Vishal Soomaney Vijaykumar

Vishal Soomaney Vijaykumar

London, England, United Kingdom
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I'm a problem-first founder and CTO, passionate about combining unique advances in…

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Experience

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    London Area, United Kingdom

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    United Kingdom

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    London, United Kingdom

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    York, United Kingdom

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    London, United Kingdom

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    London, United Kingdom

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    Groningen, Netherlands

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    United Kingdom

Education

  • University of York Graphic

    University of York

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    Activities and Societies:

    - Computer Science Course representative for 2 years (2016-2018)

    - Attained the York Achieving Excellence Bursary

    - Runner up in the G-Research Coding Challenge where my team designed and implemented an algorithm to invest in a simulated stock market.

    - Runner up in the Royal Hackaway MLH hackathon.

    - 3rd place winner in the York Instruments 2017 Codeathon at the University of York.

    - University of York Blockchain Society President (2018-2019)

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    - Computer Science Course representative for 2 years (2016-2018)

    - Attained the York Achieving Excellence Bursary

    - Runner up in the G-Research Coding Challenge where my team designed and implemented an algorithm to invest in a simulated stock market.

    - Runner up in the Royal Hackaway MLH hackathon.

    - 3rd place winner in the York Instruments 2017 Codeathon at the University of York.

    - University of York Blockchain Society President (2018-2019)

    - University of York Japanese Society Vice-president (2015-2017)

Licenses & Certifications

Projects

  • VeridenKey - Blockchaingers Hackathon 2018

    Came 2nd in the Global Digital Identity track in the Blockchaingers Hackathon 2018, the world's largest Blockchain related hackathon. I participated as one of 2 main blockchain developers of the VeridenKey team.

    The project involved interconnecting national e-IDs to form a single standardized digital ID that represents you in the digital space and give the user control of the data sharing and landscape.

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  • Smart Contract based tenancy agreement verifier

    An Ethereum Smart Contract based system that securely stores your tenancy agreements and handles deposit disputes using an Augur style dispute settling mechanism.

    The project came 2nd in the Royal Hackaway Major League Hacking hackathon. I was one of two members of the development team.

    Was the lead backend developer as well as one of the two ethereum smart contract developers. Alongside this, I hosted the application using AWS and wrote a Javascript interface that interacted with…

    An Ethereum Smart Contract based system that securely stores your tenancy agreements and handles deposit disputes using an Augur style dispute settling mechanism.

    The project came 2nd in the Royal Hackaway Major League Hacking hackathon. I was one of two members of the development team.

    Was the lead backend developer as well as one of the two ethereum smart contract developers. Alongside this, I hosted the application using AWS and wrote a Javascript interface that interacted with the smart contract on the testnet.

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  • Wildfire AWARE (Algorithmic Wildfire Analysis and Prediction)

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    Founder of the team that developed a Wildfire predictor with WebWorldWind as a front facing UI. It can currently predict wildfires with a 74.8% accuracy using machine learning, specifically through the usage of a Support Vector Machine + data through Dark Sky and several other data sources. Team members Vishal Soomaney, Flinn Dolman and Peter Jupp. Achievements as part of this project so far include:

    - Winners of the Microsoft Azure 2018 Competition
    - Winners of the UN World Challenge…

    Founder of the team that developed a Wildfire predictor with WebWorldWind as a front facing UI. It can currently predict wildfires with a 74.8% accuracy using machine learning, specifically through the usage of a Support Vector Machine + data through Dark Sky and several other data sources. Team members Vishal Soomaney, Flinn Dolman and Peter Jupp. Achievements as part of this project so far include:

    - Winners of the Microsoft Azure 2018 Competition
    - Winners of the UN World Challenge 2018
    - Invited to present our work at the ESA Phi Conference in Rome 2018.
    -All expenses paid trip to Helsinki, Finland as part of the NASA Europa Challenge Finals to engage in mentorship and to present our project at the Nokia executive experience center.
    - 1st Place (£2500) in the Smart Cities (SMARTIES) Entrepreneurship award competition funded by Research Councils UK.
    -Official endorsement from Green Peace Russia.

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  • Ethereum2IPFS Content Distribution Service

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    Collaborated with the London Blockchain Labs to co-develop a project that provides secure, decentralised content distribution by using the Ethereum network to maintain a database of transactions and references to files stored using IPFS. This was built as a Proof Of Concept Blockchain project for Deloitte.

Honors & Awards

  • YUSU Society Development STAR Award Winner and Best New Society Nominee

    York University Student Union

    Awarded the Development STAR Award for leading one of the best developed societies of the 2018-2019 academic year. My society was also nominated for being the best new society.

  • York Technology Conference Entrepeneurship Competition Winner

    York Technology Conference

    Winner of the largest competition at the York Technology Conference with a cash prize of £500. My project involved an innovative application of Blockchain technology to reduce costs and administrative issues involving airports and passenger disruptions.

  • Winner of the Microsoft Azure Competition 2018

    Microsoft

    Led the Backend development as well as the team's overall entry for the Microsoft Azure 2018 Competition in Finland.

  • Winner of the UN World Challenge 2018

    UN, ESA and NASA

  • York Award Gold

    University of York

    One of the only 4% of University of York students to receive the York Award Gold.

  • York Achieving Excellence Award

    University of York

    One of only 73 students from the University of York to be awarded the York Achieving Excellence Award (now renamed to York Futures Award) in 2016. This included a cash prize of £2,100.

  • York Award

    University of York

  • Business Innovation For Digital Technology Finalist

    University of York

    Completed the “Business Innovation For Digital Technology” scheme hosted by the Royal Academy of Engineering. My team earned a commendation from both the Bank of Santander and the Royal Academy of Engineering during the proceeding competition.

  • York Project Management Scheme

    University of York

    Only Computer Scientist to successfully complete the York Project Management Scheme in the 2015-2016 academic year.

  • York Entrepeneurship Scheme Finalist

    University of York

    Only Computer Scientist to complete the York Entrepreneurship Scheme in this academic year. Was also a finalist in the business idea pitching competition at the end of the scheme.

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Spanish

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Hindi

    Full professional proficiency

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