Michael Lotkowski
About
Address
Edinburgh
EH9 1JA
Mobile: 07702562525
Online
Education
University of Edinburgh
2012-2016
Bachelor of Science with Honours in Computer Science
- System Design Project
- Software Testing
- Software Engineering Large Practical
- Professional Issues
- Introductory Applied Machine Learning
- Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science
- Foundations of Natural Language Processing
- Computer Communications and Networks
- Algorithms and Data Structures
- Agent Based Systems
- Reasoning and Agents
- Algorithms, Data Structures and Learning
- Probability with Applications
- Discrete Mathematics and Mathematical Reasoning
- Processing Formal and Natural Languages
- Introduction to Computer Systems
- Introduction to Software Engineering
- Calculus and its Applications
- Cognitive Science
- Computation and Logic
- Data and Analysis
- Functional Programming
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Introduction to Linear Algebra
- Physics 1A: Foundations
Denbigh 6th Form
2010-2012
A Level
- Mathematics: A*
- Further Mathematics: A
- Computer Science: A
- Physics: A
AS Level
- Mathematics: A
- Further Mathematics: A
- Computer Science: A
- Physics: A
Employment
Software Analyst internship at J.P. Morgan
Summer 2014
- Built a service registry, which automatically build documentation from Swagger or SOAP annotations. It can also build a client for the specified service.
- Had to manage a small team of interns.
- Was a scrum master
Co-Founder of Yourtaximeter
June 2014-Present
- Created the current iOS application, which has ~6 thousands monthly users.
- Designed a restful API
- Wrote various modules for the main website which has ~45 thousands monthly users.
Administrator at Catalyst2
10/2013-Present
- Fixing client's website/servers
- Coded a custom tool to easily move backups between server farms
- Resolving issues on custom software stacks
Bartender at Prezzo
08/2013-10/2013
- Opening and closing the bar
- Managing the stock
- Handling complaints
Independent Computer Repairman
2010-Now
- Building computers
- Troubleshooting Windows and Mac OSX
- Setting up server stacks
- Data recovery/backup
Private Tutor at Edinburgh Tutors
01/2013-06/2013
- Preparing a lesson plan
- Marking exercises
- Teaching Highers and Advanced Highers Maths, Physics and Computer Science
Administrator Assistant at Open University
10/2010-11/2010
- Web design and implementation (ColdFusion)
- Printer setup and troubleshooting
- Managing Active Directory
- Setting up group policies
Technical Knowledge
Projects
- Go to my GitHub page
Languages
- C#
- SQL
- Java
- Python
- JavaScript
- HTML/CSS
- PHP
- C/C++
Technologies
- IIS/Apache - Setup, Configuration, Deployment
- MySQL - Setup, Configuration
- Windows Server/Ubuntu Server - Setup, Configuration
- NodeJS - Setup, Configuration, Deployment
Hackathons
Facebook London (1st place)
March 2015
- https://github.com/BartKrol/fbhack
- We wrote a Chrome extension which provides contextual information about the images and text.
- I put forward the idea for the project.
Facebook London (2nd place)
March 2014
- http://pajacyk.herokuapp.com/
- I wrote the music player which uses Rdio to pull the music and I put forward the idea for the project
- I also wrote the websocket server which allows the mobile and main websites to communicate
Edinburgh University/Skyscanner (1st place)
Febuary 2014
- http://skyplanner.co/
- I put forward the idea for the project and designed most of the website
- I also wrote connection to the images api and I wrote a quick route algorithm
J.P Morgan (2nd place)
November 2013
- The application was for charity Musoni. They required an Android application to substitute their paper system.
- I worked on the backend of the android app, which handled the connection to the api
- Managed the integration process between the backend and the front end
About Me
I am currently at the University of Edinburgh, studying Computer Science. In my spare time when I am not studying or working as a server administrator, I tend to work on my side projects. They allow me to gain further knowledge and to build applications and services that I want to use.
In June 2014 I have joined Yourtaximeter, and subsequently created the iOS application which is used by taxi drivers and the general public all over UK. The site is quite popular with over 45 thousands views a month. The iOS application is starting to get traction with nearly 6 thousands users a month. My other responsibilities include server maintenance and designing a restful API, which is crucial to our mobile apps. The API also handles bookings and card payments so reliability and security is the top priority.
My main interests are artificial intelligence and big data. After being inspired by the movie Iron Man, I began working on Jarvis (Jarvis.io newer version). It's my oldest side project (about 5 years). The current version uses statistical machine learning to accomplish tasks, such as: named entity recognition, natural language parsing, answer system. It also does some simple tasks like checking the weather or playing a film. While my implementation of Jarvis is not complete, I strongly believe that with the help of modern statistics, big data analysis and further study into artificial intelligence I will be able to complete it.