About Melvin Roest
In a mere two hours, Melvin was productive in the codebase I worked on. ~ Timothy Tjen Alooi (Full Stack Developer)
Melvin is crazy in a positive sense. ~ Prof. Dr. Anton Eliëns (warning confusing website ahead!)
Melvin inspires people to accelerate their education. ~ The University Newspaper - Ad Valvas
Portfolio Highlights
At university I gained experience in (Game, Web & App) Development », Education » and Psychology ». For work related experience, see my LinkedIn.
Development
- Check out my home grown computer graphics engine! (YouTube, 2 min.)
- Once upon a time I prototyped a game in Unity3D (YouTube, 5 min.)
- Me demonstrating how to do: SQL injections, CSRF (stealing cookies), XSS, hacking encryption, reverse engineering a binary with GDB and IDA Pro hunting for a secret key (YouTube, Dutch language, 52 min.)
- Understand the science behind sentiment analysis on Twitter (PDF)
Education
- I worked as a teaching assistant, teaching fellow and part-time lecturer at both universities in Amsterdam.
- I performed experiments on accelerating my own education. My biggest success has been attaining a bachelor degree in 2 years. In total, I studied for 8 years in time, obtained about 10.5 years worth of subjects. I have diploma's for 9 years (+ cum laude & honors) and have 2 years of full-time work experience and have been active as a board member of 3 student organizations (ESN, Ace Connect and Techclub). With a simple tweak I could have done this in 6 years, provided I knew the results of my final big experiment.
Psychology articles written by me
- I wrote my thesis on hypermedia (and frustration detection) (Link)
- I wrote an article about the science behind intuition (PDF)
- I wrote an article about the science behind frustrated gamers (PDF)
Let's have a chat
To prevent automated bots from chasing me across the interwebs I made a riddle about my email address. My email provider is gmail.com
Here is the riddle: [first name][last name][at][email provider]