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Dean Stirrat

Dean Stirrat

Developer

San Francisco, California, US
(707) 779-2384
English

Background


About

About

I am a recent computer science graduate from the bay area looking to start a career in software development. I am passionate about software and emerging tech and love staying up to date on the latest advances, especially in AI

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Research Assistant, Syracuse University

    Feb, 2020 - Mar, 20201 month

    Assisted Professor and Graduate students with project to understand and eliminate vocal stammer in children

    • Gathered audio data based on project requirements and software constraints

    • Normalized, cleaned, and prepared data to minimize irregularities

    • Labeled and categorized data elements to optimize software analysis

Projects Experience

Projects Experience

  • AI email writer

    Mar, 2023 - Mar, 20236 days

    Used Next.js to allow users to quickly generate rich descriptive emails using only a few simple input parameters

    • Built function to extract user input and transformed data into vivid chat-gpt prompts

    • Created function to use crafted prompts to make calls to OpenAI’s chat API

  • Social Media Sentiment Analysis

    Apr, 2022 - May, 20221 month

    Preformed sentiment analysis on tweets from various cities around the world to generate opinion data on the war in Ukraine

    • Utilized Twitter Streaming API to scrape 10,000+ tweets a day based on keywords and location data

    • Employed Vader sentiment analysis and the google translate API to normalize and extract sentiment data from tweets

    • Used Pyplot to dynamically visualize results as bar and pie graphs and update after each run

  • IOS Organization App

    Jan, 2022 - Apr, 20223 months

    ChefPad is an IOS app that allows users to get the most out of their kitchen by making it easy to organize and keep track of pantry items/recipes.

    • Published powerful IOS organization app with using Swift and swiftUI leading to almost 100 downloads

    • Built user login and cloud storage using google firebase to allow for access across multiple devices

    • Deployed local SQLite backend to run in parallel with firebase to allow users to read/write data without internet access

    • Orchestrated development using Agile development process, resulting in accelerated timeline and extension of project scope

Skills

Skills

  • Web Development

    HTML

    CSS

    JavaScript

    React.JS

    Node.JS

  • SQL

    Backend

  • Java
Education

Education

  • Computer Science, Bachelor, Syracuse University

    Aug, 2017 - Aug, 2022

    Database Management

    Data Structures

    Compiler Construction

    Algorithms

    Social Media Data Mining

    Object Oriented Programming

Volunteer Work

Volunteer Work

  • Volunteer, Engineering Ambassadors

    Feb, 2019 - May, 2022

    Made weekly visits to schools in underprivillaged neighborhoods. Spent time with groups of students doing STEM related projects in order to nurture their interest in the topic.

Interests

Interests

  • Backpacking

    ForrestMoutainRiver
  • AI

    AGIExcellerationist
  • Urbanism

    YIMBYTransportationHousing