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George Karabassis

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Get to know me!

I'm a Greek student, currently studying Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh.

I was born in London (holding a British Citizenship), from Greek parents. At 4, we moved to Greece to be closer with my grandparents and I grew up in the south of Athens. At 16, me and my parents moved to Kent and I completed my higher education (A Levels), where I eventually moved to Edinburgh to study Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence.

During my study, I explored multiple things, including being part of multiple student societies, such as HypED, a student lead project based at the University of Edinburgh with aim to create the first Hyperloop transportation system in the UK, volunteered as a student representative in my 2nd year and being accepted to J.P. Morgan Spring week programme full of activities and work shadowing.

While not studying, I enjoy working on cool ideas I come up with. For instance, I created the most detailed vaccine & Covid-19 tracking website in May 2020, which received more than 30 Million visits which was also picked up by the news. I also found myself with some great people when I participated in a Coding & Innovation type of competition (Hackathon) in summer 2020. Together me and my team won and got recognized by Google. Since October 2021, I started working as a Web Developer Freelancer alongside my studies, where I helped 100s of clients around the globe, from offering programming lessons to developing full-scale web applications by converting their ideas into a reality.

My strongest passion is converting cool ideas into a reality with the aim to help people make their lives better and easier. I am always looking forward to my next challenge!

Say hi, if you love my journey and what I'm doing!

A wee timeline

Born in London, UK

2014 (May)

Won a National School Short film Competition

2015 (May)

Won a second National School Short film Competition

2015 (June)

Moved to the UK

2016 (January)

Assisted Year 11 (GCSE) Math Students (till May 2016)

2017 (June)

Volunteered as an IT technician at my school (till May 2017)

2017 (August)

Accepted to study at the University of Edinburgh

2017 (September)

Manager of the Programming/Electrical team for the student lead Augment Bionics project at the University of Edinburgh

2018 (June)

3D Assets designer at Cabochon Games. Working as an online team, developing a Galactic-type game.

2018 (September)

Accommodation Support Officer at CRM students.

2018 (September)

Software Engineer at HypED. A Hyperloop student-lead society in the University of Edinburgh

2018 (September)

Student Class representative at 2nd year Informatics School.

2019 (January)

College Quality Assurance Committee at College and Engineering School within the University of Edinburgh

2019 (July)

Part of the HypED team, we reached to finals for the Hyperloop Pod Competition organized by Elon Musk in the SpaceX headquarters.

2020 (May)

Launched NCovTrack - the most detailed COVID-19 & Vaccine tracking Dashboard.

2020 (August)
2020 (December)

Accepted to the Google Cloud Mentorship program, recognizing our result from the Hackathon.

2021 (February)

Held my very first TV interview, happened in KRGV Channel 4 in Amarillo, Texas.

2021 (October)

Began my Web Developer Freelancing Journey.

2023 (June & July)

Taking Marketing & Finance courses at the American College of Greece.

Portfolio

Working on numerous projects, allowed me to expand my horizons and discover new areas which I never thought I would enjoy. I participated in many team projects, with purpose to develop my communication and team-working skills, but also solo projects, with goal to improve my skills.

Projects/Work

Personal work

What do I do in my spare time? I love doing individual work to improve my skills in a particular area.

Artwork

I enjoy creating artwork and animations, mainly when it comes to video game design and creating designs of how a project may roughly look like at the end of its production. Click here to see my designs!

I help you!

Oh, I also enjoy sharing my knowledge to others as helping each other is the only way humanity moves forward. I sometimes answer your questions on Quora.

Volunteers

Meet the people who have helped me shape my website.

Experience

How well am I trained? Below you may see my abilities and technical skills.

Programming Languages

  • HTML

  • CSS

  • JavaScript

  • PHP

  • SQL

  • Python

  • C++

  • Java

  • Swift

  • C

  • Haskell

  • MIPS (Assembly)

  • C#

  • Pascal

Framework/Library/API

  • Bootstrap (CSS)

  • Laravel (PHP)

  • Node.js (JS Back-End)

  • Express.js (JS Back-End)

  • React Native (JS, App Dev)

  • jQuery (JS)

  • YouTube API

  • NumPy (Python)

  • Matplotlib (Python)

Languages

  • Greek (Native)

  • English (second language)

  • Spanish (Learning)

  • French (very basic)

Hit me up!

Do I fit in your needs and wanna create something amazing together? Let's turn the burning idea into reality by dropping me a wee message!