Luke Burgess-Yeo

Luke Burgess-Yeo

London, England, United Kingdom
93 followers 90 connections

About

Software engineer using .NET and JavaScript.

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Experience

Education

  • University of York Graphic

    University of York

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    Activities and Societies: Ultimate Frisbee, University Radio York, York Slackline Society, University of York Swing Dance Society.

    • Overall degree mark of 81%.
    • Highest final year project mark in my year.
    • Active member of many student societies.
    • Captain of the Ultimate Frisbee team for one year and committee member of several other societies.

Volunteer Experience

  • The Scout Association Graphic

    Young Leader

    The Scout Association

    - 4 years 1 month

    Worked as a Young Leader, helping to run activities at my local Scout group for four years. I gained a large amount of organisational and leadership experience during this time.

  • Royal Air Force Air Cadets Graphic

    Cadet Corporal

    Royal Air Force Air Cadets

    - 4 years 3 months

    As a Cadet Corporal I helped organise activities as my local Air Training Corps Squadron. I gained a large amount of leadership experience during this time.

  • World Flying Disc Federation Graphic

    Game Advisor

    World Flying Disc Federation

    - Present 9 years 1 month

    Worked as a Game Advisor at the World Under 23 Ultimate Championships 2015 in London and the World Ultimate and Guts Championships 2016 also in London. I gained a communication skills, organisational skills and teamwork skills; working as part of a team of Game Advisors.

Projects

  • The Kore Directive

    - Present

    The Kore Directive is a network of women working in the speciality coffee industry in London. The website allows users to learn about The Kore and it's values, as well as create an account to view and book places at events.

    See project
  • The Ultimate Data Project

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    A application for tracking stats during a game of ultiamte frisbee. Built as a static website using ReactJS with Material UI.

    See project
  • Bruu Good Coffee - Speciality Coffee Blog

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    Potentially the world's most performant speciality coffee blog. Built as a fully optimised, static, single page React application using Gatsby static site generator and Netlify CMS for content management.

    See project
  • Automorphisms of Spherical Buildings

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    The final year project from my undergraduate degree at the University of York. In this project we investigated a method for imposing additional structure onto spherical buildings, with a view towards solving an open conjecture of Jacques Tits dating back to the 1950's.

    Notably, the project involved implementing a the structure-imposing algorithm in Python and visualising the output using Processing. See the linked GitHub repo for more details.

    Other creators
    • Dr. Michael Bate
    See project

Honors & Awards

  • Kathleen Ryan Project Prize

    University of York Mathematics Department

    Awarded for the highest marked final year project in the year group.

  • York Sport Full Colours

    York Sport Union

    Awarded for playing for the University of York Ultimate Frisbee first team during my whole undergraduate career at York University, and making an outstanding contribution to the development and success of the club.

Languages

  • English

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  • Mandarin

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