Steven Anderson
Graduate of the Univerisity of Warwick, currently working on an online student food community with the aim of being the number one resource for student cooking.
| Headline: | Engineer |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Industries: | Computing, Entertainment, Food and Drink, Information Technology, Internet, Media |
| Skills: | AJAX, Computer Engineering, Databases, Design, Django, Engineering, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages and Platforms, PHP, Python, Software Engineering, SQL, Web design, Web Development |
| Next step: | Getting an alpha release of my food social networkk out. |
| Location: | Birmingham |
| Groups: | Imperial Entrepreneurs, Warwick Entrepreneurs |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding team mates, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Receiving feedback, Starting a company |
| Schools: | University of Warwick |
FEATURED STARTUP
Student Bites
Student Bites
A social network for students to share recipes and get involved in cooking.
- Startup type: Company
- Status: Active
- Stage: Beta
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Asidua (GB) |
| Position: | Graduate Engineer |
| Time period: | August 2008 - Present |
| Description: | Working with a range of mostly Microsoft technologies, contributing to Asidua's ADI solutions. |
| Employer: | Personal Projects |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Description: | • Final Year Project – Content based music genre classification. Achieved 65% accuracy over 800 songs partitioned into 8 genres (I know this can be improved upon but time constraints didn't allow it).
• UWTBC League Management System - PHP based league management system for the University of Warwick Ten Pin Bowling Club. Used PDFLib to dynamically generate PDFs. • Piedit (code.google.com/p/piedit) – An IDE/interpreter for the Piet esoteric programming language. • Food at Uni (foodatuni.co.uk) – A phpBB based site to allow students to share recipes. Currently rebuilding this from scratch using Django on Google App Engine. • EposterWall (eposterwall.co.uk) – A user generated online billboard. A project I made whilst learning PHP. • Kukundu's Riddle (kukundusriddle.co.uk) – A fiendishly addictive online riddle inspired by the likes of notPron. • The People's Riddle (thepeoplesriddle.com) – A user-generated online riddle. • Things What Look Like Other Things (thingswhatlooklikeotherthings.com) – Self-explanatory. • University Websites – Ten Pin Bowling Club, Capoeira Club, Warwick STAR (unfortunately all are no longer online). |
| Employer: | Tangozebra/DoubleClick/Google |
| Position: | Intern Developer |
| Time period: | June 2007 - July 2007 |
| Description: | Web application development and integration using a wide array of technologies, including: Flash/ActionScript, Java, JavaScript, AJAX, PHP, XML/XSL, Apache, MySQL. |
| Employer: | Various |
| Position: | Various unrelated roles in customer services and retail. |
| Time period: | December 2002 - May 2007 |
| Employer: | UUMC Ltd |
| Position: | Developer/Guitar Hero |
| Time period: | November 2007 |
| Description: | Working on the early stages of playfire.com, a social network for gamers created by a Soho based startup. Developing with the Django framework, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript (jQuery), SVN. |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Warwick |
| Time period: | 2004 - 2008 |
| Degree: | Computer Science, BSc |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | • Web technologies, web standrads.
• Djing. • Ten Pin Bowling. • Bass guitar. • Capoeira. • Travelling. • Puzzles/riddles. |
| Clubs: | • League Chairman of the University of Warwick Ten Pin Bowling Club.
• Webmaster for University of Warwick Ten Pin Bowling Club, Warwick Capoeira Society, Warwick STAR. |
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Ben Phillips
Co-founder and CTO of a social networking site for computer gamers.
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Kieran O'Neill
Bermudian, 21, startup founder living in London, working on web apps and enjoying life. Working on third company.
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Seb Hayes
Co-founder PSU.com/PS3Forums.com. 1 Million Unique Visitors per month, 300,000 members. Co-founder Playfire.com Founder GamerGuides.com