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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 |
| 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Certificates
| Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) | ||
| Cisco | 2023-07-01 |
| IELTS Academic — Overall Band Score 6.5 | ||
| British Council / IDP | 2023-01-01 |
| WHO Mandatory Certificates: UN BSAFE, Cybersecurity, PSEA, Ethics in the United Nations | ||
| World Health Organization | 2023-01-01 |
| DHIS2: Introduction, Data Capture, Analysis, Customization, Events | ||
| DHIS2 | 2023-01-01 |
| Linux System Administration | ||
| 2023-01-01 |
| Building Serverless Applications in AWS | ||
| AWS | 2023-01-01 |
| Intermediate SQL | ||
| DataCamp | 2023-01-01 |
| Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python | ||
| DataCamp | 2023-01-01 |
| PY102: Data Structure B | ||
| Myanmar Data Tech | 2023-01-01 |
| Foundations of Deep Learning A+ | ||
| Myanmar Data Tech | 2023-01-01 |
| Introduction to TensorFlow for AI, ML, and Deep Learning | ||
| DeepLearning.AI | 2023-01-01 |
| Convolutional Neural Networks in TensorFlow | ||
| DeepLearning.AI | 2023-01-01 |
| NEC NCPC / NCSE | ||
| NEC | 2018-01-01 |
Publications
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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