I am a software development consultant, UT computer science alum, whose business (advark.tv) was affected by Covid-19. I am looking to offer my skills and knowledge to companies and individuals that need help creating or accelerating their technology development.
With experience spanning from startups to large corporations (HomeAway, Braintree Payments, Hitch), I know how to translate business requirements into designs and product development. I have built native Android and iOS applications, websites, and APIs.
Graduated in August 2021 with a Master of Science in Computer Science
Gradated in May 2018 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
GPA: 3.22/4.0
Graduated Burlington High School (MA) in May 2014 GPA: 3.73/4.0
Lead programmer of FIRST Robotics Team Math Club. National Honor Society
mLSM: Making Authenticated Storage Faster in Ethereum
Nicholas Merlino and Gilad Oved launch an iPhone app to enable users to send the same message to multiple people without creating a group chat.
UT Austin team wins first place at first statewide Texas Shark Tank competition
Jansen Derr and Gilad Oved are accepted into the UT Austin Genesis Program
I've had the opportunity to volunteer for the community through a variety of organizations. With Code Orange, I mentored an elementary school student weekly on how to code using Scratch. In the Longhorn Entrepreneurship Agency, I helped put on events/workshops/talks on campus to engage students in entrepreneurship. With HackTX, a friend and I built the official app for the over 700 student attendees. With 3 Day Startup, I helped run a 72 hour learn-by-doing startup workshop. For the Cambridge Science Festival my team and I were responsible for developing and organizing hands-on STEM events targeted towards middle and high school students. I've completed over 500 volunteer hours through the Burlington Recreation Department, the Rotary Club and the National Honor Society.
gilad.oved10 @ gmail.com
an iOS app to help get your friends together to grab something to eat quickly and easily
Who's Hungry is an app that is meant to streamline the process of getting a group of people together to go out to eat on short notice. When students like you and me only have 1-1.5 hrs to eat, and you don't want to eat alone, texting all of your friends individually, or using group chats can be laborious.
App workflow:
Step 1: Select friends
Step 2: Choose time to meet
Step 3: Vote on the nearest restaurants
Step 4: Confirmation
Step 5: Tracking group members locations as they converge onto the chosen restaurant
Step 6: Chow down
This, removes (entirely) the need for texting to meetup to go get a bite to eat on the fly!
Need a way to text the same message to many people without creating a group chat? Android can do it, why not iOS?
MassSend is a free, convenient, and reliable way to send messages to many people without creating a group chat. All while staying within the comfort of your default smartphone messaging app.
It does not “hold the conversation” within the app but instead is just to send the first message without having to copy and paste to every recipient.
Normally, phones would create a group message, but with this app it will send them individually.
It does not replace the messaging app or act as a new one, it simply is a way to send many messages at once without copying and pasting or creating a group chat.
When inviting a large number of people to an event, sending 50 individual messages is tedious. No one likes to copy and paste that much. This way, type it once, add the recipients, and click send. Easy.
- No hidden fees - Compatible for all iDevices - Send a single message to unlimited recipients without creating a group chat - Automatically uses your phone’s contacts - Works with iMessage, text messaging
Check it out here
iPad App helping students organize large essays with interactive notecards
Let's take out the tedious parts of writing an essay and bring term papers into the 21st century! This app lets you create notecards with topic sentences, points, illustrations (with images! videos coming soon...), citations and explanations. You're able to organize the notecards by color and move them around the screen to help layout your essay.
The data is backed up to the cloud so don't worry about losing what you've written. Once the notecards are done, the app will create an outline based on the order you define and if you're happy with the outline, the app creates the essay (all you need to do then is to write the transition sentences) and the citation page which you can export.
Inspired by Michael Milton
Graphics by Joseph Sateriale
Measure Your Heart Rate Using Your Webcam!
Note: This project was made for educational purposes only. This is not for commercial use. The algorithm is based on the incredible work done at the MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab. Please check out their work here .
This project can monitor a user's heart rate in real time using just a webcam. It is a PPG (Photoplethysmogram) solution based on a color magnification algorithm which makes it possible to see the color of your face change as blood rushes in and out of your head. This project allows you to visualize your face as it pulsates in real time. Since it is able to detect your pulses, it also calculates your heart rate in beats per minute (BPM).
See the source code here
Find the One Odd Pixel Before it Escapes the Screen
iSpy and Where's Waldo... Too easy. Let's see you find one pixel that moves around the screen
Did you see that?? In this thrilling game, you are racing against the clock to find that one black pixel floating around in a sea of millions. Step up to the challenge and find the pixel!
Give it a go here!
educational kids' game to enrich Italian vocabulary
Know some italian words? Guess the word that is missing a letter
Trova la Parola is an educational game for children. The goal is to enrich the italian vocabulary of children by having fun. In every word there is a missing letter, the player must guess and type it on the built in keyboard. There are three chances to guess the correct letter, then you must move on to the next word.
Play the famous Wordle game in Italian
Know some italian words? Guess the mystery word using clues about the characters' order
Guess the 5 letter wordle in 6 attempts. Each guess must be a valid five-letter word. Press the Enter button to send. After each guess, the color of the tiles will change to show how close your guess was to the word.
Play here!
A Raining Macaroni Filter
It's raining macaroni
Currently has over 400k impressions, 8.5 captures and 2.5k shares
Try it out here
Guess the stolen item
Play What's Missing, a fun educational game to strengthen your memory!
You get 10 seconds to memorize all the items on the table. Then, you have to guess which item was taken. Sounds easy but it is an addicting challenge for kids and adults. Great game for the whole family with easy, medium and hard levels! Give it a shot!
How to play
Feel free to check it out here!
Family Fun Arcade Game
Watch out for others. Find & use power-ups to stay in the game. Each level gets more difficult
Beware those that chase you. How long can you last? Family fun arcade game for all ages!
Try it out here