Simon McManis | Software Engineer
I am a DevOps-minded back-end software engineer, focused on building robust infrastructure and applications. I studied the Bachelor of Engineering (Software) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and graduated with First-class Honors in June 2022
As a professional engineer, I am driven by my passion for designing creative solutions and solving challenging problems. Computer science and programming are particularly special to me because they allow me to work on exciting problems in practically any domain. I aim to deliver long term value driven by sustainable technology and collaboration.
Throughout my time at UTS, I have worked in a diversity of environments, both in teams and individually, to solve a wide variety of problems across multiple specialisations. Below are just a few past projects:
The UTS Software Development Studio is a co-curricular program that puts students in multi-year teams to build a real software project for an industry client. The studio trains students to work in dynamic teams, with a particular focus on agile methodologies.
I have been involved as both a junior and a senior. As a junior, I focused on building up skills in communication, collaboration, and problem-solving. As a senior, I took more of a leadership role, where I coordinated the agile development process and provided mentoring in both the technical and organizational aspects.
The vacation scholarship with CSIRO is a summer internship program that gives students the opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers on innovative research projects.
My experience in this program allowed me to put into practice and grow my data science and analytical skills. The creative freedom I was given allowed me to really take ownership of the project and develop the autonomy for life-long learning.
GlamCorner is Australia’s leading designer fashion rental destination providing a one-time rental service as well as a subscription offering.
Data61 is a world-leading data science research and engineering organisation that transforms and creates industries by joining academia, government, and R&D globally.
2018-2022 B.E. Software Engineering (Honours) in Computer Science & Data AnalyticsGPA: 6.71 out of 7WAM: 88.57Taken Courses
AwardsDean's Merit List 2020 Awarded to the top 10 students ranked by weighted average mark (WAM) over the previous year Dean's List 2019, 2020, 2021 Awarded to students achieving a >85 WAM over the previous year |
A Python toolkit for automated generation and comparison of machine learning pipelines used for researching feature selection algorithms on high-dimensional biological disease data.
An innovative virtual reality game modification for Superhot VR, leveraging advanced electroencephalogram (EEG) technology to enable players to control the game using their brainwaves by focusing their attention
Website for students to get personalised UTS subject recommendations based on their interests, subject ratings, and subject preferences.
Recommendation API hosted in Heroku that uses a modified kNN algorithm to recommend subjects
Final team project for my ntroduction to Software Development subject at UTS. A Java web application for an IoT device shop.
A lexical analyser and LL(1) parser generator built in Java. Used to generate a parser from any context-free grammar with Java-like tokens.
A web-based Python application for detecting skin cancer in uploaded photos. Uses a convolutional neural network to classify images of skin lesions as cancerous or benign.
Very quickly put together demo of smart alarm that forces a user to raise their heart rate to wake up.
Simple ePortfolio website for university assignment.
Terminal version of the game “Connect Four”.
In my summer scholarship with Data61, I created a set of Python command-line tools to rapidly generate, evaluate, and optimise machine learning pipelines. I utilised these tools to research feature selection algorithms and apply machine learning in disease diagnosis for various cancers and malaria.