Arslan Ashraf

Student - Computer Science(Machine Learning)

Hi! My name is Arslan. I have self studied computer science for over 10,000 hours across 9 years. For financial and other reasons, I did not attend college but I still studied many of the same tradional subjects in computer science with a specialization in machine learning.
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AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty

GCP Professional Machine Learning Engineer

Projects

Project MLOps: Data Science Workflow + Kubeflow Pipeline on Google Cloud Platform with Continuous Training, Continuous Deployment
Project Large Language Model: A (small) Causal Large Language Model from Scratch in Tensorflow to Auto Generate Python Code
Project Tiny Tensorflow: A Tiny Deep Learning Framework from Scratch with Reverse-Mode Differentiation

Blog Posts

Basic Tensorflow Model Deployment on Google Kubernetes Engine with Tensorflow Serving
Exploratory Data Analysis on Google Big Query using SQL, Pandas, and Matplotlib
How to Rigorously Evaluate an ML Model
Docker Best Practices for Machine Learning
Understanding the Financial Value and ROI of Machine Learning
Understanding Apache Spark's Query Execution Plans
ML Job Guide: Let's Scrape ML Jobs on Linkedin to Find out What Companies Want

Education

I learned predominantly by reading textbooks on mathematics and computer science. I have now read most of the seminal college textbooks on the subjects of machine learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning. I generally read the entire textbook but sometimes I might skip parts of a book if I have already learned the same material from elsewhere. Below is an incomplete list of books I have worked through.

Mathematics

Computer Science

Took the following Coursera Specializations:

Machine Learning Specialization

Deep Learning Specialization

Reinforcement Learning Specialization

Machine Learning Engineering for Production (MLOps) Specialization

Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Machine Learning Engineer