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A bit about me

I’m a Software Engineer based in London interested in building interfaces that provide a better user experience.

I'm motivated by solving hard problems and creating interfaces that offer a great user experience. I strive to build products that have a purpose, delight users, and empower them to do more with technology.

I work at Onfido where I build dashboards to help businesses verify who their users are safely. I attended the Recurse Center in New York City 🇺🇸, a self directed retreat for programmers. There I was able to explore how to make programming more accessible and human, played around with some lower-level languages, worked on some generative art projects and paired with lots of great people.

I was born in Serbia 🇷🇸, lived in Australia 🇦🇺 for a few years as a kid, and have grown up in London 🇬🇧. In my spare time I like to dance, cook, and play tennis. You can find me on Instagram, or LinkedIn, and if you want to say hello here's my email.

Some things I've worked on

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I was interested in exploring programming through movement. I built a code editor that uses gestures to navigate and edit a snippet of code, similar to vim commands.

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One of the ways I learned how to program was by building games in the browser. They provided me with immediate feedback, on the screen, and dealt with enough complexity to help me reason about fundamental concepts.

I was curious about functional programming and decided to build a clone of the breakout game using four different paradigms; vanilla JS, functional JS, Elm, and Rust (wasm). I used automated tests, with Jest and Puppeteer, to measure the code execution time of each game and map it to the speed of the ball, creating a visual of execution time between each implementation.

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Having worked in the identity space over the last couple of years I wondered how we could make the verification process more human and allow the user to see their identity. At a recent hackathon, together with a Product Designer at Onfido Fabien Mahe, we created generative art print using face detection data.

Demo coming shortly.