Elias Fatine
Aspiring  Software Engineer

🚀 About

I am Elias Fatine, a Computer Science student at the University of Ottawa with professional experience building and maintaining production systems in large-scale government environments. My focus areas include backend development, cloud-native systems, and applied machine learning, with an emphasis on performance, reliability, and clean system design.

🎓 Education

Honours Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
University of Ottawa
📍 Ottawa, ON, Canada
📆 09/2022 – 04/2026

🏆 Awards:

  • Xerox Canada Inc. Scholarship
  • uOttawa Merit Scholarship 2020/2021
  • uOttawa Engineering Scholarship

📚 Relevant Coursework:
Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, Data Structures and Algorithms, Databases, Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Advanced Programming Concepts in C++, Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems

🤝 Extracurriculars:
Co-VP of Development, uOttawa Telfer Business Technology Association

💼 Work Experience

Junior Software Developer

🏢 Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
📍 Ottawa, ON, Canada
📆 05/2024 – Present

  • Architected and delivered 30+ custom CRM plugins using .NET and C#, integrating Azure cloud services ☁️ to automate business logic and reduce manual processing by 30%.
  • Optimized Azure SQL queries supporting ERP and CRM integrations, reducing latency for high-traffic database calls.
  • Developed accessible, high-performance frontend components using custom JavaScript, ensuring 100% compliance with accessibility standards and business requirements.
  • Owned 15+ user stories in an Agile environment, managing the full lifecycle from requirements analysis through CI/CD deployment using Azure DevOps 🔁.

Software Testing and Quality Assurance Intern

🏢 Financial Consumer Agency of Canada
📍 Ottawa, ON, Canada
📆 01/2024 – 05/2024

  • Improved release velocity within an Agile Scrum framework by identifying testing bottlenecks during sprint planning and ensuring 100% test coverage for high-priority user stories.
  • Directed end-to-end testing cycles including regression and UAT for ServiceNow releases, reducing post-deployment defects by 25% through edge-case analysis and requirement validation.
  • Analyzed and validated custom ServiceNow configurations including Business Rules and Client Scripts, performing root-cause analysis on JavaScript defects to streamline developer feedback loops.

🧠 Projects

ScamShield – AI Powered Scam Email Detector 🤖

  • Engineered a hybrid detection ensemble combining Sentence-BERT semantic embeddings with lexical features.
  • Achieved 99% precision using a Random Forest meta-classifier.
  • Integrated LIME for model explainability, generating keyword-level risk heatmaps to provide transparent and interpretable predictions.

Microsoft Azure OpenAI Hackathon ☁️

  • Led development of an AI-powered chatbot using Azure OpenAI services to streamline document retrieval and metadata tagging.
  • Reduced document search time by approximately 35% across multiple file types.
  • Enhanced discovery of relationships within large datasets stored on CMHC’s SharePoint platform.

Grimpeur Cycling Club – Software Engineering Project 🚴

  • Designed and implemented an Android application for a cycling club as part of a software engineering course.
  • Built secure local data storage using SQLite and Java, supporting a community of 100+ cyclists.
  • Applied software engineering best practices including modular design, version control, and requirements-driven development.

🛠️ Skills

Programming Languages:
Python, JavaScript, Java, C#, SQL, HTML, CSS, TypeScript, C, C++, Go, Rust

Spoken Languages:
Fluent in English and French 🌍

Technologies and Tools:
Git, React, Linux, MongoDB, Spring, JUnit, Bash, IntelliJ, Visual Studio, Node.js, Eclipse, Next.js, Postman, Bruno, Azure, Azure DevOps, scikit-learn, pandas

Certifications:
AZ-900, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals 📜

🎯 Interests

I am passionate about software systems, cloud infrastructure, and applied artificial intelligence. Outside of technical work, I enjoy snowboarding 🏂, music 🎧, playing guitar 🎸, and continuously exploring new technologies.