Timeline

I don't see GitHub contributions as a true measure of productivity, but they can be a surprisingly effective source of motivation. There's something powerful about looking back and seeing a consistent record of progress.

A timeline of my projects and milestones over the years, with the occasional moment from the wider world alongside them:

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2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

Saw my Stripe Treasury work presented onstage at Stripe Sessions 2026

Travelled to China

Published the MarkEd research in the ACM conference proceedings

Started working at Stripe as a Software Engineer

Moved to London

Hackathon: Built SOSBridge at the ElevenLabs × London Founder House Hack

Presented my MarkEd research at the University Learning & Teaching Conference

Graduated from the University of Edinburgh with first-class honoursMore

Organised Hack The Burgh 2025, Scotland's largest hackathon

Completed MarkEd, my dissertation on LLM-assisted peer feedback

Hackathon: Built BlockDraw at IC Hack 2025

Researched whether computer vision could make strength training safer

Launched a new website for CompSoc with Caterina Mammola ↗

Launched the 2024 version of this website

Joined Baillie Gifford as a software engineering intern

Built Zephyr Fan, a smart fan that follows you and responds to hand gestures

Returned to CompSoc as fourth-year representative

Hackathon: Built NoteVec at Hack The Burgh 2024

Hackathon: Built ARK-ademic at IC Hack 2024

Started teaching programming part-time at Code Cadets

Started marking Edinburgh's Software Engineering course

Joined CompSoc as third-year representative

Hackathon: Built Vibe Check at Hack The Burgh 2023

Built a live occupancy tracker for Edinburgh's libraries

ChatGPT launched

Hackathon: Built Gender Bias in Promotions at Ada Hack 2022

Co-founded Project Share, a society for student tech builders

Launched the 2022 version of this website

Joined Spotify as a software engineering intern

Made a 3D visualisation of how temperatures have increased over the years

Built a website for an independent journalist covering COP26

Started studying computer science and AI at the University of Edinburgh

Moved to Edinburgh

Created a website for my school magazine

Finished secondary school with A*A*A*A

Contributed to an open-source project for the first time

Built BTCGlobe, a real-time 3D globe for Bitcoin transactions

Made my first React Native app to track SpaceX rocket launches

Scraped all of UCAS and built a tool to help me find which university I wanted to apply to

Started live-streaming programming on Twitch

Launched my first newsletter

Launched the first version of this website

Stay fun,
Tomas