Software Engineer
I'm Con Kirby, a passionate 18-year-old software engineer who loves creating projects. I've hand-coded the following portfolio projects and write ups, explaining what I've done and how I did them.
I hope you enjoy exploring my projects as much as I've enjoyed creating them!
I am extremely excited to be part of Patch '25, where I can collaborate with like-minded individuals and push the boundaries of what's possible in tech.
I believe that AI is the future, and I am committed to being at the forefront of this exciting field. I love exploring new AI technologies and finding innovative ways to integrate them into my projects.
Apart from creating projects, I've also competed and achieved in various fields from sports to academics.
I am a three time All-Ireland Junior Chess Champion who has represented Ireland abroad on 7 different occasions, 3 of those being to the European Youth Chess Championships, including this trip to Romania.
I hold 2 piano diplomas, one in piano performance and another in piano teaching from the London College of Music at the University of West London.
I won a Munster Medal with Limerick Minor Gaelic Football as well as winning three All-Ireland Basketball Championships, one with my school, and two with Limerick Celtics at u18 and u20.
I took part in the Computer Science CTYI EUE program in DCU during Transition Year. This is where my love for Computer Science began.
I am delighted to have won TECS '24. My project focused on aiding piano teachers with their profession with tech.
My project focused on providing a player with a score, and then stream processing the notes they actually played. I compared the scores and gave back an accuracy report as well as a copy of the sheet music that was played correctly.
I used sub-processes, analytics, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to aid in the decision making process.
I built an Web App with React.js that converted hand-written work into text and then graded it using ChatGPt through the OpenAI API.
I created a pairs trading algorithm that tests whether securities are cointegrated or not and then tracked their spread.
I've created websites for clients, including this one: kirbypartners.ie
While interning at Holland Digital, I gained valuable experience in software development, working on real-world projects with a team. One of which involved using access tokens and URLs to copy folders recursively on Sharepoint.
I trained a Convolutional Neural Network to classify whether a picture of a given skin lesion was benign or malignant.
I stream-processed audio from a keyboard and returned an accuracy score based on the notes played.
I created a program to record 40 yard dash split times and used Machine Learning to predict missing values.
I've created projects concerning population prediction, logic games, and semiconductor yield where I train AI models to predict various outcomes.