Ahmed Ben Neji
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Github : https://github.com/lionadis/
Education
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National Institute of Applied Science and Technology
Bachelor of Software Engineering; GPA: 3.3 (12.28 / 20)
Tunis, Tunisia
September. 2015 – Present
Experience
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Kaoun
Tunis, Tunisia
Software Engineer
May 2018 - Present
◦ Search Engine: Built on top of an existing database, to improve querying time and reduce load on the database,
and to allow for much complex queries. Using ElasticSearch.
◦ Notifications: Developed a service for sending push and in-app notifications. Used mainly to keep the user
informed with their KYC demands, money transactions, payment requests. Using Firebase.
◦ Email To Notification: Developed a solution, to redirect an email to a notification, for users having no mail
box. Using Postfix as a backend for the mail server and Firebase.
◦ API Developement: Helped in developing and testing the backend of the product. Using Django/DRF.
Achievements
• Winner of INSAT CPC (02/2017): An algorithmic programming contest, which represents the university level
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qualification for the sub regional competition.
Former Rank 1, on the Tunisian ladder, on Codeforces: Codeforces is a website that hosts competitive
programming contests. Reached Rank 1 with a peak performance rating of 2070.
Contestant at ICPC World Semi-Final (ACPC) (10/2017): Qualified for the regional level competition.
3rd Place in BigData Hackathon (10/2017): We developed a car pooling prediction utility, where we had to scrape
data from local Facebook car pooling groups, we then fed the data to a machine learning model, the model took in input
your destination and returned the best time to look for a ride.
Winner of TuniHack 4.0 Hackathon (12/2018): The hackathon focused on Data Visualization, Our winning
solution consists of a visualization platform, named ”Hassin”, which aims to fight against municipal taxes evasion in
order to contribute to the local infrastructure development.
Winner of INSAT CPC (03/2019): University level qualification for the sub-regional competition.
Winner of TCPC (09/2019): Earned Gold medal in the sub regional competition, with participants from universities
from all the country.
Projects
• Yona Music: Concert/musical events search engine, written in Angular 8.
• General CSP: A Generalized Constrained Satisfaction Problem Solver, developed in Python.
• Easy21: A project to demonstrate and evaluate the performance of different reinforcement learning agents on a custom
environment of Easy21 (a modified version of Blackjack), developed in Python.
• Distributing the Hyper-spectral image classification Framework (End of year project assignment): The
project aimed to distribute and parallelize, an existing classification framework (SUnSAL), using big data technology
(Hadoop/Spark).
Volunteer work
• ACM INSAT CPC (08/2017 – 2019): Co. Founder and Chief Technical Officer.
• INSAT Samsung Academy (09/2017 – 2018): Logistics Manager.
• NIT Day: Problem Solving Challenge manager.
Programming Skills
• Languages: Python, JavaScript, HTML/CSS C/C++, Bash scripting.
• Technologies: ElasticSearch, Django/DRF, Docker, Kibana.
• Interests: Algorithmic, Data Structures, Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning.
