#Tharen Candi - CV and Project Showcase | [email protected]

👋 Summary

Computer science graduate based in Sydney. Australian and Italian dual citizen 🇦🇺🇮🇹

I am seeking work within the field of computer science and am focused on maximizing the amount I can learn and develop technically and professionally. Systems programming, graphics, ML systems, and embedded systems interest me greatly. My goal is to work directly on innovative technologies that postivley impact peoples lives.

I have recently completed my Bachelor’s and plan to further my studies in the future.

Skills

• Programming Languages: Python3, C, Java, Scala
• Operating Systems and Tools: Linux/Debian, bash, Jenkins CI, git
• Web Development: Web protocols, REST API’s, networking
• Databases: PostgreSQL, sqLite, database programming
• Development Methodologies and Tools: Agile, Scrum, XP, Jira, UML
• Programming Paradigms: Object-Oriented, Functional and Imperative programming
• Libraries and Frameworks: Tensorflow, openCV, numpy, flask
• Parallel Computing: CUDA, openMP, pthread, Cache hierarchy, coding for multiple cores
  

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👨‍💻 University Projects

Undergraduate Capstone Project
Implementation and training of a DRAN CNN (UNET style architecture) and gigapixel image pipeline for the bitmasking of glioblastoma cancer cells from TCGA-GBM and TCGA-LGG ‘.svs’ datasets.

• Implemented CNN in python (tensorflow) based on research paper specifications
• Wrote code for training, tuning and analysing the performance of the CNN
• Designed and coded gigapixel image pipeline for computing bitmasks for the large dataset of whole slide images
• Wrote unit tests
• Deployed system on university GPU-server
• Technologies used: python3, openCV, numpy, keras, tensorflow, linux, bash, celery[redis], flask
  
  

JOS kernel and userspace file system
Implemented the JOS kernel (created by MIT) @ EPFL in CS-323.

• Including: Booting (32 bit x86 boot process), Memory management, User environments, Premptive multitasking, File system, spawn and shell
• Technologies used: C, assembly, kernel programming, navigating a medium-size C and assembly code base, C, UNIX
  
  

Firmware/ Embedded Software Development: Multiplayer Battleships Clone for the Nintendo DS
Designed and Implemented a game on the Nintendo DS entirely in c.

• Interrupts, WIFI, graphics, and button hardware interfaces (required complete knowledge of NDS hardware design)
• C library for libNDS development: txt4libnds is a simple text-engine libary to create and manage ‘text objects’ for your nintendo ds projects.
  
  

Other

• Multiprocessor (NUMA) and CUDA experiments in c
  Various experiments to develop a thorough understanding of the specific coding challenges associated with maximising performance on multiprocessor CPU and GPU systems.
• Motion block visulisation
  Motion estimation and visulisation algorithm in python3 with cv2 using sqrt(SSD) macro block matching
• 16-bit CPU design in Verilog
  Designed and implemented a 16-bit CPU and python assembler with the following 18 operations
  
• Odersky’s Scala functional labs
• B-Tree datastructure in c (thread safe)

🛠️ Work Experience

Team Member @ Coles (Aug 2021 - Aug 2022)
Online department shift leader. Responsible for collecting and managing online orders for pickup and delivery.

Skills: customer service, interpersonal communication, manual labor, time management

Musical Staff @ Trinity Grammar School (Dec 2019 - Mar 2020)
Musician for school play (School of Rock, The Musical) on 🎸 and 🎹 - assisted in teaching students learn intruments for their on stage roles.

Skills: music performance, teaching, communication

🏆 Honours and awards

Dean’s List excellence in academic performance @ USYD (Sep 2023)
Academic excellence within the bachelor of computing.

Vice Chancellor’s Global Mobility Scholarship @ USYD (Aug 2022)
University scholarship for high acheiving academics to go on exchange/erasmus.

HSC top achiever in Information Processes and Technology issued by NESA (2019)
Top Achievers in Course lists the student(s) who achieved one of the highest places in an HSC course or VET exam and also achieved a result in the highest band possible (Band 6 or Band E4).

6x recipient of rank 1 prize for HSC subjects (yr 11 & 12) @ Trinity Grammar School (2018 - 2019)

• English Adv prize: 2018, 2019
• Software Design and Development prize: 2018, 2019
• Information Processes and Technology: 2018, 2019
  
  

Battle of the Bands winner @ Trinity Grammar School (2019)
For performance of “The End Medly” by The Beatles

💬 Languages

🇦🇺 English: Native
🇮🇹 Italian: Conversational

👩🏼‍🎓 Education

Bachelor of Computing (computer science)
The University of Sydney - Sydney, NSW, AUS (Feb 2020 - Aug 2023)
WAM: 83.4 (3rd yr 88.8)

International Exchange Program (computer science)
EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) - Lausanne, VD, Switzerland (Sep 2022 - Feb 2023) GPA: 5.6/6

14-week Intensive Italian Language and Cultural Immersion Course
Centro di Lingua e Cultura Italiana per Stranieri - Milano, Lombardia, Italia (Mar 2023 - Jun 2023)

Higher School Certificate
Trinity Grammar School - Sydney, NSW, AUS (2019)
ATAR: 97.65
Subjects: Software Design and Development (SDD), Information Processes and Technology (IPT), English extension 1 (3U) , Adv Mathematics (2U), Adv English, Physics
Activities: Sabre Fencing vice captain, Tech club, Makers club