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notes & wins
The builds, the events, the wins — and the weeks where nothing worked.
Awarded the Alfreds Raisters Scholarship
The RTU Development Fund backed my student-community work — one more reason to keep building for students.
My first on-site product build: a photo booth that ran all week
International Design Factory Week in Riga — presenting Twinital, and a custom photo booth that clicked 800+ photos.
Demoing 3D scanning to an EU Commissioner
Valdis Dombrovskis visited our lab at RTU — I showed our 3D scanning and digital prototyping work.
Leading GDG on Campus at RTU
Selected by Google as the GDG lead — RTU is the only university in Latvia with a GDG on Campus.
I organised my first tech event — and wasn't sure anyone would show up
FTC26: 180+ registrations in 7 days, 120+ students in the room. No prizes, no competition — just a conversation about AI and the future of work.
Riga, are you ready for the future?
Announcing FTC26: speakers from Microsoft, Accenture, TEDx and the AI ecosystem — June 15 at RTU.
HearMe won the Mid-Term Pitch at FBCI
Four months at the Future Business Community Incubator — and a pitch win for our accessible-communication platform.
HearMe takes 3rd at the Future Venture Lab final pitch
A semester of workshops, mentoring and user interviews — and 3rd place at the final entrepreneurial pitch.
Best Team Award at FinQuest
From 25 teams to the finals — then Best Team among 15 finalists with SpendSense, a financial-awareness tool.
When the best choice stops being best — a research paper from CERN IdeaSquare
A Dynamic AHP model that finds the exact moment one option overtakes another. Presented at the RTU Alumni Young Researchers Conference.
Twinital: an immersive digital twin for professors — MVP in 3 months
From an ambitious idea to a working AI twin — with the very first "experiment bunny" being the professor herself.
Volunteering at AI Summit Europe
The conversation about AI has changed — from fear to “how do we build with it?”
3 things I 'failed' at this week
Distorted avatars, an editor I don’t know how to build yet, and stitching open-source models into one real-time pipeline.
A multi-agent AI fraud detection system in 6 hours
Reply Mirror AI Agent Challenge: memory, narrative and consensus agents with an LLM judge on top.
~75% of code is now AI-generated — notes from a session on agentic AI
From prompt-based AI to agents that plan and execute — and why education needs to evolve fast.
Out of our comfort zone: jumping out of space with Unity
An RTU Innovations challenge that pushed a team of IT students way beyond code — and we built more versions than we were asked for.
Gemini Certified Student by Google for Education
A foundation in Google's AI tools for education — and one more step into AI/ML.
NASA 101 #5 — smart developers track their sources
Zotero, Mendeley and why good developers give proper credit.
Bad Idea Fund Hackathon: an agent that sends invoices from one sentence
TechChill × Anthropic — call an operator, say "invoice this contact", and the agent does the rest. 3rd place.
NASA 101 #4 — documenting how you built it
Protocols.io and why reproducible workflows make work scalable.
NASA 101 #3 — the power of open data
Zenodo, Dataverse, and why the future belongs to developers who use existing data smartly.
AI isn't replacing developers — it's changing what they do
Engineer + architect + AI operator: why thinking in systems beats memorising frameworks.
NASA 101 #2 — writing code that explains itself
Code + explanation + output = reproducible research.
Students study systems. Engineers build them.
Why most CS students are learning the wrong things — and the fix: ship something every month.
NASA 101 #1 — version control is your thinking history
Commits as a timeline of decisions, branches as fearless experiments.
Students aren't just learning AI — they're building with it
Build → test → fail → improve → repeat. Why the next wave of startups will come from student builders.
Completed NASA's Open Science course
Open science, open data, open code — and how closely modern research connects with good development practice.
Reading research papers is an underrated skill
Innovation happens where research meets implementation.
From autocomplete to autonomous agents
Developers who work well with AI will outperform those who don't.
5 days in Cyprus, long-term impact
Erasmus+ BIP: AI and VR workshops — and what working in international teams really teaches you.
Taking the longest route: a semantic course matcher
Instead of comparing course catalogs by hand for Erasmus, I built a crawler + embeddings pipeline to do it.
Rebuilding history with AI and 360° cameras
A Cyprus challenge: capture heritage sites in Limassol, then recreate them in immersive digital form.
Completed "Learning Docker"
Containers, images and containerised application workflows.
We want to hear from the Deaf community
Early HearMe: validating the idea with real users before building more.
Kourion Amphitheatre: ancient engineering
2,000 years ago, engineers mastered acoustics without digital simulation.
Persistence pays off: Kubernetes in Google Cloud
Failed one lab three times, kept going — and finished the whole learning path.
Generative AI in academia: structure over hype
AI shouldn't be banned. It shouldn't be blindly trusted either. It must be structured.
Selected for Future Venture Lab
While BCI focuses on prototyping, FVL focuses on validation — real interviews, real market data.
Day 1 in Cyprus: inside the virtual world
VR headsets, 360° environments and smart wearables — and how they actually work underneath.
HearMe: an AI sign-language communication platform
Real-time video calls + AI sign-language recognition, built on Microsoft Azure.
HearMe selected for the Business Community Incubator
RTU's Student Innovation Grant: prototypes, industry mentors — and a scholarship to build.
Cyprus BIP: navigating AI-driven digital worlds
An Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme at Cyprus University of Technology.
Joined the Google Cloud × NVIDIA developer community
Cloud, AI/ML and GPU-accelerated tech — through the Google Developer Program.
Building HearMe: accessibility in the architecture, not as an add-on
Speech-to-text, text-to-sign, sign-language avatars and role-based modes — our Imagine Cup 2026 entry.
Prototyping at CERN IdeaSquare
Not building hardware — building structured, defendable solutions under constraints.
CERN Control Centre & the ATLAS control room
If ATLAS is the brain of discovery, this is the nervous system — science that runs 24/7.
Inside CERN's Antimatter Factory
Why is the universe made of matter at all? Standing where that question is tested.
Visiting ATLAS during my CERN IdeaSquare traineeship
Standing next to one of the largest particle detectors in the world — science at this scale is never individual.
The SC AD Cyclotron: slowing antimatter down
Low-energy precision physics — where theory meets superconducting engineering.
CERN Science Gateway
Making complex physics accessible to everyone.
Linear optimisation inside a space-sustainability model
Maximise system value while cutting satellite load — under real-world constraints.
Where the World Wide Web was born
Standing where Tim Berners-Lee invented the web in 1989.
Reducing 55,000 satellites without breaking civilisation
Cut the constellation by ~60% — without collapsing navigation, climate monitoring or disaster warning.
Can we remove 1,000 debris objects per year?
Not "can we remove debris?" but "can we scale removal sustainably?"
What is the Kessler Syndrome — and why it matters
One collision, thousands of fragments, and an orbit that becomes unusable.
Starting as Technical Innovation Assistant at RTU
Joining the Innovation and Technology Transfer division at RTU Science and Innovation Centre.
7 days at CERN. One planetary problem.
Orbital sustainability: three future scenarios, 55–66% fewer satellites, and a unified strategy by day seven.
Climathon 2025: ShareMyCycle — a gamified cycling ecosystem for campus
Free bikes, live KM tracking, streaks and rewards — cutting campus CO₂ one ride at a time.
Selected for the Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme
AI-driven digital technologies with students from across Europe — at Cyprus University of Technology.
Joined the Google Developer Program
New tools, resources and a global developer community.
A Tic-Tac-Toe game in vanilla JavaScript
Turns, win and draw detection, reset — and my first deploy on GitHub Pages.
An Amazon homepage clone in pure HTML & CSS
Navigation, search, a grid-based product layout and footer — no frameworks.
J.P. Morgan software engineering virtual experience
Fixing a broken repo and streaming a live trading data feed with Perspective.
Goldman Sachs software engineering virtual experience
Cracking weak password hashes with Hashcat — and writing the memo to fix it.