Hi

I'm

Omar Shoura

Software Engineer | Student

About Me

I'm a third year CS student at Northeastern University studying Computer Science with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence. Some of my favorite courses were/are Object Oriented Design, Programming Languages, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning. Graduation: May 2024
My Passion
I'm in Software Engineering because I have a strong desire to improve the world through technology. Since I was a child, I loved everything about technology, building my first computer when I was 9 with my dad. Today, I think what sets my apart is my well-roundedness. I'm not just diverse in my technical skillsets, but I am constantly engaged with the business side. I'm confident that I can suceed at any job due to my ability to ask the right questions and learn quickly.
In my free time
I love cooking and I love eating even more, I try new cuisines whenever I can. I also love fitness in general. I do strength training, boxing, brazilian jiu jitsu, and martial arts (I became a blackbelt at 15 years of age). I also love podcasts and audiobooks. I'll occasionally binge a good novel, but mostly, I'll listen to finance, business, tech, self-development. Some of my favorite audiobooks: Freakonomics, Automic Habits, The 4-Hour Workweek, and Harry Potter (Deathly Hollows); Podcasts: Motley Fool Money, Pivot, The Firsts. I'm involved in a Muslim Youth Group called Arkanum where I mentor middle school to high school aged kids. I give them Islamic lessons, go out with them in Boston, and even chaperone on overnight retreats. I joined as a mentee 5 years ago, loved the community, and stayed ever since. I also got married in May of 2023 💍

My Resume

Work Experience

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Software Engineer Coop

[Incoming] Fall 2023

Reprise

Incoming Full Stack Software Engineer with React and Django tech stack

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Software Engineer Intern

Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

Capital One: Cloud Maturity

Developed MVP platform for assessing compliance, performance, and efficiency of AWS resources across org

Integrated 6 internal data sources through APIs, cleaned and normalized, then loaded into postgreSQL

Built dashboard using Streamlit to search for accounts, display their score and affected resources and offer remediation instructions; Interfaced with internal library for interacting with AWS resources (boto3 wrapper)

Volunteered for 12 hours to teach middle school kids coding in small groups providing individual assistance

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Machine Learning Engineer Coop

Jul 2022 - Dec 2022

Liberty Mutual Insurance: Office of Data Science

Redesigned an insurance modeling library in python, to reduce memory usage, standardize interfaces by following Sklearn standards, and improve documentation consistency; 12+ data scientists use library

Designed configurable, robust, and well-tested data transformers for underwriting models that sped up deployment from an average of 3 months to only 2 weeks; presented tools to external teams

Designed new ensemble model to aggregate 3 models to improve predictions; currently deployed and used

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Software Engineer

Dec 2021 - Apr 2022

Generate: Student led Product Development Studio

Built modern user interface for a home screen and explore page in React closely following Figma designs

Set up authentication process with Django back-end, Spotify user integration, Redux for state management

Collaborated with 11 engineers to build React and Django based prototype web app in 4 months for customer

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Teaching Assistant for Fundamentals of Computer Science 1 and Object-Oriented Design

Sep 2021 - Jun 2022

Khoury College of Computer Science

Led labs with 30+ students to answer questions and teach Functional Programming & OOD paradigms

Planned review session with 200+ students attending, working closely with professor to prepare material

Held office hours to provide one-on-one support, understanding and helping students with unfamiliar code

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Research Assistant

Oct 2020 - Jun 2021

Ultrabroadband Nanonetworking (UN) Laboratory

Took channel sounding captures in an isolated RF channel emulator to understand the Terahertz band for 6G research

Used a Digital Storage Oscilloscope, an Arbitrary Waveform Generator, and PSG Signal Generators to take precise measurements and conduct analysis in a lab setting

Co-authored the research paper "Data Signals for Terahertz Communications Research"

Education

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Bachelor's of Computer Science

Sept 2020 - Apr 2024

Boston, MA

Northeastern University

GPA: 3.9 / 4.0- Dean's List

Coursework: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning I, Software Engineering, Programming Languages, Foundation of Data Science, Object-Oriented Design, Algorithms and Data Structures

Islamic Society of Northeastern - Eboard member:
• Led regular lectures on Islamic history for 30+ students that required extensive research and public speaking skills
• Advocated for Muslim Students and got a dedicated prayer space, halal food, acknowledgement of Muslim holidays, and safe transportation to nearby mosque
• Organized a 14 team charity basketball tournament from 8 different universities called MSA Madness. Expected to Raise $2,500

Disrupt Fintech Organization - Tech Team Programmer :
• Design, build and publish an educational Fintech app in React Native for the Northeastern Community
• Transform Figma wireframes with a team of 5 into a working app within 12 weeks

Other Involvements: Arab Student Association: Country Ambassador
Northeastern Real Estate Club

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High School

Sept 2016 - June 2020

Newton, MA

Newton North High School

GPA: 4.5/5.0- High Honors

Coursework: AP Statistics, AP Calculus, AP Chemistry, French V, Arabic, Middle Eastern History, TA for Computer Science

Involvements: Wrestling, Soccer, Robotics, Arab Student Association

Skills

Certifications

AWS_CDA

AWS Cloud Practitioner

AWS_CCP

AWS Cloud Developer (in progress)

Download My Resume

My Projects

Refer to my Github for the most up to date information.

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Get in touch

Name :
Omar Shoura
Phone :
+1 (617) 775-4868
City :
Boston, MA