optimizing my life, and others
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<aside> 👷‍♂️ Work Experience
Incoming Software Engineer Intern
Worked directly under the CIO of the largest retailer in Cyprus, where I worked on a few things
****Took the old website of the oldest collegiate literary magazine in the United States (est. 1866) and built it from scratch with React.
Decreased website bounce rate by 20%, annual visitors up by 20k.
Introduced the Advocate merch shop that generates $$$, helped design materials, built Shopify + delivery infrastructure.
Set up alumni mailing list infrastructure so that the org can keep in touch with 1000+ alums
Before/After
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Before đź”˝
After đź”˝
Worked at Meta during my freshman year summer, as part of the Meta University program. Built a privacy-first period tracking app, “Hera”, in the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned.
Design Philosophy
Local Data Processing
hera uses on-device machine learning using Apple’s CoreML to predict period cycles
Security At Every Step
hera should be subpoena and law-enforcement proof. Should be next to impossible for anyone to access sensitive health information even if they have the device unlocked
User’s Choice
user sets up privacy settings when they first start the app, with full customizability
Still A Period Tracking App
shouldn’t be annoying to use
Hera keeps all data encrypted on-device. Since there’s no backend to process your period data, the app uses on-device machine learning with CoreML to predict period cycles.
A problem that was presented from the on-device philosophy: it makes migrating your data between devices hard. The way I built around that with Hera is that you can transfer app data between devices.
quick demo of the app in its v0 stage
quick demo of the app in its v0 stage
****Served as a conscripted soldier for a year, completing my mandatory military service. Started out working as a border guard between the Republic of Cyprus and occupied Cyprus and ended as an Aide to the Chief of Defense, Lt. General Zervakis.
Worked with the general to coordinate the public-facing view of the National Guard and its leadership. Did a lot of things, namely:
High school internship. Youngest ever intern at Cyprus’ fastest growing tech company at the time. Contributed to Apache Superset (used by Twitter and Airbnb at the time) to modify it for a client’s needs, and built a prototype of a customer valuation tool.
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<aside> 🛠️ Projects
Decades & Passportly
Games made for my best friends who are obsessed with NYT Connections, Wordle, and their derivatives.
Decades: group the headlines by the decade in which they were published
Passportle: Wordle-like game for guessing which country the passport is for
AskGeorge
Wanted to explore my interest in finance + LLMs, so I went to a banking hackathon and built an AI powered financial advisor.
AskGeorge is an AI financial advisor that knows everything about your financial life, can help you plan saving goals, and helps you keep track of where your money is going. It integrates with banking API’s to seamlessl
Loved working & learning new tech, like enabling GPT4 to retrieve relevant, personal context (thus giving it access to a ton of data). Due to this context retrieval system (powered by LlamaIndex), AskGeorge can store data about your goals, your spending, bank statements, as well as have access to a ton of "financial self help" books that it can refer to
Beautiful Academic Portfolio Template
Academic portfolio websites tend to be really ugly, and I couldn’t bring myself to use one to build a portfolio website for my dad. So I built a beautiful one, and decided to turn it into a template that anyone can use and configure.
The goal was to make a template that someone with no coding experience could set up and start using. As it stands, setup + hosting it on Firebase takes about ~5 minutes. It comes with Sanity CMS, so all the content you want to put on the website can easily be added through a web interface.
You can check out a demo here
And the repo (with the template guide in the README)
CommunityHero
At the beginning of the pandemic, my grandmother was scared of going grocery shopping. Trying to teach her how to order online didn’t help — she could beat me in any game of cards but tech was a mystery to her. There was one thing she did know how to do — text
So a friend and I got together and built CommunityHero. It was an delivery service platform that worked through texting your grocery list to a number. That grocery list, which could be written in English, Greek or even “Greeklish” would be be parsed and matched to items and uploaded to a delivery portal.
The platform won 1st place awards at the IEEE International Hackathon and Greece’s National Coronavirus Hackathon, and we were invited to pitch our idea to the Greek Government’s Coronavirus Task Force along with some of the largest tech firms in Greece and the world. Received distinction for our work.
Extinguisher
Extinguisher uses historical fire data from NASA satellites, as well as the locations of current fire stations, in order to find the most optimal locations for new fire stations.
Olympia
This project was my gateway drug into Computer Science — at 16, I wanted to have a JARVIS voice activated butler just like Iron Man. Instead of buying an Alexa (which were still relatively new back then), I decided to learn how to code and build one myself, and called it “Olympia”
Building Olympia the first time I realized could learn how to build (almost) anything. I started out with basic knowledge of loops, conditionals, variables etc. but by the end of the project I had a personal assistant that could stream music, answer questions using Wolfram Alpha, look up things on Wikipedia, tell you jokes, wake you up, control your lights — I was hooked!
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<aside> đź“• **Coursework
Spring 2023**
Spring 2022
Fall 2021
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<aside> ⚡ Skills & Interests
Programming Languages
Python, Swift, Javascript, C++, Objective-C, OCaml, C, SQL
Web Development / Frameworks
HTML, CSS, React, Django, Flask, SwiftUI
Interests
Astronomy, asteroid hunting (15+ discovered), padel, rugby, entrepreneurship, science fiction, radio broadcasting
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<aside> 🏆 Awards