Closed-Loop Control
PID tuningSensor feedback loopsTrajectory correctionFlood-fill path planning
EvidenceMicroMouse robot
Available for new opportunities · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Ahmed Zubaidia
Controls & Automation · Computer Engineering Graduate · Edmonton, AB
PID control · embedded real-time systems · industrial computer vision
AWSPartner Tech.
Controls & Automation
Industrial Controls & Automation
Closed-loop control, real-time embedded systems, and industrial data pipelines.
Real-Time Embedded Systems
ESP32FreeRTOS task schedulingI2C / SPI / UARTSignal conditioningPIC assembly
EvidenceEmbedded IoT Smart Systems
SCADA & Industrial Software
In progress — 2026Ignition (Inductive Automation)Tag architectureHistorian & alarmingPython scripting for control logic
EvidenceProject in progress — link to follow
Experience
Controls, embedded systems, and production software.
Filter to focus on software / QA work, or on operations and community leadership. Field and trades roles have their own page.
Aug 2026 — PresentField & Trades
Reinforcing Ironworker (Rodman, 1st Year) — Ironworkers Local 720
AGF Reinforcing Inc · Edmonton, AB · field
- Reinforcing steel placement on a major Edmonton transit infrastructure project.
- Reading and executing structural shop drawings: bar mark schedules, spacing, lap lengths, and cage assembly to spec.
- Building the site experience that supports the controls and instrumentation path.
Sep 2025 — PresentField & Trades
Independent Contractor / Driver
Self-Employed · Edmonton, AB · field
- Independent contractor operating in Edmonton since Sep 2025 — ~1,500 trips, zero at-fault incidents, Alberta Class 4 commercial licence.
Jun 2025 — Aug 2025Software & QA
Quality Assurance & Program Assistant (Technical Intern)
Islamic Family and Social Services Association (IFSSA) · Edmonton, AB · on-site
- Engineered an AI-powered QA automation platform in Python integrating Playwright, Tesseract OCR, and OpenAI GPT-4o to autonomously navigate Single-Page Applications, capture full-page state, and validate extracted text.
- Architected a GPT-driven analysis roadmap (DOM crawling, locator ranking, test-sheet exports, CI nightly regression runs) that increased throughput and reduced flaky failures.
- Implemented structured logging, retry logic, and failure-state capture for reproducible, auditable diagnostic runs.
- Authored and delivered an end-to-end Arduino robotics curriculum (lesson plans, slides, hands-on builds, printable handouts); achieved 90% positive feedback from campers.
- Designed a bilingual (English/Arabic) Summer Camp journal in Canva, distributed to 50+ campers and families.
- Coordinated logistics for a newcomer youth summer camp supporting 50+ daily participants with structured shift handovers.
Jul 2024 — Oct 2024Software & QA
Backend Developer Intern
Thrivve (ثرايف) · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · remote
- Engineered backend user-management features and RESTful APIs with secure authentication and authorization, shipping phased weekly releases.
- Orchestrated third-party service integrations via cron jobs for scheduled summaries — improved debugging efficiency 35% and cut issue response time 20% with zero downtime.
- Implemented Marshmallow-based data validation and migrated services to cloud, yielding +25% data consistency, −40% validation errors, +30% performance, 2× scale, and −20% infrastructure cost.
- Built custom CI/CD pipelines on GitHub Actions and Docker, sustaining deployment integrity across a distributed engineering team.
- Designed, configured, and managed scalable backend databases supporting reliable production data flows.
- Authored Postman API test suites and documentation; practiced systematic Python debugging in production conditions.
Jan 2023 — Dec 2023Field & TradesVolunteer
Engineering Bootcamp Organizer
Birzeit University · Birzeit, Palestine · on-site
- Organized a skill-enhancement bootcamp for 100+ engineering students, including visual materials and hands-on training.
- Received 90% positive feedback across cohorts.
Jan 2022 — Dec 2023Field & TradesVolunteer
Lead Organizer
TEDx Birzeit · Birzeit, Palestine · on-site
- Coordinated 20 speakers and 50+ volunteers across a multi-day TEDx event.
- Led multi-stakeholder communications and on-site safety logistics, improving event flow and engagement by 20%.
Jan 2018 — Dec 2019Field & TradesVolunteer
Logistics Coordinator
AMIDEAST Education Abroad · Palestine · on-site
- Managed logistics for AMIDEAST ceremonies and events.
- Optimized resource allocation and improved audio fidelity by 25%.
Field and trades experience, Alberta safety tickets, and ICT apprenticeship registration → /field
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Credentials
Verified credentials, evaluations, and licences.
Every credential listed is currently held; expiries are shown where applicable. Alberta safety tickets are listed on the field page.
Medical & First Aid
Active life-support and advanced first-aid certifications.
Intermediate First Aid with CPR-C & AED
St Mark James Training (Workplace Health & Safety standard)
Reg 45763 / AB
View PDFIssued: 2026-06-21
Expires: 2029-06-21
First Responder (81-Hour Advanced)
Palestine Red Crescent Society
View PDFIssued: 2024-01
First Aid (21-Hour Course)
Palestine Red Crescent Society
View PDFIssued: 2023-10
Credential Evaluations
Independent third-party recognition of foreign credentials in Canada.
IQAS Assessment - Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering
Government of Alberta (IQAS)
View PDFIssued: Dec 2025
IQAS Assessment - Certificate of General Secondary Education
Government of Alberta (IQAS)
View PDFIssued: Sep 2025
WES Course-by-Course Evaluation (ICAP)
World Education Services (WES)
Ref# B262JY6A8E
Issued: Completed July 19, 2026
APEGA Member-in-Training — Application Under Review
Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta
Issued: Submitted July 2026 · in review
The Engineering Stack
From silicon to cloud, one stack.
Five publicly published GitHub repositories, each living at a different abstraction layer — from MIPS assembly up through POSIX concurrency, embedded IoT firmware, technical documentation, and GPU-accelerated computer vision. Scroll the stack.
Cloud · AI · Vision
Advanced Computer Vision & Data Pipelines
GPU-accelerated PyTorch on NVIDIA L4 / T4, multimodal video retrieval (CLIP + mPLUG-Owl), and end-to-end Pandas wrangling — the AI-layer ceiling of the stack.
PyTorchCUDACLIPmPLUG-OwlPandas
Open repositoryL5 · github
Engineering Documentation
Hardware & Systems Documentation
Six curated engineering reports — Arduino + UART + I2C interfacing, RLC transient response, active / passive filters, Fourier + SSB modulation — published as a technical-writing portfolio.
Technical WritingArduinoI2C / UARTMATLABMultisim
Open repositoryL4 · github
Embedded Firmware · IoT
Embedded IoT Smart Systems — ESP32
Full IoT vertical: FreeRTOS task scheduling, Blynk cloud control, I2C 16x2 LCD, four LED actuators — Simon-Says memory game with a hardware-bench demo video.
ESP32Arduino C++FreeRTOSBlynk IoTI2C
Open repositoryL3 · github
Operating Systems · IPC
POSIX Concurrent Systems Lab
Five-process supermarket simulation over shmget / sem_open + a pthreads intruder-detection prototype — published with embedded .git/, .idea/, and Linux ELF binaries scrubbed.
CPOSIXpthreadsShared MemoryNamed Semaphores
Open repositoryL2 · github
Assembly · ISA · Silicon
MIPS Assembly — Medical Records CRUD
~2,900 lines of MIPS32 assembly: ten-option menu, file-I/O via syscalls 13 / 14 / 15 / 16, IEEE-754 thresholds via c.lt.s / c.le.s, 1024-byte buffered scans — the bare metal of the stack.
MIPS AssemblyMARSSyscall I/OIEEE-754
Open repositoryL1 · github
Every layer links to a real public repository — code reviewed, README written, security scrubbed, co-author consent verified before push.
Engineering Skill Tree
Two stacks, one background.
Every leaf is a real public GitHub repo — hover (or tap) for a preview, click to open the source.
RootAhmed ZubaidiaComputer Engineering Graduate
Branch
Artificial Intelligence
Vision · Language · Models
Branch
Hardware & Computer Architecture
VLSI · Embedded · Low-Level
Branch
Applied Engineering
Security · Systems · Communication
Featured Projects
From closed-loop control to multimodal AI.
A curated set of engineering work spanning controls and robotics, real-time embedded systems, computer vision, and production software. Hover any card to reveal the stack.
Embedded2024Controls & Robotics
PID ControlLiDAR (ToF)IR SensorsFlood-Fill Path PlanningReal-Time EmbeddedArduino/ESP32
Autonomous MicroMouse — Closed-Loop Navigation Robot
Autonomous maze-solving robot built around a closed-loop PID control system. Time-of-flight LiDAR and IR sensors feed real-time wall detection into a flood-fill path-planning algorithm, with tuned proportional, integral, and derivative terms driving differential motor control for stable trajectory correction.
Controls & Embedded Engineer · Birzeit University
Embedded IoT Smart Systems — ESP32 Firmware
Full-stack IoT firmware on an ESP32 — FreeRTOS task scheduling, Blynk cloud control, and an I2C LCD drive a 20-level Simon-Says memory game with rotated credentials and a public demo video.
Firmware Engineer · Birzeit University
Embedded2024Operating Systems / Real-Time Systems
CPOSIX IPCpthreadsShared MemoryNamed SemaphoresOpenGL / GLUT+1
POSIX Concurrent Systems Lab
OS-level C work exercising the full POSIX concurrency stack — a five-process supermarket simulation with a live OpenGL / GLUT renderer alongside a multithreaded intruder-detection prototype built on pthreads.
Systems Engineer · Prof. Hanna Bullata · Birzeit University
Content-Based Video Retrieval (Multimodal AI)
End-to-end multimodal retrieval pipeline linking natural-language queries to video content using CLIP embeddings and automated scene captioning.
Lead Engineer · Dr. Aziz Qaroush · Birzeit University
Advanced CV & Data Pipelines
A comprehensive suite of GPU-accelerated computer vision models and complex data wrangling pipelines developed during advanced academic research.
ML Engineer · Birzeit University
Embedded2022–2024Hardware & Systems Documentation Portfolio
Six formal engineering lab reports curated as a public technical-writing portfolio — spanning microcontroller interfacing (Arduino + UART + I2C), digital and analog electronics, signals and systems, and communications.
Technical Writer / Lab Author · Birzeit University
AQQA / DevOps
Production Tool (IFSSA)
PythonPlaywrightTesseract OCROpenAI GPT-4oGitHub Actions
AI-Powered QA Automation Platform
Automated UI testing pipeline for a complex SPA — drives navigation, captures full-page state, extracts text via OCR, and validates with LLM assistance.
Architect & Engineer
Trackifire — Personal Productivity Platform
Personal study and productivity platform tracking learning progress, study hours, and consistency through centralized dashboards.
Solo Founder / Full-Stack Engineer
QA / DevOps2025Automation / API Integration
TaskerJavaScriptOpenAI GPT-4o-miniGoogle Maps APITelegram Bot APIRegex
Autonomous Dispatch Engine
Automated rideshare analytics system using UI scraping, JavaScript, and APIs (Google Maps, Telegram, OpenAI) to calculate net profitability in real-time.
Solo Builder
MAEmbedded
MIPS Assembly — Medical Records Management
~2,900-line MIPS32 assembly program implementing a full CRUD application for patient medical-test records, with file I/O via MIPS syscalls and IEEE-754 floating-point math for threshold checks and averages.
Systems Engineer · Birzeit University
Handwriting Detection (SIFT / ORB Feature Extraction)
Classical computer-vision pipeline that detects and identifies user handwriting using SIFT and ORB feature extractors.
ML Engineer · Birzeit University
Tech Stack & Skills
Categorized inventory of every tool on the bench.
Controls and automation first, then the embedded, software, and data stack behind it.
Industrial Controls & Automation
PID Control Loops & Loop TuningClosed-Loop Feedback SystemsSensor Integration & TransducersSignal ConditioningLiDAR / Time-of-Flight SensingReal-Time Path PlanningIndustrial Communication Protocols (I2C / SPI / UART / Modbus)SCADA FundamentalsMachine Vision for Inspection
Embedded & Real-Time Systems
ESP32FreeRTOSPIC AssemblyLiDAR (ToF)IR SensorsPID ControlFlood Fill Path PlanningDigital Signal ProcessingComputer ArchitectureOperating Systems (Linux/Unix)Hardware Fault DetectionElectromechanical Assembly
Programming Languages
PythonJavaCSQLTypeScriptHTMLCSSBASIC
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Computer VisionDeep LearningSupervised / Unsupervised LearningNatural Language ProcessingMultimodal AICLIP (ViT-B/32)mPLUG-OwlGPT-4oBERTWord2VecTF-IDFscikit-learnTensorFlowRandom ForestLogistic Regressionk-NNHyperparameter TuningCosine SimilarityHSV Histogram Analysis
Cloud, DevOps & Tooling
AWS (Partner Technical)Microsoft Azure (AI-900)DockerGitGitHub ActionsCI/CD PipelinesLinux (multithreading & multiprocessing)
Backend & Frameworks
FlaskREST API DesignJWT AuthenticationMarshmallowCron Job OrchestrationMicroservice Integration
Quality Assurance & Automation
PlaywrightTesseract OCRGPT-Driven QA RoadmapsDOM CrawlingLocator RankingCI Nightly RegressionPostmanStructured LoggingRetry LogicFailure-State Capture
Data Analytics & Reporting
Excel-Based AnalysisStructured ReportingData ValidationDashboard DesignKPI AnalysisDocumentation ReviewEngagement Analytics
Frontend & Mobile
Next.jsReactTailwind CSSHTMLCSSAndroid (Java)FlutterUI/UX DesignAccessibilityCanva (Advanced)
Soft & Professional Skills
Stakeholder CommunicationCross-Functional CollaborationTechnical DocumentationSystematic TroubleshootingIndependent Field OperationsAgile / Sprint DeliveryBilingual (Arabic / English)Mentorship & Curriculum Design
Software & AI Evidence
Supporting evidence from the software / AI track.
A multimodal video-retrieval capstone, hands-on AI and robotics field work, and the AMIDEAST program that shaped the language and leadership foundation behind both.
Senior Capstone · Birzeit University
Content-Based Video Retrieval — A Multimodal Approach
Feb 2025 · Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering · Supervised by Dr. Aziz Qaroush
A retrieval framework that matches natural-language queries to videos by fusing CLIP visual embeddings with mPLUG-Owl captions, then refining queries through GPT-3.5 Turbo augmentation. Evaluated on MSVD and MSR-VTT with measurable gains over single-modality baselines.
How the system works
Key Technical Insights
- Developed a Multi-Modal Video Retrieval Framework combining visual and textual features, query augmentation, and advanced ranking strategies.
- Proved that multi-modal approaches significantly outperform single-modality systems by utilizing visual embeddings enhanced by caption-based textual embeddings.
- Analyzed frame extraction strategies (uniform down-sampling vs. scene-based segmentation) and matched them to dataset complexity (MSVD vs. MSR-VTT).
- Implemented Query Augmentation using GPT-3.5 Turbo to bridge user phrasing differences and improve retrieval accuracy across MSVD and MSR-VTT benchmarks.
Engineering in Practice
Hands-on with Robotics, ROS, and Computer Vision.
Access Program · GraduationAMIDEAST · U.S. Embassy Jerusalem
English Access Micro-scholarship Program
2017 — Jul 2019
The Access Program offers two years of English language instruction and additional workshops that introduce youth to American culture, community service, and career-enhancement resources. The curriculum strengthens English speaking, writing, listening, and reading skills, while extracurricular activities build leadership skills and promote personal development.
Program Components · 360 Instructional Hours
- English language instruction
- Public speaking training
- Cultural enrichment and development of leadership skills
- Community service activities
Beyond the Desk
Volunteer & Community Involvement
Giving time to community and youth-focused events around Edmonton — hands-on, people-first work that complements the engineering track.
CWSF · Edmonton 2026Event Volunteer · Edmonton, AB
Canada-Wide Science Fair (CWSF)
May 2026
Assisted with large-scale event logistics, crowd direction, and participant support. Demonstrated strong teamwork, physical stamina, and engaging communication skills to ensure a seamless and positive experience for attendees.
Contributions
- Large-scale event logistics and setup support
- Crowd direction and attendee flow management
- Participant support and on-the-ground assistance
- Teamwork and engaging communication across long event days