Software Engineer
I am Con Kirby, a passionate 18-year-old software engineer who loves creating projects. I have hand-coded the following portfolio projects and write ups, explaining what I have done and how I did them.
I hope you enjoy exploring my projects as much as I have 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 have 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 have 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 have created projects concerning population prediction, logic games, and semiconductor yield where I train AI models to predict various outcomes.