I'm a 3rd year BSc Computer Science student at The University of Manchester. I've been programming as a hobby for a few years, building projects on here for fun. I will be joining Optiver as a software engineer in November 2024.
That said, I still like to maintain a diverse range of projects as the real passion I have is for fast-paced learning and a continuously challenging project.
Wrote, from scratch, a small operating system to run on an ARM CPU. Includes I/O interactions for a physical board, and software-based multi-threading support.
Team project to build a competitive paper-trading based on live stock market data. I really enjoyed getting this platform up and running, and I was happy to be able to contribute both to front and back end.
I thought I'd challenge myself for my secondary-school project: Create a working interpreter that can understand basic programming concepts, e.g. flow control, expressions, I/O, etc. I completed the code over a few weekends before the actual project was supposed to begin, just because I wanted to do it so badly and couldn't stop after I'd begun. In the end, I was extremely happy to receive a mark of 100% for it.
I've since added a few extra things outside of the coursework, such as function definitions and fully Boolean/maths/mixed expression support e.g. 2*(31 + -1) == 3 && 1 != 20 * 3
Got annoyed with how inconsistent the Windows 10 search/launchbar was when you wanted specific apps you regularly use. Made my own. Planning to refactor codebase at some point, hoping to maybe make a proper file-indexing system.