Henry Haefliger

Dear Visitors,

I am so glad to have you here!

Let me begin by introducing myself. I was born in April 2003 in Geneva, Switzerland. My mother is American and my father is Swiss.

In 2010, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to move to Shanghai, China, where I lived until 2017. It is also here that I met Mr. Cressey, my math and computer science teacher in sixth grade, who led me to fall in love with technology.

I have always had a passion for understanding and building things, but this is where my journey with computers began...

It has been a while since 2014, and we have all probably come a long way in the last few years. I personally have had countless opportunities to break things, experiment, learn and create.

I have not, however, diminished in my curiosity. Some of my projects are scattered around the place or seem somewhat janky, but this is merely a symptom of exploration and I look forward to continuing this relentlessly, wherever it may lead.

When I do manage to surgically remove my face from my monitor (not literally of course 😁), I enjoy running, travelling (I have been to 17 countries so far), nature, music and debates.

There is an infinite number of people who have helped me to arrive where I am today. I have tried my best to compile a non-comprehensive list here.

If you are interested in talking to me, you can do so using this form. I am sure that I have more to learn from you than you do from me!

Best Regards,

Henry Haefliger

P.S. If you are interested in finding out more about me you can scroll down.

Skills

Languages

Native English and French speaker.
Basic proficiency in German.
Elementary knowledge of Mandarin.

Programming Languages

Extensive knowledge and experience using Python3.
Experience in web development and deployment using HTML, CSS and Javascript.
Experience developing and launching RESTful API's using PHP.
Familiar with SQL and PHPMyAdmin.
Basic knowledge of C++ and C.

Frameworks

Broad experience developing machine learning models using Tensorflow and Keras.
Some experience using web development frameworks such as jQuery and Bootstrap 4 along with software such as Bootstrap Studio.

Experience

Kairos Society - Talent

November 2020 - Present

Selected by Kairos Society Europe to join a group of world leaders in solving the world's biggest problems.

Acuit Solutions - Owner and Developer

March 2020 - Present

Designing and building websites and machine learning tools for small businesses with another student.
Designed and deployed a bootstrap website to serve as a homepage (acuit.ch).

Medium.com - Writer

September 2019 - Present

Writing articles about various technology-related topics and explanations of my open-source code.
Featured in ‘QuickCode’ ‘What every developer or programmer should be reading this month’ list.
Published in largest publication on the site (‘The Startup’, 630k+ followers).
Over 3,500 monthly readers.

All3DP.com - Technical Writer

December 2019 - November 2020

Writing articles about 3D printing and manufacturing related topics for the world’s #1 3D printing magazine.

Google, Qualcomm, Intuitive, Apple - Work Experience

June 2019 - June 2019

Shadowed engineers in Silicon Valley technology companies.

Shinnecock Yacht Club - Junior Sailing Instructor

Summers 2017, 2018, 2019

Managed and increased the organization of daily courses of various levels for children from 4-12 years.
Maintained and repaired equipment around the club.

Handivoile, Swiss Disabled Sailing - Volunteer

March 2018 - August 2019

Took persons with various mental and physical disabilities sailing on lake Geneva.
Helped organize and facilitate open days.

Education

University of Geneva

September 2019 - Present

Selected for ATHENA program (allows high school students to attend an receive credits for university courses).
Successfully completed "Optical Detection of Atmospheric Pollution" and obtained a grade of 5.5/6.
Successfully completed the "MIT PRIMES-Switzerland" program (MIT/UNIGE/SwissMAP).
Currently pursuing "Electrodynamics".

Institut Florimont

August 2017 - June 2021

Suisse Maturité Diploma (Bilingual French-English).
Travail de Maturité: Development of a virtual assistant
and its applications in society (Machine learning in speech recognition, NLP and speech synthesis using Keras and Tensorflow).
Classes: Advanced Math, OS Physics and Math Applications, OC Chemistry, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, French, English, German, History, Geography, Philosophy, Art and Art History, Introduction to economy and law.

The Internet

Always

Stack Exchange, GitHub, Quora, Wikipedia, YouTube, Arxiv, Google Scholar, Medium and just about anything else you can find using a search engine!
I truly believe that the internet is the best and most accessible place to learn whatever you want.

Awards

Swiss Futurpreneur - Winner

September 2020

Developed an idea to use machine learning and image processing to allow persons with amputated limbs to better interact with technology (e.g. using a virtual gesture keyboard to type).
Won a national competition hosted by Goodwall and Genilem.
You can find my elevator pitch here.

Moonshot Pirates #beapirate Challenge - Finalist

June 2020 - July 2020

Worked in a team of three to develop an autonomous system for underwater waste collection.
Personally developed the garbage detection model using weakly supervised learning (GradCAM) and contributed to the classification algorithm.
Wrote a pitch and worked on a one minute demo video to demonstrate our idea to judges and external voters.
You can find more information here.

Projects

PersonalAssistant

github.com

Developed a digital assistant from scratch using tensorflow and keras.
40 page long accompanying write-up

A.S.W.A.P - Aquation

moonshotpirates.com

Used weakly supervised learning to develop an underwater waste detection model.

CancerNN

github.com

A machine learning model to recognize malignant and benign skin cancers from only a picture.

PyEngine3D

github.com

A simple module built using only the python3 standard library to display 3D graphics with interactive options.
By far my most popular project, several people have reached out to me to either ask questions or suggest improvements

PyTerrain

github.com