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myermcat/README.md
hi, I'm Mariia typing intro

LinkedIn Resume The Digital Lifecycle Guide

🌈 about me

  • πŸŽ“ Computer Engineering @ University of Ottawa (co-op, Dean's Honours List)
  • πŸ›οΈ built The Digital Lifecycle Guide at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat β€” 30+ pages on how to run a government digital service from birth to retirement, shipped with Cursor, Claude Code, and stubbornness
  • πŸ§‘β€πŸ€β€πŸ§‘ founded the Computer Engineering Students Society at uOttawa and ran a 200+ attendee TED-style conference from scratch
  • πŸ€– co-organized Canada's largest AI hackathon (400+ humans, uncounted agents) with AGI Ventures
  • 🐍 once automated 500+ hours a year of manual work out of existence with 23 Python scripts
  • πŸ”­ in a previous life: 150+ astrophysics Wikipedia articles and published research on variable stars. the stars were also debugged.
  • 🐈 cats. always cats.

🧰 toolbox

Python Java C++ JavaScript HTML/CSS

Android Studio Firebase MySQL Git

Claude Code Cursor Coffee

πŸ› οΈ things I've built

project what it is
πŸ›οΈ digital-lifecycle-guide a guide for running Government of Canada digital services β€” the whole life, Create β†’ Live β†’ Sunset
πŸ“± LocalLoop Android event app; led the dev team; named Best App of the 2025 cohort πŸ†
🎧 whisper-ai-transcriber Python + Whisper: audio in, text out, meetings survived
πŸ“Š BusinessVenueAnalyzer hackathon build that sizes up business venues. self-described: "the best analyzer"
🎬 get-youtube-captions-with-timestamps tiny tool that rips YouTube transcripts, timestamps included

🎲 currently

  • πŸ”§ breaking things at uOttawa to understand them (it's called engineering)
  • πŸ—οΈ growing the CE Students Society into a thing that outlives me
  • πŸ—ΊοΈ figuring out what governments, hackathons, and cats have in common: they all need good infrastructure
a random dev joke, refreshed on every visit

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