Hello world,
I'm Darryl Tanzil. |
🎓 A

computer science and business major

at the University of British Columbia.


⚽️ A previous Software Engineer Intern @ .

📚️ Vice President Academic for UBC's Computer Science Student Society.

🧑‍ Previously SWE'd @

📈 Orbis Investments,

🏠 Su Casa Design, &

🎮 UBC Game Development.



💻 Experienced in Python, Java, C#, React, ExpressJS, Node.JS, C++, PHP, MySQL, and Unity & Salesforce development.

I have blog & study notebook. Have any ideas?




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🚧 My Experiences

💻 Software Engineer Internships
• Electronic Arts ⚽️ - engineer for FC (FIFA), working on FUT microservices
• Orbis Investment Management 📈 - firm with $40 billion AUM
• Su Casa Design 🏠 - award-winning Canadian drafting firm

🤖 Fullstack Web Projects
• Yudo Fitness Trainer 🏆 - 1st place / 665, realtime exercise program
• ReCall Memory Assistant 🏆 - 1st place / 1893, LLM enhancer
• Tech Apparel - founded company which develops "qr-code" t-shirts
• Soapify - app which cleans song lyrics
• Minutes.AI - use AI to produce meeting notes for you
• Faith Life E-institute - bible study application for non-profit
• FuZe Chrome Extension - auto open zoom links you'd forget

⚙️ Python, C++, C#, & Java Projects
• Boston Dynamics Hawkeye Robot - AI robot for Stanford's Treehacks
• Cybercision - visual novel video game, won audience choice award @ UBC
• Multithreaded HTTP webserver - host data with TCP, sockets, caching
• Basemap Optimizer - optimizes paths to bases in maps
• FIFA Stat API - soccer player comparison tool using Java & Spring
• Invoice Generator - Tool which manipulates invoice data in Java

📖 Educational Content
Data Structures + Algorithms Youtube Channel - 80+ algorithms videos

📊️ Product Management & Consulting
• Charitize - decentralized charity donation concept
• Kinzoo Product - consulted for Kinzoo, a children's messaging platform
• AReward ProduHacks Submission - online AR shopping concept



💻 Software Engineer Internships

⚽️ Electronic Arts - (8 months, May 2023 - December 2023) As a backend software engineer intern working on Electronic Arts' flagship video game, FC 24, I worked on the microservices and internal libraries of the servers behind the gamemode FUT. At the end-of-year performance review, I was evaluated as an exceptionally performing intern by the tech lead and development director. Here's a blog explaining what I worked on.- Java, Kotlin, Python, Jenkins, SQL, MySQL, Perforce, Google Cloud Platform





🏠 Su Casa Design - (June 2020 - May 2023) Worked full-time, and part-time as a Salesforce Platform Developer for the internal tooling behind Su Casa Design, an architecture firm based in British Columbia. This position was my first exposure into the IT world, and it allowed me to learn more about processing large data loads, and translating business needs into technical outcomes. - JavaScript, Apex, SOQL


🤖 Fullstack Software Projects

Yudo Fitness Trainer - 🏆 First Place against 665 participants at NwHacks 2023, Western Canada's Largest Hackathon. Uses a custom-developed exercise detection algorithm, self-created datasets, TensorFlow AI, and Open AI's models to help users improve their form and state relative accuracy score, feedback, and compliments/criticisms while doing various exercises. - Tensorflow, BlazePose, Open AI Models, React, Express.JS, Node.JS, Axios, Figma



ReCall Memory Assistant - 🏆 Placed 1st / 1893 at Canada’s Largest Hackathon, Hack the North in LLM enhancer prize category, for $2000 jackpot. Used Turbo Vision Model with Google Cloud Storage to develop AI assistant which recalls memories. Increased LLM image throughput and reduced API token usage by parsing image payload into 3x3 panels - JavaScript, Express, OpenAI Turbo Vision Model



Tech Apparel - Founder & President of student company, backed by the JABC company initiative. Produced & sold 50 clothes with QR codes and software allowing you to set & change the destination of the QR. Delegated tasks to 8 members and coordinated with local t-shirt & printing vendors, as well as various clothing outlets to sell to. I ensured that user data was encrypted via a SHA-256 algorithm in order to ensure customer safety. - MySQL, PHP, HTML5, CSS, JS



Soapify - App which takes playlists and cleans lyrics through an algorithm that cross-checks tempo, duration, time signature, and other stats of explicit song with similar equivalents, comparing non-explicit ones to returns matches. - React, Node.JS, Axios, Spotify Web API



Minutes.AI - Use AI to write complete notes for your meetings. Given Realtime audio data from meetings, Minutes.ai transcribes, separates into idea sized chunks of sentences, summarizes, and writes bullet points.- React, Node.JS, Express.JS, AssemblyAI API, GPT-3 OpenAI API, Figma



Faith Life E-institute - Over a summer, I collaborated with a backend developer to create the front-end of a Bible Study Web Application for a non-profit. - Phone Gap, React Native



FuZe - Chrome extension that opens zoom links automatically. - HTML5, CSS, Chrome.api



🤖 Python, C++, C# & Java Software Projects

Boston Dynamics Hawkeye Robot - Hawkeye is a real time multimodal conversation and interaction agent for the Boston Dynamics’ mobile robot Spot. Leveraging OpenAI’s experimental GPT-4 Turbo and Vision AI models, Hawkeye aims to empower everyone, from seniors to healthcare professionals in forming new and unique interactions with the world around them. - Python, Docker, GPT-4 Turbo & Vision AI Models, Spot SDK



Cybercision - A Cybernetic Surgeon Simulator game developed on the Unity platform. I collaborated cross-functionally with artists, designers, writers, and other engineers to deliver a product which won audience choice award at UBC's annual game developer showcase.- C#



Multithreaded HTTP Web Server - My implementation of a web server in C++ with caching, TCP sockets, and a built-in thread pool for handling multiple client connections concurrently. The web server serves static HTML content from an "index.html" file and responds to incoming HTTP requests. - C++, Cmake



Basemap Optimizer - Uses BFS Algorithm, RGB encoding, and self-implemented data structures to determine the 'longest shortest path' within a maze. - C++



FIFA Stack Tracker - Compare stats between different FIFA players. - Java, Spring, Maven
Invoice Generator - Tool for manipulating Invoice Data. - Java, Swing UI

📖Educational Content

Data Structures + Algorithms Youtube Channel - Youtube Channel where I explain data structures and algorithms problems and concepts, conduct technical interviews for others, and get technically interviewed! - Python, Data structures and Algorithms



📊️ Product Management & Consulting

Charitize - Decentralized App that distributes charity funds directly to volunteers instead of the charity, to fight corruption. - React, TailwindCSS, Node.JS, Firebase



Kinzoo Product Management Sprint - Video Demo | Slides
Product management competition in which me and my team analyzed an existing app, and determined an effective way to increase user retention, building a working prototype. Won recognition as most innovative solution. - Figma


AReward ProduHacks Submission - Devpost | Slides
A web application centered around customer reviews and augmented reality, intended to re-invent the online shopping experience. - Figma, HTML5, CSS




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