While I did end up 'owning' the entire codebase of the projects below, they often were collaborative efforts. Therefore collaborators are duly given credit below each project description.
- Testing our loan scheduling algorithm (math-heavy scipy-calculations) with pytest and serving it over an API with fastapi
Credits: Gaurav Singhal, Lawrence E. Day
- A react & typescript frontend and a GraphQL backend for a credit-union as a service platform. Activities included onboarding, requesting loans, and participating as a lender in a lending pool. Check out this demo video:
Credits: Gaurav Paruthi
{view source} - A simple backend & smart-contracts to capture loan-data on the Algorand Chain, by creating an Algorand-Standard-Asset according to ARC-3 standard for each loan and logging corresponding repayment data. Also, I integrated our credit union platform with Circle APIs to allow FIAT deposits and withdrawals. and used the AlgoConnect Wallet to allow USDC deposits from both Ethereum & Algorand.
- A front- and backend for invoice financing pilot in rural India, to allow selected small business to extend credit-lines to their best customers. Credit was given against shipments of goods, which we verified and tracked by integrating with our logistics company's API.
- Smart Contract Assessment system for fathom.org consisting of
- a concept-tree to organize related areas of knowledge
- a staked schelling game to determine who should get a certificate (aka become member of a concept)
- An ERC-20 Token that would be minted (or burned) by completing assessment-games (nerd-summary!
Credits: Jared Pereira
{view source} - Contributions to Ethereum's solidity compiler (C++): I completed a a new way of exporting the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) of a program to a JSON-file and also added an import-from-json feature, that allows to re-import the AST into the compiler. This is useful for tools that want to manipulate code at a more syntactic level e.g. a mutation testing frameworks that wants to change a random comparison operator and see whether the test-suite catches it.
Credits: Christian Reitwiessner, Alex Beregszaszi
{View source: [export, ast-import] } - A Snapshotted Voting Tool for equity-tokens. Token-holders can vote on proposals proportional to their balance at the time of the proposal submission.
Credits: Marcin Rudolf
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The future is technical. And while I see coding as my profession, I also do it as a hobby.
- A book recommendation engine for my friends and familiy so that they can browse my favorites and get recommendations based on what they are looking for. I plan to extend this to allow anyone to create their own bookshelf and to include tags, reads, comments, etc in the future. Go check it out!
(Also, I want to implement this with a different stack to dive into svelte and learn more GraphQL)
- I like to play around with Microcontrollers and LEDs. Coding so close to the metal (C++) and actually having to worry whether my trippy LED animation will fit in memory is great.
Credits: Sebastian Schmid, Felix
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I didn't spend a lot of time doing actual research as I left Uni right after my masters, but I did one thing that I'm proud of. In my thesis I explored how to identify interesting directions for evolutionary algorithms when controlling robots. The overarching problem was that when a task is really difficult (e.g. walking), then the first steps to solving it (e.g. maintaining balance) do not necessarily look like the final solution. Broadly speaking, my thesis was that diversity is interesting and entropy is useful to measure it.
So without further ado, here is a video of robots trying to walk:
Credits: Joel Lehman, Paulo Urbano, Oliver Brock
I feel most comfortable writing technically or scientifically, but can also write an occasional blog post or article that are meant to be accessable to a wider audience. Check
- my thesis for an example of scientific writing.
- the documentation of this blockchain education platform for an example of technical writing.
- my medium account for some blog examples.