2015
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Portfolio Projects (5)
Chrome ExtensionUniversity of Southampton
November 2015 - January 2016
Southampton, UK
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Goal: Building a tracking and stat gathering utility for Google Chrome, applied to citizen projects such as Zooniverse.
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Formed the basis of a Chrome Extension with the goal of tracking a user’s behaviour and statistics while participating in citizen science projects, both for personal goals (statistics, time tracking) and for global statistics (important for both research and platform improvement).
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Crowdsourcing PlatformUniversity of Southampton
June 2015 - November 2015
Southampton, UK
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Goal: Applying gamification to crowdsourcing projects to observe performance changes under a different incentive other than monetary gain
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Built an image description type crowdsourcing project that relies on gamification principles to incentivise participants (match two people and have them coordinate in their description of the presented image to progress).
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- Won first place in the Startup Weekend Southampton 2014.
- A startup created at a hackathon.
- Our project was a platform to create multiplayer games which used multiple devices to create one single game canvas (eg. play ping-pong on a canvas that stretched between two smartphones).
- Won the Summerhacks Hackathon in Timișoara in 2013.
- Automated software management / installer for Raspberry Pi’s.
- Useful for remote installation of software / deletion / activation on a Raspberry Pi connected to the internet.
- A web-based WebGL physics simulator. Was abandoned at that time for lack of technology performance.
Experience (3)
Temporary AssistantUniversity of Southampton
June 2015 - February 2016
Southampton, UK
- I have worked as a temporary worker under Dr. Elena Simperl of the University of Southampton’s Web and Internet Science group, participating in two projects, detailed above, under Academic Projects.
Director of Events & Head of SpawnFish on Toast
2014 - 2015
Southampton, UK
- I have started off as one of the two directors of events for the Fish on Toast student society of the University of Southampton.
- Organised several events for the Society, ranging from speaker events to business workshops.
- Represented the society in several national conferences and events.
- Picked up a broken program and brought it to the point in which it can be successfully re-launched for next year, while providing next year’s committee with a good amount of applicants and traction.
- Built the new website of the society, as well as trying to involve the whole committee in the society’s web presence, and optimising this important part.
Director of HackathonsHackaSoton
2014 - 2015
Southampton, UK
- I was elected as the director of Hackathons for the HackaSoton student society of the University of Southampton.
- Collaborated with the whole committee board and volunteers in organising and coordinating a major, international hackathon (HackaSoton Global)
- Gave several talks / seminars on tech subjects to HackaSoton members and University of Southampton students.
- Brought sponsors and speakers / judges for our hackathons.
Education (1)
B.Sc. in Computer ScienceUniversity of Southampton
Southampton, UK
2013 - 2016