Thor Anderskow

tanderskow@gmail.com | www.thoranderskow.com | www.github.com/thoranderskow |

Education

University of Chicago – Undergraduate, Chicago IL        Sept 2017-June 2021

• Major: Computer Science, B.A. (GPA: 3.3)
• Programming Coursework: Theory of Algorithms, Software Development, Computer Systems, Databases, Networks, Computer Security, Discrete Mathematics

Employment

Software Engineer                                             Tempus Labs, Inc.        October 2021 - Present

Data-Driven Precision Medicine (Tempus.com) Chicago, USA         

• Working on a team that builds web applications to support lab processing
• Backend work in NestJS, creating front end components with Typescript and React

Software Engineer Intern                                   Think Analytics        July 2019 - September 2019

Personalized Content Delivery Software (thinkanalytics.com) Glasgow, UK         

• Created a ReactJS app using Elasticsearch to get movie poster from internal database to assist with movie lookup
• Queried the Google Vision API to return entities found within the poster to speed up movie genre tagging
• Used Python to create data visualizations of all entities found in trailers and hosted on a Flask server

Software Projects

Personal Website: www.thoranderskow.com (for additional information)

Virtual Reality Art Gallery (thoranderskow.github.io/final/)          June 2021

• Used RunwayML to generate art from Machine Learning Models
• Developed a Virtual Reality Art Gallery using A-Frame to host the art in a way impossible in real life

Gym Availability Web App (gymjam.vercel.app)           July 2020

• Developed a NextJS(ReactJS framework) web application to allow users to comment on UChicago gyms
• Incorporated MongoDB to store all user comments, level of fullness, and availability of basketball courts

Card Shuffling Simulation Web App (shuffle-site.herokuapp.com)        April 2020

• Developed a ReactJS web app that allows users to virtually shuffle a hand of five cards
• Incorporated Firebase to store each hand and check if that hand has been shuffled before

Awards and Honors

Capgemini RISE consulting program         August 2020

Neubauer Adelante Hispanic Summer Scholar, University of Chicago        July 2017

Skills

Programming languages: Python, Javascript, HTML, CSS, ReactJs, NestJs, SQL, Git