Hi, I'm Ollie! I'm a second-year Computer Science student at the University of Warwick, working across full stack development, embedded systems, and machine learning. I enjoy a challenge, and I'm drawn to seeing complex problems through to a complete and robust system.
I like building it all, from firmware up to the browser: knowing how every part works, and how the layers interlock to come together as one. Building something bottom-up, from embedded devices through backend APIs and storage to a user-facing front end, while thinking about security and performance along the way, gives me both viewpoints. I can work through the small, intricate details while still seeing the bigger picture.
Lately that's included machine learning, where computing and my love for music collide: Heimdall listens to a guitar signal and works out which effects have been applied to it, using a CNN I designed and trained from scratch in PyTorch.
Outside of computing, I play guitar (I got my first guitar for Christmas when I was six!). I listen to as much music as I can (it's my favourite thing to talk about), and you'll find a few albums I've had on repeat lately further down. I've also recently been working on my own guitar pedals, which gives me an excuse to learn a new riff instead of finishing the last one. When I'm away from a screen and an amp, I'm usually out on a long walk with my dog :)
