reach for the stars.         you forget a thousand things every day. make sure this is one of them.       where have u been?        my mind is going a mile an hour.       qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm       please don't break anything       no actually i don't think this purple color is obnoxious       
reach for the stars.         you forget a thousand things every day. make sure this is one of them.       where have u been?        my mind is going a mile an hour.       qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm       please don't break anything       no actually i don't think this purple color is obnoxious

Vidu Widyalankara

aka vidsterbroyo

highschool student in a committed long term relationship with computer science





Who is Vidu Widyalankara?

what i've been up to

CTO of Halton Chess

CTO of Halton Chess

  • Created a (gorgeous) website for Halton Chess using Bootstrap
  • Programmed a Python algorithm to manage the club’s Google Sheets Chess Leaderboard
  • Created PAWn, a Javascript Chess pairing algorithm compatible for both team and individual competitions

Minvest Finance

Minvest Finance

  • As a Co-Lead Software Engineer, I lead a team focused on creating Minvest's "MinvestEd" page, a resource to teach GenZ financial lessons
    • Created using ReactJS, Flask, and Auth0's API
  • As a Cloud Specialist, I built Minvest's AWS environment from the ground up
    • I also save the company a minimum of CA$580+ per year by using AWS resources efficiently

SummIT

SummIT

  • An application designed to remove high-data content from websites, reducing the website's size
  • This results in faster load times, less bandwidth used, and less carbon emissions
  • From collected data, the application can reduce the size of sites by an average of 95%
  • Created using Python and BeautifulSoup

Tech Under Twenty

TU20

  • As Team Lead, I lead a team of 30+ students to provide youth in the GTA with opportunities in tech, business & entrepreneurship
  • I increased the total number of event attendees by 3x, helping to fulfill TU20’s mission statement
  • As Development Team Lead, I increase attendee satisfaction by leading a team to create IT solutions for TU20 events

Twitter Sentiment Detection

Twitter Sentiment Detection

  • I created a machine learning model trained on a dataset of 1.6 million tweets to predict a Tweet’s sentiment
  • I performed exploratory data analysis and trained the model using both Random Forest and XGBoost