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              <p>Wrapping up two and a half years as software engineer at <a href="https://www.luno.com/" target="_blank">Luno</a>, working mostly in Go (which, IMHO, is a pretty great language). Looking for new opportunities as a Backend engineer, preferably in London, ideally in Go, but I'm not fussy about languages. </p>
              <p>Run the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/gocapetown" target="_blank">Go Cape Town Meetup</a>, new members always welcome, speakers even more so, send me an email if you want to speak.</p>


              <p>Did some Hackathons: won Luno's <a href="https://www.luno.com/blog/en/post/luno-hackathon-2019" target="_blank">crypto hackathon</a> solo, and participated as an individual in <a href="https://www.offerzen.com/blog/offerzen-hackathon-building-root-apps-to-hackbehaviour" target="_blank">#hackbehaviour</a> and with a team for <a href="https://www.offerzen.com/blog/sandbox-for-insurtech-bridging-the-gap-between-insurers-and-innovators" target="_blank">an insurance hackathon</a>.</p>

              <p>Mantain a small static site for <a href="http://sheisstrong.org/" target="_blank">She is Strong</a>, helping however I can.</p>

              <p>Have an Honours degree from the University of Cape Town in Computer Science and Bachelors in Computer Science and Computer Games Development.</p>

              <p>Completed internships at Facebook (twice), Amazon and BrandsEye.</p>

              <p>Used to be chairperson of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/uctdev/" target="_blank">UCT Dev Soc</a>, a tutor for the Computer Science Department and did some freelance work for the <a href="http://kysabymf.herokuapp.com/" target="_blank">Percy Fitzpatrick Institute</a>.</p>

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              <p>Details of my Honours project (in collaboration with the Astronomy department at UCT) can be found <a href="http://calvinbrizzi.com/visastro/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>

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                <li>Site created for the Percy Fitzpatrick Institute during my first year at University: <a href="http://kysabymf.herokuapp.com/" target="_blank">try it here</a>, (code not public)</li>
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              <p>Infrastructure engineer at <a href="https://www.memrise.com/jobs/">Memrise</a>, hit me up if you want to know what it's like to work here.</p>
              <p>Before that I was a backend engineer at <a href="https://www.luno.com/" target="_blank">Luno</a>, working mostly in Go (which, IMHO, is a pretty great language), and used to run the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/gocapetown" target="_blank">Go Cape Town Meetup</a>, new members always welcome, speakers even more so, send them a message.</p>


              <p>Did some Hackathons: won Luno's <a href="https://www.luno.com/blog/en/post/luno-hackathon-2019" target="_blank">crypto hackathon</a> solo, and participated as an individual in <a href="https://www.offerzen.com/blog/offerzen-hackathon-building-root-apps-to-hackbehaviour" target="_blank">#hackbehaviour</a> and with a team for <a href="https://www.offerzen.com/blog/sandbox-for-insurtech-bridging-the-gap-between-insurers-and-innovators" target="_blank">an insurance hackathon</a>.</p>

              <p>Mantain a small static site for <a href="http://sheisstrong.org/" target="_blank">She is Strong</a>, helping however I can.</p>

              <p>Have an Honours degree from the University of Cape Town in Computer Science and Bachelors in Computer Science and Computer Games Development.</p>

              <p>Completed internships at Facebook (twice), Amazon and BrandsEye.</p>

              <p>Used to be chairperson of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/uctdev/" target="_blank">UCT Dev Soc</a>, a tutor for the Computer Science Department and did some freelance work for the <a href="http://kysabymf.herokuapp.com/" target="_blank">Percy Fitzpatrick Institute</a>.</p>

              <h4 id="projects">projects</h4>

              <p>Details of my Honours project (in collaboration with the Astronomy department at UCT) can be found <a href="http://calvinbrizzi.com/visastro/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>

              <p>My <a href="https://github.com/calvin-brizzi/" target="_blank">github profile</a> has random examples of code, some highlights include:</p>

              <ul>
                <li>Group visualization project on YouTube trend data: <a href="https://people.cs.uct.ac.za/~mcgbri004/vis-project/visualization.html" target="_blank">see it here</a>, <a href="https://github.com/Brian-McG/YouTube-Trends" target="_blank">code here</a></li>
                <li>Site created for the Percy Fitzpatrick Institute during my first year at University: <a href="http://kysabymf.herokuapp.com/" target="_blank">try it here</a>, (code not public)</li>
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