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Stephan Motha

Computer Science Specialist | University of Toronto

About Me

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Hello, my name is Stephan. I am currently a third year Computer Science Specialist at the University of Toronto. I am always up for a challenge and enjoy keeping up with modern software to solve real-world problems and to create useful applications. I love learning new ways to accomplish everyday tasks and collaborating with others to accomplish this goal. Some Hobbies of mine include playing basketball, keeping in touch with nature, and photography.

Experience

Software Engineer Intern | Salesforce
May 2024 - August 2024
• Developed a Cloud Native Buildpack in Rust to streamline the creation of lightweight container images for Erlang applications aiming to enhance deployment efficiency and scalability
Software Engineer Intern | Salesforce
May 2023 - August 2023
• Worked on the code builder team, building a web-based IDE, directly reducing the mean time to restore through aggregation of disparate data from various sources including AWS
• Developed a service in Elixir to maintain a 99.5% uptime SLA by providing visibility and clarity into the state of cloud-based environments
Software Engineer Intern | HubSpot
August 2022 - December 2022
• Collaborated on the release of the user presets dashboard, giving customer admins extensive control of user groups, allowing default settings and custom views with a 49% onboarding usage over one month
• Reduced latency of API calls to the backend in Java using asynchronous calls on user asset updates and deletion
Software Engineer Intern | PagerDuty
May 2022 - August 2022
• Spearheaded the development of custom feature-based modals in Ember, contributing to a 68% YoY growth in active customer event intelligence trials and supporting a product-led growth methodology
• Extended functionality of the intelligent alert grouping feature using Elixir and Ruby to allow for a dynamic grouping time window based on inter-arrival time, increasing total grouped alerts across services
Mathematics Teaching Assistant | University of Toronto Mississauga
September 2021 - December 2021
• Organized and led weekly tutorials for 70+ students to strengthen understanding of course concepts
• Graded course work and held office hours to address misconceptions and concerns about course content
Software Developer | CAP Lab
May 2021 - August 2021
• Collaborated in a team to develop a neural network framework to simulate language processing in Python and reduce lines of source code by ~4.5 times from a previous C implementation
• Worked extensively with NumPy and related libraries to vectorize matrix computations resulting in efficient feedforward/backpropagation algorithms and easily adaptable code
• Developed a CI/CD pipeline to assess the accuracy of the framework and avoid inconsistencies in various networks
Full-Stack Web Developer | University of Toronto
September 2020 - April 2021
• Developed and updated a web application using React and PHP focusing on the efficient transfer of program details into a brochure format to manage program modifications and visualizations effectively
• Deployed a custom LCD Display application using React, TypeScript and Firebase used in waiting rooms across the department, increasing student engagement

Projects

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Instagram Stats Bot

Using python and the web-based automation tool, Selenium, I was able to impersonate a user in a web browser and gather data from a users profile to notify them of a variety of account statistics.

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Beats Web Scraper

Extracted Beats headphone prices from a web page using Python and the Beautiful Soup library. All prices are saved in a CSV file and if they are below a certain price, the application will send a notification straight to the users email!

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Personal Website

A simple but elegant personal website. The website is completely responsive, interactive and optimized for all devices using HTML, CSS with the help of Bootstrap and jQuery. You're on it right now!

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Two-Player Racing Game

A two-player web browser racing game created using the p5.js library,. The game contains moving obstacles and easy to use controls.

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iSocial

A simple but useful Chrome Browser extension that gathers all of the most popular social media platforms in one place and allows users to modify the platforms available as well as toggle dark mode.

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Hangman Game

A rendition of the classic Hangman game using Java and a GUI. Users can choose from a variety of themes/topics and scores are saved for future users!

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Pico Bot

A Discord bot that enables the use of server polls, questions, lotteries, timers, answers complex math problems and manages deleted and edited messages using Node.js and discord.js.

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