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Current role-focused CV for AI/ML Engineer, Data Scientist, AgTech, ICT4D, and mission-aligned technology opportunities.

Basics

Name Thein Kyaw Lwin
Label AI/ML Engineer & Data Scientist
Email thein.kyaw.lwin.official@gmail.com
Phone +63-991-260-5406
Url https://tklwin.github.io/
Summary AI/ML engineer and data scientist who ships production AI at the edge and in the cloud. Designed and deployed a hybrid lightweight CNN achieving 82.09% cross-domain accuracy at 0.870 MB, validated on 115 real Android devices. Built a live Gemini 2.5 Flash bilingual agricultural advisory agent on Google Cloud Run. 7+ years of field-embedded technology experience across precision agriculture, public health, and enterprise IT.

Work

  • 2023.05 - 2024.07
    IT Support Officer
    World Health Organization
    Administered DHIS2 and OpenMRS infrastructure supporting the national HIV/AIDS eHealth program for 1,000+ users, in collaboration with UNAIDS, ICAP, HISP India, and CHAI.
    • Maintained 99.99% uptime on healthcare data servers; managed user accounts, metadata, and national health data reporting workflows for on-premises and cloud-based systems
    • Designed and maintained data workflows from field data collection through national health reporting, ensuring data accuracy, traceability, and compliance with UN governance standards
    • Led user onboarding, IT asset management, and cybersecurity initiatives; collaborated with UN agencies and national health authorities on data governance and compliance standards
    • Stack: PostgreSQL · Java Tomcat · NGINX · Linux · DHIS2 · OpenMRS
  • 2020.03 - 2023.04
    Mobile Application cum IT Technician
    CESVI Myanmar
    Built and maintained end-to-end data pipelines for mobile ICT-enabled extension services reaching 130 villages and 26,234 households across Myanmar's Dry Zone.
    • Co-developed GIS dashboards and data workflows from KoBoToolbox field collection to donor reporting for 6 agriculture and rural development projects funded by UNDP, FAO, SDC, AICS, and CESVI
    • Digitized agro-advisories into mobile formats, enabling data-driven decision-making for rural farmers
    • Trained 2,000+ farmers in mobile application use and digital literacy
    • Stack: KoBoToolbox · QGIS · Looker Studio · Esper · Power BI
  • 2018.11 - 2020.02
    IT Service Engineer
    Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Delivered and commissioned 7 nationwide carrier and enterprise IT infrastructure projects for MPT, Ooredoo, Telenor, and CB Bank.
    • Maintained MPT Private Cloud operations (ECS, EVS, VPC, OceanStor); configured Eudemon 8000E firewalls, VPNs, DNAT/SNAT, and SAN zoning
    • Developed technical documentation (LLDs, HLDs, SOPs, MOPs) and trained client staff; collaborated with Huawei R&D and GTAC for SLA compliance
    • Stack: FusionCloud · FusionCube · NetEco · OpenStack · Huawei Cloud
  • 2017.09 - 2018.11
    Junior Network Engineer
    ISGM (ICT Star Group Myanmar) Co., Ltd.
    Supported NEC Japan engineers in infrastructure audits and optical network expansion across metro and national backbone networks.
    • Managed blade servers, virtualization platforms, storage systems, and Fortigate firewall configuration
    • Implemented wireless (Unifi AP), monitoring (Zabbix), and authentication (NEC SFA) systems
  • 2017.05 - 2017.08
    Junior Network Engineer (Internship)
    Netpro Myanmar Co., Ltd.
    Assisted senior engineers in deploying and configuring enterprise network infrastructure for internal systems and client projects.
    • Gained hands-on experience with VoIP (Yeastar), CCTV (Dahua, HIKVISION), GPS tracking (Teltonika), and network equipment (MikroTik, Ubiquiti)

Education

  • 2024.09 - 2026.05

    Batangas, Philippines

    Master of Science
    Batangas State University
    Data Science
    • IIE Myanmar Student Emergency Support (MSES) Fund Grantee — Institute of International Education
    • Thesis: Development of Hybrid Lightweight CNN Integrating SqueezeNet and CBAM for Edge Deployment Using Multi-Data Sources
    • Fundamentals of Data Science
    • Big Data and Cloud Computing
    • Machine Learning and Neural Networks
    • Time-Series Analysis
    • Mathematical and Computational Theories
    • Seminars in Data Science
  • 2012.12 - 2018.02

    Mandalay, Myanmar

    Bachelor of Computer Technology
    University of Computer Studies, Mandalay
    Computer Communication and Networks
    • Data Mining
    • Programming (C, C++, Java)
    • Data Structures & Algorithms
    • Systems Analysis & Design
    • DBMS
    • Networking & Security
    • Advanced Networks
    • Linear Algebra
    • Statistics
    • Embedded Systems & HCI
    • Project Management

Publications

  • 2025.01.01
    Wikipedia Web Traffic Prediction via Time Series Modeling
    Journal (Under Revision)
    Comparative study of 7 time-series forecasting models — Moving Average, Exponential Smoothing, ARMA, ARIMA, Auto-ARIMA, Prophet, and LSTM — on a 145,000-article Wikipedia Kaggle dataset. Co-authored with Prof. Sandhya Avasthi, ABES Engineering College, India.

Skills

Machine Learning & Deep Learning
Python
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Keras
Scikit-learn
SciPy
NumPy
Pandas
CNN Architecture Design
Attention Mechanisms (CBAM)
Transfer Learning
Cross-domain Generalization
INT8 Quantization
Ablation Study Design
Grad-CAM
Statistical Validation
Generative AI & LLM Integration
Google Gemini API (2.5 Flash)
Vertex AI
Application Default Credentials
LLM Prompt Engineering
FastAPI
Google Cloud Run
Web Speech API
Gemini CLI
MLOps & Experiment Tracking
Weights & Biases (WandB)
Kaggle Notebooks (NVIDIA P100/T4)
LiteRT Conversion
INT8 Quantization Pipeline
Google AI Edge Portal
GitHub Codespaces
ptflops
Mobile Development
Kotlin
Jetpack Compose
Material Design 3
Android SDK
TFLite Interpreter API
Data & Analytics
R
SQL
Power BI
Looker Studio
QGIS
Excel
SPSS
Orange Data Mining
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS
GCP
Azure
Huawei Cloud
OpenStack
VMware
Docker
Microsoft 365
Google Workspace
Networking & Security
Cisco
MikroTik
Huawei
FortiGate
Linux System Administration
Windows Server Administration
Zabbix
Remote Support
Data Collection & Management
KoBoToolbox
Roboflow
DHIS2
OpenMRS
GIS Dashboards
Field Data Pipelines
Cohen's Kappa Annotation Workflows
ICT4D & eHealth Platforms
DHIS2
OpenMRS
KoBoToolbox
Esper Android DevOps
Digital Advisory Services
Rural Extension Workflows
Professional Competencies
Capacity Building
Cross-cultural Communication
Stakeholder Engagement
Training & Facilitation
Field Deployment
Adaptability

Languages

Burmese
Native speaker
English
Full Working Proficiency (IELTS 6.5)

Interests

Precision Agriculture
Plant Disease Detection
Edge AI
Smallholder Farmers
AI/ML for Social Good
Food Security
SDG 1
SDG 2
Underserved Communities
ICT4D
Digital Public Goods
Open Source
Rural Development

Projects

  • 2026.01 - 2026.05
    Shwe Taungthuu — Myanmar Agricultural Advisory Agent
    AI-powered bilingual agricultural advisory app for Myanmar farmers. Built with Google Gemini 2.5 Flash via Vertex AI; Python + FastAPI backend deployed on Google Cloud Run. Presented at Google Developers Community Build with AI MMDT 2026.
    • Burmese voice and text input with structured advisory responses in real time
    • Voice History feature for replay of original queries — designed for low-literacy, field-usability contexts
    • Keyless cloud authentication via Application Default Credentials (ADC)
  • 2024.09 - 2026.05
    Chickpea Fusarium Wilt Detector
    MSc thesis research — hybrid lightweight CNN for on-device plant disease detection. Fully offline bilingual Android app (English + Myanmar Unicode) for smallholder farmers. Full methodology reserved for upcoming publications.
    • 82.09% cross-domain accuracy at 0.870 MB; validated on 115 real Android devices via Google AI Edge Portal
    • Worst-case inference: 73.7 ms on low-tier CPU-only hardware (Android 9.0+, 2 GB RAM compatible)
    • Personally collected field dataset from Myanmar farming communities with expert agronomist annotation
  • 2025.01 - 2025.06
    Bean Disease Classification via Stepwise CNN Fine-Tuning
    Benchmarked 5 pretrained CNN architectures; designed a stepwise fine-tuning strategy achieving 98.86% test accuracy on a combined bean leaf disease dataset.
    • Identified ResNet50 as optimal backbone through systematic comparative evaluation
    • Stepwise layer unfreezing to adapt ImageNet representations to the plant disease domain
  • 2025.01 - 2025.12
    Wikipedia Web Traffic Prediction via Time Series Modeling
    Research paper under revision comparing 7 time-series forecasting models on a 145,000-article Wikipedia Kaggle dataset.
    • Evaluated Moving Average, Exponential Smoothing, ARMA, ARIMA, Auto-ARIMA, Prophet, and LSTM using RMSE
    • Identified Moving Average as the best-performing model, showing simpler statistical approaches outperformed LSTM on this task
    • Co-authored with Prof. Sandhya Avasthi, ABES Engineering College, India
  • 2025.01 - 2025.12
    MMDT Intro to Deep Learning Course Projects
    Four progressive projects covering tabular regression, NLP classification, CNN benchmarking, and transformer-based geocoding. Completed with A+ grade.
    • Fine-tuned BERT-multilingual, DistilBERT-multilingual, and XLM-RoBERTa on 610,509 Myanmar addresses for coordinate regression
    • Deployed A2C live demo on Hugging Face Spaces with Streamlit, Plotly maps, and kilometer-level error comparison
    • Built HDB resale price prediction with MLP regression achieving R2=0.92 and RMSE=SGD 59,051
  • 2025.01 - 2026.05
    ML Algorithms from Scratch
    5 classical ML algorithms implemented from first principles using NumPy — no sklearn for core logic. MSDS coursework covering formula derivation, manual computation, and validation on real datasets.
    • Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, KNN, Naive Bayes — each with step-by-step written explanation and figures
    • Naive Bayes 90.00% (Iris), KNN Best k=5 at 72.73% (Pima Indians), Decision Tree Train 78.57% / Test 71.05% (Iris)
  • 2024.10 - 2024.12
    Loan Approval Prediction using Machine Learning
    MSDS coursework project building machine learning workflows to improve loan approval accuracy and reduce manual decision bias.
    • Compared Logistic Regression, Random Forest, SVM, Gradient Boosting, and Decision Tree with 10-fold cross-validation
    • Best model: Logistic Regression with Accuracy 0.811 and AUC 0.757
    • Identified credit history and applicant income as key drivers, with limited impact from demographic features
  • 2024.10 - 2024.12
    Python-Powered Data Cleaning with Pandas, NumPy and Dask
    Scalable data cleaning coursework project transforming raw, inconsistent datasets into analysis-ready data for big data systems.
    • Implemented median imputation, duplicate removal, and IQR-based outlier detection
    • Benchmarked Pandas vs Dask on large datasets including a 2.16 GB Toxic Release Inventory dataset
    • Validated downstream improvements with regression metrics and exploratory visualizations