About Me

👋🏾 Hi! I’m Tawana, a rising fourth-year Computer Science student at Carleton University specializing in AI/ML with a minor in Business. I’m passionate about building intelligent, scalable systems through experiences in cloud engineering, distributed diagnostics, and machine learning.

💻 I’ve had the opportunity to intern at Microsoft and Raven Connected, where I built distributed diagnostic engines, AI-powered agents, and vision systems for real-time compliance and analytics. I enjoy working at the intersection of machine learning, systems design, and cloud platforms to create tools that make a real-world impact.

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Experience

  • Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft

    - Designed a platform reducing root-cause analysis time for availability drops by 95%+ across global cloud infrastructure.
    - Built a distributed Python engine for anomaly detection across 100+ telemetry sources, enabling fault-tolerant diagnostics at scale.
    - Developed a LangChain-based low-code interface enabling multi-agent systems to generate diagnostic reports from natural language playbooks.

    Duration: May 2025 - July 2025

  • AI/ML Engineer Intern @ Raven Connected

    - Generated top-down semantic maps of construction zones by chaining depth estimation, segmentation, and scene classification models, facilitating compliance efforts and roadway safety enforcement.
    - Delivered high-precision speed limit recognition, including support for temporary speed limit signs, by fine-tuning object detectors on a custom dataset to enable real-time speeding alerts.
    - Built a natural language-to-SQL pipeline translating plain-English queries into MySQL, allowing support staff to self-serve analytics and reduce customer response times.

    Duration: September 2024 - Present

  • Undergraduate Teaching Assitant @ Carleton University

    - Supported 700+ students across lectures, labs, and office hours by delivering live code demos, answering technical questions, and reinforcing core concepts.
    - Led weekly live coding sessions for 75+ students and provided personalized feedback on over 60 assignments per week.

    Duration: September 2023 - April 2024

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Projects

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DataPrepML

ML pipeline & Data preprocessing tool.
(Python)

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EchoGPT

Smart AI Assistant.
(OpenAI API, React, Next JS, Firebase, Vercel)

Tawana Hondonga

iPantry

AI powered pantry tracker.
(React, NextJS, Firebase, Vercel, GCP, Gemini API)

Tawana Hondonga

iMedify

Integrated media consumption platform.
(HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Node, Express, SQLite)

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Personal Website

You're already there!
(HTML/CSS)

Tawana Hondonga

Phantom Pursuit

Multi-threaded ghost hunt simulation.
(C, Linux, Makefiles, Valgrind)

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Migraine Classification Neural Network

Classifies seven types of migraines with 93% accuracy.
(Python, TensorFlow, Pandas, Scikit-learn)

Even more...

🔍 Currently seeking Summer 2026 SWE/MLE/ML SWE internship opportunities!

💻 Technical skills:
Languages: Python; C/C++; Java; JavaScript.
ML / Deep Learning: PyTorch; TensorFlow; Keras; scikit-learn; ONNX; TFLite; OpenCV.
ML Ops / Data: Pandas; SQL (MySQL); NoSQL; Kusto (KQL); data labeling & ETL.
Cloud / DevOps: AWS; Azure; Docker; Linux; Bash; Git; CI/CD.
Frameworks / Tools: LangChain; LangGraph; Node.js; Next.js; Express; Valgrind.
Focus Areas: Computer Vision; LLM fine-tuning; Prompt Engineering; Model Optimization; Hyperparameter Tuning.

🎓 Awards:
● President’s Faculty Scholarship
● Carleton Award of Excellence for International Students
● 2x Dean’s Honour List

Tawana Hondonga