I am a full stack web developer with a passion for making beautiful and engaging user experiences. At this stage of my life, I'm exploring careers in forestry, 3D modeling, and software engineering.
I previously worked at Benchling on the team implementing a new data analytics product for Biotech R&D acceleration.
I built and maintain the site Downup, a site for small communities to organize challenges such as a monthly pushup challenge.
I received a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in May 2019. During my junior and senior years, I was a teaching assistant for introductory computer science courses, including heading a new course in Fall 2018.
Other random things about me:
- I own a bearded dragon!
- I play classical piano.
- I enjoy biking, hiking, and backpacking.
- I speak Portuguese and beginner level German
Please hire me.
My résumé can be accessed here.
- Downup - Hobby website for small communities to do goal-oriented challenges together (see more).
- Web system for Bard College's Citizen Science program (see more).
- Grading app for computer science courses at Brown University [Flask] (see more).
- Create and observe your own solar system [p5.js] (see more).
- Web app developed to provide an API for testing rocket motors and visualizing thrust results [Flask, Raspberry Pi] (see more).
- Work for LIGO (Laser Interfrometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory) [Python] (see more).
- Internal-use web apps for Oakwood Friends School [Google Apps Script] (see more).
- This website [Python, Jinja, Netlify] (see more).
- Redesign of Melanie Falick's website [Squarespace] (see more).
- Life Percent Website: Shows the user the percent of their life that has passed [Javascript] (see more).
Downup
Website: downup.app
Downup is a platform for small communities to engage in communal challenges. It rewards goal completion over absolute achievement, recognizing individual differences and goals. For example, in a pushup challenge, participants set personal daily goals, with progress tracked by percentage rather than raw numbers of pushups completed.
The December 2023 pushup challenge had 61 participants and collectively totaled 49,188 pushups!
The site is made with React/Typescript, NextJS, Postgres, Redis, and Twilio.
Web system for Bard College's Citizen Science program
Over the winter break, all Bard College firstyears participate in Citizen Science. Every student, when home for the break, takes a water sample and brings it back to campus to be analyzed (by the students themselves). Throughout the process, they upload images, location data, and observations.
I wrote this web system to faciliate the entire process, from data upload to visualization. It is built using Flask on Google Cloud Platform (App Engine, Cloud SQL (Postgres), Storage). The web system utilizes a wide array of both frontend architecture (image editing, file dragging, downloading, uploading, and zipping, mapping tools, etc.) and backend architecture (CAS authentication, image compression and conversion, etc.). In addition, the system uses the ArcGIS Javascript API to give the public an interface to view the data.
Data map: citsciwater.bard.edu/map
CS Course Grading App
I developed a grading app for use in CSCI0111 in Fall 2018, a course I was a head TA of and helped develop. The app allows computer science courses to handle student handin, automated and commented grading, sending grade reports to students, and manage grades in a streamlined, customizable, and FERPA-compliant manner.
The software was also used for CSCI 1470 in Fall 2019, with 40 teaching assistants grading handins for 400 students.
Exosim
This website (written in pure Javascript using the processing p5.js library) allows you to create your own solar system. You can see the planets orbiting their star - all objects interact with each other gravitationally. Additionally, you can see what the data measured on Earth to observe the exoplanets would look like as the planets block the light of their star when they pass in front of it.
Website: exosim.netlify.com
Code: Github
Thrust Test App
Me and two friends have become very interested in rocket technology. We began testing different solid fuel mixtures in 2017 to find a fuel with optimal thrust. In addition, we worked on automatic parachute deployment on the rocket and have an goal of using actuated canards to keep rockets stable during ascent. To faciliate the thrust test process, I built a web app to easily log new tests from our test stand and visualize the results.
Code: Github
HVeto
In the summer of 2016, I worked with the noise detection group at LIGO (Laser Interfrometric Gravitational-wave Observatory). HVeto, or 'Hierarchical Veto', is an algorithm used by LIGO to rate how significantly correlated noise in channels measuring external sourses (for instance quantum or seismic) is to noise in the main gravitational wave detector. Signals can be filtered out using this measure of correlation. I helped to implement and optimize this method.
Code: Github
Poster of my work: link
Work for Oakwood Friends School
In 2015, I worked for Oakwood Friends School, the Quaker school in upstate New York I had just graduated from. I developed a series of web apps to facilitate student and faculty life using Google Web Apps. Mock-ups of the apps are linked below.
Code: Google Drive
This site
This site is built using Python into a static site. You can see the code for it on Github.
Code: Github
Website: eliasberkowitz.com
Melanie Falick's Website
In 2015, I redesigned Melanie Falick's blog-style Squarespace-based website.
Website: melaniefalick.com
Life Percent Website
This is the first website I ever made; it is a static HTML/Javascript/CSS site. It shows the user the percentage of their life that has passed.
Website: yourlifepercent.com
Code: Github
| Email: | eliberkowitz@gmail.com |