to perform the segmentation of tissue layers from a dataset of cardiac OCT images using transfer learning.
Reviewed and ranked various CNN options to pursue task.
Adapted and augmented dataset to perform labelling task.
Wrote Bash scripts to automate server setup across Google App Engine resulting in having 10 separate machines, each with 2 NVIDIA Tesla K80 GPUs, operating at the same time for free.
Matched human level performance by achieving average dice score of 82% across all layers.
Built in Python Notebook using PyTorch, Tensorflow and Keras.
Python
Google Cloud Platform
Deep Learning
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Python
Google Cloud Platform
Deep Learning
TensorFlow
Keras
PyTorch
AI (artificial intelligence)
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Universal Valuation API
2017
Developed an API to give accurate pricing valuations of any asset in the UK.
Programmed in Python using BeautifulSoup and Selenium.
6 m...
Developed an API to give accurate pricing valuations of any asset in the UK.
Programmed in Python using BeautifulSoup and Selenium.
6 month timeline completed in 2 weeks.
Python
Selenium
Web Scraping
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Python
Selenium
Web Scraping
Beautiful soup
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