As of September 2024, I am actively seeking new opportunities!
Read my full bio to learn more about me, and if you think I could be a good fit for your team, please get in touch.

Achievements

Stats

  • 10M downloads on DockerHub [Source]
  • Top 100 developer on GitHub [Source]
  • 10+ wins on global hackathons [Source]
  • Top 1% helper on StackOverflow [Source]
  • 1M+ lines of code written [Source]
  • 1M+ annual unique users across my websites
  • 10k+ subscribers to developer blog [Source]
  • 100+ repos I maintain or are a core contributor of [Source]

Awards


Hackathons

  • Won 1st place overall + Network Rail and TFL prizes at Infra-hack, London 2019

    Used computer vision to identify incidents and determine station status, in real-time.

  • Won 1st place overall at StartHack, Switzerland 2019

    Created Pax, to identify + remove flashes from video footage for photo-sensitive viewers.

  • Won Inteligen Buildings Award (KONE) at Hack Junction, Helsinki 2018

    Build Elevate-to-Awesome, an IoT app to track and gamify taking the stairs

  • Won BlockChain Award (SwissCom) at StartHack, Switzerland 2018

    Created UNwasted, a social food dapp to reduce waste, on the Ethereum network

  • Won 1st place overall at StartHack, Switzerland 2016

    Developed system for real-time sentiment analysis of geographic social media data

  • Won 2nd place at AngelHack and HP sponsor prize Winner, London 2015

    Created SmartDepart, an alarm to wake you up earlier if there are delays on your commute

  • Won 2nd place at NBC Universal Comcast hackathon, London 2015

    Created an intelligent movie recommendation engine, implemented as Twitter bot

  • Won 1st place as team at HealthHack, London 2015

    Build smart watch app for gamifying health tracking

  • Won 2nd place at AngelHack London 2014

    Created Anti-Theft Charge, Android app that prevents theft while your device is charging

  • Won 2nd place (and Intelligent Headset main prize), DevLab Live London 2014

    Made CityExplorer, interactive tour guide using accelerometers to determine line of site


Flagship Projects

The above list are a selection of projects I have built, which demonstrate my competency with React, Vue, Svelte, Rust and Python.

I am incredibly quick to learn new tech stacks, and am able to take a new project from zero to production in a matter of days, while maintaining a high quality of code. You can view my full catalog of apps at apps.aliciasykes.com.