Isabelle Viktoria Maciohsek

I'm Isabelle Maciohsek, a software engineer from Athens, Greece. I love learning new things, especially when they involve programming, data science and visualizations. My day job involves working with Java and SQL, while in my spare time I play around with Python, JavaScript, React and C#.

Skills: Python, SQL, JavaScript, Git, C#

• Part of a team responsible for implementing and supporting Business Process Management and Enterprise Content Management applications running on the IBM Filenet Platform
• Implementation of SQL-based (SQL Server 2014) management reports with application data retrieval
• Coordination of Java application testing (Unit Test, Integration Test, User Acceptance Test)
• Investigation and Resolution of Production Support Issues
• Monitoring and Modification of existing Business Processes

• Tutor for middle and high school students (7th, 8th, 9th and 10th grade) in Mathematics (Algebra and Geometry)
• Tutor and candidate preparation for the Panhellenic University Entrance Examinations in the Computer Science subjects "Application Development in Programming Environment"

• Maintain, upgrade and replace electronic equipment and software
• Support and Troubleshooting
• Development and maintenance of website

• Support and Troubleshooting
• Maintain, upgrade and replace electronic equipment and software

I studied Intelligent Technologies for Human-Computer Interaction, learning more about emerging technologies and advancing my knowledge of programming and computer science concepts. During this time, I became more familiar with Big Data, Hadoop, Spark and Python, as well as mobile development on the Android platform and C# development in Unity combined with AI tools such as Unity ML-Agents Toolkit, Anaconda and TensorFlow. My dissertation was titled "Applied neural networks in video games: a case study of ML – Agents in Unity" (available here in Greek).

I studied various core concepts of programming and computer science, such as algorithms, database, programming languages and artificial intelligence, while my focus was Software Technologies & Intelligent Systems. During this time, I learnt to code in C++, Java, C#, HTML, JavaScript and SQL, developing various projects and applications, oftentimes integrating SQL databases. For my thesis, I developed a Tourist Guide of Piraeus in the form of an Android application.

I have completed a 4-day closed workshop, taught by Chintan Doshi, covering the following topics:

• Agile at Scale using Azure DevOps Services
• Source Control Management using Git
• Test-Driven Development (TDD) & Shift-Left Testing
• Feature Flag Development with LaunchDarkly
• Continuous Integration with Azure Container Registry
• Continuous Delivery Pipeline Development
• Application Monitoring with Application Insights

I have partially completed freeCodeCamp's full-stack certification, earning 3 of the 6 available certifications:

• JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures
• Responsive Web Design
• Scientific Computing with Python

I have completed the following Elastic Training courses:

• ECE Fundamentals
• Observability Fundamentals
• Kibana Fundamentals
• Introduction to Observability: Logging

I have completed several courses on CognitiveClass.ai, collecting IBM Digital Badges - profile:

• Introduction to Data Science
• Data Science Methodology
• Data Science Hands-On with Open Source Tools
• Python 101 for Data Science
• Data Analysis with Python
• Data Visualization with Python
• SQL and Relational Databases 101
• NoSQL and DBaaS 101

I have been certified by Skillsoft after completing various following courses. Here are some of the most relevant to my current interests and skills:

• JavaScript: Advanced Function Operations
• JavaScript: Closures & Prototypes
• JavaScript: Working with the DOM & Events
• SQL Server 2016 - Data Types & Normalization
• SQL Server 2016 - Index Design Guidelines
• SQL Server 2016 - Designing & Implementing Views
• NoSQL - Concepts & Background
• Reactive Programming Using Redux
• Python - Using Pandas to Work with Series & DataFrames

I have completed various Udemy courses, learning important skills or honing existing ones. Here are some of the most relevant to my current interests and skills:

• Learn to Code in Python 3: Programming beginner to advanced
• MongoDB Essentials - Understand the Basics of MongoDB
• MongooseJS Essentials - Learn MongoDB for Node.js
• Introduction to Databases and SQL Querying
• Database Design and Management
• Learn React in 1 Hour

I am the creator of Can My Dog Eat, a simple website where you can look up information for over 100 types of food in regards to feeding them to your dog. Most common food types are included along with a breakdown of what, why and how to feed them to your dog. The app is built with React and TailwindCSS and is designed to be fully responsive on all platforms.

I am the creator of dishmi, an e-Menu application which provides an easy way to create an electronic menu for a restaurant, cafe or bar to improve customer experience. The app is built with Gatsby, React and TailwindCSS and supports multiple features such as multimedia content, tagging and categorization and is designed to be fully responsive on all platforms.

I am the co-creator of boardeaux, a currently in-development productivity application that lets you add, track and organize notes not unlike Trello and other available web apps. The application is built with React and employs browser technologies to provide a secure and seamless experience between sessions, storing user data completely on the client-side. This allows users to have full control of their data, without the need for a server-side storage solution.

I am an active maintainer and contributor of the 30 seconds of code team. My core responsibilites as a mainter include, but are not limited to:

• Content creation in the form of snippets (JavaScript, Python & C#) and blogs
• Quality curation, indexing, testing and maintenance of existing code, content and documentation
• Community management in the form of PR reviews
• Research and development

During the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, I developed COVID-19-Greece, a Python-generated website for visualizing the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) data for Greece. The application is built with Flash and Google Charts, while it draws data from COVID-19 Data Repository by Johns Hopkins University via the use of git submodules and GitHub Actions to refresh the chart data daily.