Valerie Stoica

Software Engineering Intern

Shopify

Jun 2025 - Current (1 year 4 months)

Fall 2025 Shopify Intern

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Untether AI

Jan 2025 - May 2025 (5 months)

• Engineered end-to-end, high-throughput object-detection pipelines in Python and C++, achieving 1,300 FPS on the UntetherAI accelerator.
• Extracted and subgraphed ONNX graphs for 15+ CNNs (e.g. YOLOv11, ResNet-50), isolating unsupported operators to enable full on-chip execution.
• Implemented streaming quantization/dequantization callbacks to handle unsupported data formats at the host–device boundary.
• Developed a modular object-detection framework to standardize demo development across diverse models, simplifying maintenance and accelerating new-model onboarding.
• Automated COCO-style mAP evaluation with pycocotools and built TorchVision visualization tools overlaying bounding boxes and scores for rapid quantitati

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Machine Learning Research Assistant

Aug 2024 - Jun 2025 (11 months)

• Developed an AI-driven nutritional tracking platform using Next.js, TypeScript, and Gradio for elderly patient care.
• Contributed to 2D/3D data collection and segmentation for food intake scenes, achieving over 95% accuracy in dietary intake analysis.
• Recognized at the CVPR conference for contributions to computer vision and pattern recognition.

Software Programmer

Government of Canada

Apr 2024 - Aug 2024 (5 months)

• Reduced cloud infrastructure costs by 15% through refactoring redundant API endpoints using Azure DevOps.
• Implemented best practices in code optimization and debugging, enhancing system stability and user satisfaction.
• Produced comprehensive documentation, including C4 Model system diagrams with Microsoft Visio and Lucidchart.

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Fullstack Developer

Jan 2023 - Apr 2024 (1 year 4 months)

Developing a statistics application to aggregate data on employment trends. The platform aims to be interactive to allow economic actors to finely explore their city through data updated in real-time, compiled through web-scraping, and thus to be better informed in decision-making on their projects.
• Efficiently built five large-scale web applications in Next.js for universities (HEC Montréal, Université de Montréal), municipalities (Mauricie, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), and the company’s new AI services (SaaS)
• Completed all aforementioned projects as the sole front-end developer, increasing prospective client engagement with the company
• Employed TypeScript for its robustness, ensuring a more reliable and maintainable cod

uOttawa Engineering Outreach Instructor

University of Ottawa

Jun 2022 - Aug 2022 (3 months)

- Delivered immersive Engineering workshops to teenagers and children, teaching software and hardware skills - Instructed students to code games in Python such as Hangman, Ping-Pong, drawing activities (.TURTLE) - Introduced basic web design concepts using HTML, CSS, JS to students as an extension to the curriculum - Prepared code individually before start of workshops and made slideshows to teach programming concepts - Fused design skills (3D modelling in TinkerCAD, Epilog laser-cutting) and hardware skills (soldering) - Earned a great reputation among students’ parents, with many emailing to commend the University Show less

Private Mathematics Tutor

Self-employed

Oct 2020 - May 2022 (1 year 8 months)

- Top recommended Mathematics tutor at Colonel By Secondary School - Provided private assistance and lessons every day at lunch-hour, raising grades by 20% for many students - Created walk-through solutions and tutorial videos for the Mathematics Department, still used post-graduation

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