Afzal Ansari

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I am a passionate about learning new tech stuff and the evolution of technology in the world around us. With a drive to innovate and create, I am an open source enthusiast, currently seeking a mentorship program within one of the open source projects. Apart from that, I always enjoy meeting new people and hearing about their perspectives on how different things work.


Internship / Academic Projects

Mentee at OPEN LIFE SCIENCE

Worked on the project based on documentation enhancement at sktime OS as a mentee under the mentor Dr. Toby Hodges for 4 months.

Project’s aim was to make easier for users and developers of sktime to recognize their contributions more visibly by highlighting automatically algorithms with their code-owners in the table.

Feb 2021 - May 2021

Mentee at OPEN SOURCE PROJECT (SKTIME)

Worked as a mentee on Documentation, Code and Testing under the guidance of Mentor Markus Loning for 3 months.

Learnt the functionality of the Machine Learning library used for time series analysis and made contributions to the core library.

Nov 2020 - Jan 2021

Research Intern

Summer Research Virtual Internship

Attended online some various insightful talks and lecture series from Eminent Scientist and Professors. Worked on Research project in Time Series Analysis of Covid-19 in India using several methods for 3 months.

June 2020 - Aug 2020

Technical Content Writer and Video Content Developer Intern

Writing articles on programming stuffs, Gblogs, projects, etc. Making video tutorials on existing articles.

Jan 2017 - Jan 2018

Education

International Institute of Information Technology

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

CGPA: 7.32

August 2013 - May 2017

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools

Interests

  • Playing cricket and table tennis
  • Travelling and Videography
  • Gardening
  • I love spending a large amount of my free time exploring the latest technology advancements in the cloud-native stuff.


    Awards & Certifications

    • Udacity* Google Scholarship Recipient
    • Scholarship recipient to attend various events online at PyData* Global Summit 2020, PyCon* 2021 and KubeCon* 2021
    • Open-Source Contributor in FOSSASIA*, sktime*, meshery, kyverno, keptn
    • 2x Finalist Winner* of Codeheat Contest, 2020-2021, a event by FOSSASIA*, open-source project
    • 4x Hackathon Winner, DevOps Category
    • Presented paper at NC-ACT 2020 Conference*
    • Research Paper accepted on CIPMAS’s Book Chapter* 2020-21, De Grutyer publisher