Software Engineer

Mark Balazon

New York, NY

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Email: ****.*******@*****.***

Github: https://github.com/markphilipb

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-balazon-9a5214170/ EDUCATION

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Buffalo, NY Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Expected May 2020 Selected Coursework: Data Structures, Intro to Machine Learning, Algorithms and Complexity, Software Engineering, Probability Theory, Linear Algebra EXPERIENCE

University at Buffalo: ADAMS Laboratory Aug 2019 - Current Undergraduate Research Assistant:

● Extended APIs for communicating with a team of mobile robots (e-puck)

● Deployed a decentralized multi-robot task allocation algorithm (Dec-MRTA) and a decentralized swarm search algorithm (Bayes-Swam) on physical mobile (e-puck) robots

● Advised research team to utilize e-puck microphone values by conducting experiments to gather and present results

● Responsible for collecting data to assist team in research development

● Simulated drones in Microsoft’s Airsim simulator based on an Unreal Engine environment PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers (SASE): Technical Leader January 2020 - Current Project Website:https://ubsase.herokuapp.com/

● Presented the idea of a website to SASE E-Board to increase advertisement and member participation for SASE

● Created a timeline to deploy in 4 months, however, deployed the website in 2 months on March 10th 2020

● Developed website using Flask and Bootstrap

University at Buffalo January 2018 - May 2018

Project Title: Codenames

Objective:Implement a tile-based game based on the popular board game Codenames

● Developed tests for game handler

● Developed games rules and its win/lose states

University at Buffalo September 2019 - December 2019 Project Title: BadFish

Objective:Design and develop an application to teach children coding fundamentals through games

● Implemented chopsticks game feature

● Designed user interface for application from conceptualization to implementation COMPUTER/TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Java, Python, C++, C, HTML/CSS, C# with Unity3D, OCaml (Beginner level) Tools/Frameworks: Git, Flask, Keras, ROS (Beginner level), Visual Studio, Eclipse, CLion, PyCharm, Emacs, GDB

Technologies: HTTP, AJAX, Web Sockets, Linux, Windows, macOS, Docker, E-puck mobile robot