Shay Schwartzburd

The portfolio website that I use to summarize my career and as a pallet for uploading various spare-time projects I've been working on, testing out, and playing around using new technologies.

As an avid gamer, I've always thought of creating a video game instead of playing it. This is where that vision comes to life.

The game won second place in Unity's July showcase competition and is available on the web, PC, and mobile.

"Utilize nothing but gravity as you set up your initial conditions to lead your ship on an interstellar journey across space!"

The Public Knowledge Workshop is an effort to apply technology to enhance democracy and empower citizens. The workshop contains a few open-source projects, including "Anyway," which aims to reduce road accidents by raising public awareness of existing road hazards, leading towards safer road behavior, and collaborating with authorities to assist and drive to find solutions in light of "Vision Zero." Such solutions will improve road infrastructure and behavioral problems to prevent road fatalities.

The coding project consists of an interactive map that presents locations and information regarding traffic accidents, including casualties, information originating from the Central Bureau of Statistics, and traffic violations reported by road vigilantes. The website allows visitors to discuss possible solutions in their residential or drive zone to develop field solutions by both drivers and pedestrians, on both local and national scope.

My role as a contributor has been to help maintain and improve code quality, implement new features and widgets, and implement and bootstrap new data collection techniques such as enhancing location accuracy.

In my spare time, I've conceptualized, designed, and built a travel guide app for backpackers. This 2-year process included learning development and design for Android from scratch, integrating various technologies and APIs to a single project, building server-side support, and eventually creating an MVP.