Nitin Birdi

NLP, Audio, and Computer Vision ML specialist completing a master's in applied computer science at Concordia University (May 2026). Experienced in designing and benchmarking transformer-based models (RoBERTa, WavLM, HuBERT) and deploying fullstack web applications. Seeking ML Engineer or AI/NLP Developer roles in Canada's tech ecosystem.

Graduate Teaching Assistant - Concordia University - Montreal

(2026-01)

• Designed and delivered technical tutorials for SOEN-487 (Web Services & Application Design) under Prof. Hassan, covering React, Express.js, MongoDB, GraphQL, and JSON APIs.
• Mentored 40+ students in full-stack development best practices; held weekly office hours and provided code review feedback on assignments.
• Supported grading and curriculum development, contributing to rubrics and assignment design for REST API and GraphQL integration projects.

Full-stack Developer - Self-employed - Montreal

(2024-05 - 2024-10)

• Developed a custom restaurant web platform with a headless CMS for menu management and an integrated reservation system using React and Node.js.
• Optimized front-end for Core Web Vitals and SEO, achieving top local search rankings; migrated legacy static site to a modern component based React architecture.
• Identified and implemented AI-ready data structures to support future ML integration (demand forecasting, dynamic pricing) as the business scales.

Master of Applied Computer Science - Applied Computer Science - Concordia University (2024-01 - 2026-05)

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science - Chitkara University (2019-07 - 2023-07)