In September of 2017, I entered my last year of a 5-year program at McMaster University. I also got an in-person interview at Microsoft. Somehow they believed in my ability and offered me a position which I was happy to accept. I want other people to feel confident taking steps like these, so this is one of many articles outlining my experience and what I learned on the way.

After working in 3 different companies for over a year combined, I may be short in experience to make grandiose claims about what is wrong with stand-ups, but these are my thoughts as someone who tends to be hyper-critical about and interested in how businesses do business...

Project Details:

SmartServe is an autonomous table tennis training system for table tennis players with various skill levels. SmartServe aids in diagnosing and improving a player's performance over time. The system trains table tennis players by shooting table tennis balls towards the player and detects successful returns from the player. The system can further adapt to the player's weaknesses and help them overcome it through further training. Importantly, SmartServe alleviates the problems of finding and working with a coach for players, as well as coaches trying to train multiple players simultaneously. The system will be deemed a success if the table tennis players and coaches, can enjoy and see a value added by using SmartServe.
This project was built with Java, Arduino, Python (Flask, OpenCV) and implements CV, reinforcement learning, and TCP communication.

I am a Software Engineering & Management student. This is largely the manifestation of some deeply rooted desires to design and implement large, distributed software systems as well as manage teams in order for them to operate most effectively. When entering my 2nd software developer internship, was pretty happy to hear they were just phasing in new Agile practices into their software development workflow.
What I wanted to do hear, is comment on my experiences being involved in such a process from a rather novice perspective. I do know this is highly contextualized, pertaining to one person in one company, but nevertheless there could be something to learn when on-boarding entry-level employees into your company.

Project Details:

This started as my first React application and is currently being worked on to build it into a fully-fledged cross-platorm application. The focus currently lies on managing the application well with unit tests, documentation and continous integration.

Proposal Details:

Successfully designed a product in order to solve a problem my team saw in the world. The scope of the project included problem indentification, finding a solution, performing market research and detailing requirements of the product.