Laura Masselos

Goldman Sachs

Engineer for the Securities Division • June, 2019 — August, 2019

Development of a test suite investigating system clock behavior under different failure scenarios combining Network Time Protocol with Precision Time Protocol.

21 Theatre

Production Assistant • July — August, 2017

In charge of looking after costumes, set, lighting, and marketing for three productions at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

University of Edinburgh

Computer Science, BSc (2.1) • 2016 — 2020

Student Representative for the School of Informatics (UG3 and UG4)

Notable courses include Secure Programming, Compiling Techniques, and Natural Language Understanding, Generation, and Machine Translation. Regular attendee of SIGINT-hosted CTFs and workshops. MathSoc Social Secretary 2017.

The Godolphin & Latymer School

International Baccalaureate Diploma • 2016

School Ambassador | Selsky Pure Mathematics Prize

Obtained 43 points taking Economics HL, Physics HL, Chemistry HL, Mathematics HL, Italian B SL, English Literature SL. Editor of various magazines and co-founder of school's Math & Computer Science society.

StarFish

Third Place at Athena Hack • April 2019

Created a game that could be implemented into schools for children to educate them in the lasting impact of waste in the community, while still having fun. This allows children to understand the importance and purpose of reducing and preventing plastic waste from an early age.

Låmp

Best IoT Hack Using a Qualcomm Device at Hack the Burgh V • March 2019

With the original aim being to make Edinburgh Fringe show transition times shorter by abstracting the lighting, sound and images into a block based interface, we ended up creating a system that can dynamically add new IoT devices to our system such as Låmp and control them through a web app.

Spoken Languages

Native English speaker, proficient in Italian, Spanish, and French, with limited proficiency in Serbian.

Technical Skills

Experience coding in Java, Kotlin, C, C++, Python, Bash, Haskell, LaTeX. Familiar with Android Studio, Ansible, Chrony, FireBase, Linux, MapBox, NTP, NLTK.

• Film and theatre production
• Music (guitarist, bassist, vocalist)
• Protecting the environment & encouraging others too!
• Budget travelling & hitchhiking
• Baking