SAM THOMAS

R adkc8y@r.postjobfree.com Ó 972-***-**** linkedin.com/in/sam-thomas-27a781173 github.com/cachecake404 PROJECTS

Lend An Eye

Developed an application that leverages

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) which helps the

visually impaired by translating and reading

foreign books in languages that they know.

Utilized GCP to implement image to text,

language translation, text to speech, and

speech to text functionality to the application.

Utilized React Native and Expo to develop a

minimal user interface designed for visually

impaired users .

This application was handed over to a non-

profit organization for the visually impaired

who currently utilize it for their students.

WHOuAR

Developed an application that gathers data

from programming platforms like TopCoder

and generates an AR sticker that contains

useful data on the strengths of a programmer.

Used Unity and the Vuforia AR library to then

scan the AR sticker which is assigned to a given

programmer to visualize in AR the data

obtained from the TopCoder API.

GUI Image Classifier

A binary image classifier made for the average

user which you can train via a GUI.

Utilized the Python library Keras to implement

a Convolution Neural Network.

Utilized the Python GUI framework QT to

implement a GUI where the user just selects

the desired two labelled directories upon

which the image classifier is generated.

Ecommerce Flutter Template

A quick cross platform Ecommerce template

made using Flutter which allows users to order

products to be delivered from a store.

Integrated Google and Facebook sign in for

user registration.

Used Stripe to implement a payment system.

Used Cloud Firestore and Real Time Database

from Firebase to implement the back-end to

store the data.

Leveraged the Google Maps API to implement

an address search feature for registration.

Earnings Backtester

In the stock market whenever a company

releases an earnings report there is generally

an anticipated run-up. Implemented a back-

testing platform to test this phenomenon.

The platform aggregates all earnings for a

given time frame using earnings data from

Yahoo and tests the average profitability and

success rate.

EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant

University of Texas at Arlington

Feb 2021 – Present Arlington TX

Developing natural disaster simulations for VR using Unity with OpenXR.

Simulation played by elderly volunteers from whom we collect locomotion and eye-tracking data.

Data used to analyze how best to guide the elderly population to safety during natural disasters.

Software Development Engineer Intern

Amazon

Jun 2020 – Aug 2020 Seattle WA

Globalized CODA an internal transportation demand forecasting system by implementing support for Europe.

Developed integration and unit tests for the existing and newly developed code-base for CODA primarily using JUnit and Mockito.

Worked primarily with Java and Python and utilized multiple AWS tools such as Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, S3, etc.

Admin Services - Software Engineer Intern

State Farm

May 2019 – Aug 2019 Bloomington IL

Developed the tool to initiate promotion requests to be used by the Administrative Services Department of State Farm.

Worked on an internal web logging tool as a side project.

Worked with the .NET MVC framework for C# and SQL. EDUCATION / COURSES

Bachelors of Science in Computer Science

The University of Texas at Arlington

Aug 2017 – Dec 2021 GPA - 3.6

AWARDS

HackUTD Hackathon 2019 - Team leader of the winning team of the Citi Bank Financial Challenge

HackSMU Hackathon 2019 - Team leader of the winning team of the Best AR/VR Project as well as the Best API Project

HackUTA Hackathon 2018 - Team leader of the winning team of the Best First Time Project

Dubai Coding Challenge 2015 - Won second place at a pro- gramming competition for high school students from all over Dubai hosted by Heriot-Watt university.

SKILLS

Python, C#, Java, Unity, SQL, AWS, GCP

Javascript, ASP.NET MVC, React, Flutter

C++, C, Ruby

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