Classmethod

Classmethod Canada, the Canadian division of Classmethod Japan is a tech support and consulting company I worked at in 2018 and 2019. They focus on clients who have some tech infrastructure and are using or are interested in migrating to the AWS cloud. They provide consulting with respect to migration, billing, security, scaling and reliability. Some of the projects I worked on at Classmethod were:

Twitter Sentiment Analysis

In order to showcase the types of AWS-related services we could provide, we made a proof of concept project that marked the sentiment of a large set of tweets and visualized the results. To do this we obtained a large number of tweets from a dataset from kaggle.com, loaded them into an AWS-hosted database, then ran a highly parallel batch process which detected the sentiment of each of them using AWS Comprehend and aggregated the results into a store that could be understood and visualized by Kibana. We also built a demo that did the same thing but using a real Twitter account, which was able to scrape all the tweets from the account and repeat the same process.

Xpress Yrself

This was a customer feedback terminal that consisted of a terminal with a few buttons on it that customers in a physical store could click in order to rate their experience. I had the pleasure of working on each piece of this project from end to end, including the onboard computer set up (Debian), bluetooth button pairing, printer integration through an sdk written in C, the cloud backend that ingested and stored the data from the terminals, and a real-time visualization web application which consisted of a set of embedded Tableau graphs as well as a floor plan + notification system indicating where a button had been clicked every time it happened.

AWS Certification

While I was working at Classmethod, we had weekly study meetings where one of the senior members mentored us on the various AWS services. Eventually, I was given the chance to take the AWS Certified Developer – Associate, exam. I was able to pass the exam thanks to the study meetings as well as the AWS-focused day to day work that I had been doing for the company.