Achievements

Stats

• 10M downloads on DockerHub
• Top 100 developer on GitHub worldwide
• 10+ wins on global hackathons
• Top 1% helper on StackOverflow
• 1M+ lines of code written
• 1M+ annual unique users across my websites
• 10k+ subscribers to developer blog
• 5k+ followers on GitHub, X, Dev, LinkedIn etc
• 100+ repos I maintain or are a core contributor of
• 1000+ repos and open source projects contributed to

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Awards

• OpenUK Honors List 2025
• GitHub Accelerator Program
• OpenUK Honors List 2024
• Best Final Year CompSci Project

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Flagship Projects

• Dashy - Control panel for self-hosting

  Vue.js
  | lissy93/dashy | Star Count: 20k

• Web-Check - All-in-one OSINT and security scanner

  React
  | lissy93/web-check | Star Count: 25k

• Digital Defense - Ultimate checklist of online security tips

  Solid
  | lissy93/personal-security-checklist | Star Count: 17k

• Awesome Privacy - Curated list of verified privacy-respecting services

  Astro
  | lissy93/awesome-privacy | Star Count: 7k

• AdGuardian Term - Real-time traffic monitoring

  Rust
  | lissy93/AdGuardian-Term | Star Count: 1k

• Portainer Templates - Over 500 1-click Docker apps

  Python
  | Lissy93/portainer-templates | Star Count: 2k

• Domain Locker - Complete domain name management suite

  Angular
  | Lissy93/domain-locker | Star Count: 0k

The above is just to demonstrate my proficiency in the given tech stacks. But I'm very quick to pick up new technologies. You can view my full catalog of apps at apps.aliciasykes.com, or even more of my apps on my GitHub.

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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