Karolis Vyčius

Karolis Vyčius

Vilnius, Vilniaus, Lithuania
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Vyriausybės kanceliarija / Office of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania
Seoul National University

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I am a co-founder of NephroGo, GetPet, a full-stack developer with a strong focus on…

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Experience

Education

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    Seoul National University is top education institution (#37 QS Global World Ranking) in the world.
    During student exchange I studied in business department.

    - Provided Lithuanian language and culture lessons for other students (I was the only Lithuanian student in the university)
    - Speeches about my own projects and experiences for other students.

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    - I was granted Vilnius University Business School nominal scholarship due to academic and social performance.
    - Every year I am granted Vilnius University Business School incentive and targeted scholarships.
    - Won prize in edTech hackathon organized by Vilnius University Business School
    - Sharing my knowledge, participating in Vilnius University organized events and inspiring other students to participate in student exchanges.

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    Activities and Societies: Student Parliament

    Participated in many programming, mathematics, physics, economics contests and got top places.
    Two years in a row I received Vilija Targamadzė award for successful scientific researches.
    I was recognized as best Juozas Balčikonis gymnasium exact science student.

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    The National Student Academy is a public educational organisation for gifted high school students in Lithuania, created in 2004. It aims to foster the students' subject-specific interests and encourage their personal development. This is achieved through distance learning and residential events, which take place three times a year and include subject lectures by invited specialists, meetings with prominent academics, intellectual games and disciplinary personal development sessions.

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    Studies were focused on algorithms, data structures, math, programming.

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Volunteer Experience

  • Volunteer

    Volunteer

    Lithuanian Food Bank / „Maisto bankas“

    - 10 months

    Poverty Alleviation

    My contributions:
    Automated driver routes planning for food packet deliveries during the Corona pandemic.
    - This significantly reduced manual work.
    - Made delivering faster by providing more optimal routes for drivers.
    - Simplified gathering feedback from drivers.

    - Administration work and data analysis tasks using Python Pandas.
    - Making food in the kitchen and delivering it to the homeless or poor people.

  • Volunteer

    Volunteer

    Kompiuteriukų fondas

    - Present 6 years 1 month

    Education

    My contributions:
    - Preparing Micro:bit learning content. Crashy Bird game tutorial become a part of official documentation in microbit.org
    - Judging Micro:bit contests.
    - Micro:bit lessons for teachers.

  • Alumni Member

    Alumni Member

    Panevėžys Juozas Balčikonis gymnasium

    - Present 9 years

    Education

    Providing my IT knowledge to drive gymnasium Alumni. By voluntary initiatives such as alumni members network map, alumni web helping to make Alumni organization more open, popular and attractive.

  • Maths and Physics tutor

    Ne imti, bet duoti

    - 2 years 4 months

    Children

    “Ne imti, bet duoti“ (don’t take, but give), a local NGO, where I was a part of the Math and Physics tutoring team for school age orphans.

  • Information Technology Team Lead

    Information Technology Team Lead

    Žinau, ką renku

    - 8 months

    Civil Rights and Social Action

    Launched new WEB platform with information about politicians and questions for them zinaukarenku.lt

  • Android Developer

    Code for Vilnius

    - 1 year 9 months

    Civil Rights and Social Action

    Code for Vilnius is an independent group of developers, designers, data geeks, and researchers with an interest in solving civic and social problems in Vilnius.

    I am one of the contributors and volunteers to develop Tvarkau Vilniu Android application https://github.com/vilnius/tvarkau-vilniu

Licenses & Certifications

Projects

  • Gyvos istorijos

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    Gyvos istorijos (live stories) is project to discover the hidden stories of your city and share your own. By walking in the city with your smartphone you can discover historical facts, love stories, extraordinary incidents.
    Android app: https://github.com/gyvosistorijos/gyvos-istorijos-android

    Other creators
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  • Kviz!

    One of the biggest games in Lithuania. More than 120 thousand users have tried out "Kviz!". The phenomenal journey of our app started in 2012-02 and proved that even very small market can pay attention to what you do.

    During development period I was responsible for:
    - Kviz! Android app development
    - Kviz! API development
    - Kviz! UI, UX solutions.
    - Kviz! Database design
    - Kviz.lt development

    Other creators
    See project

Honors & Awards

  • edTech Hackathon 2020

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    Together with my colleague we created an all-in-one simultaneous feedback platform which helps teachers to evaluate students’ assignments and give feedback on them far easier.

    The research, creation of the prototype and successful pitch lead to winning one of the main prizes in edTech Hackathon 2020.

  • Hack4Vilnius 2018

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    Together with a team of pet lovers in Hack4Vilnius 2018 hackathon we created GetPet - platform for adopting pets from shelters and educating pet guardians on their future commitment.

    GetPet was selected as the best innovation in Hack4Vilnius 2018 hackathon and won the main prize. This project is known all around the world and was featured on Forbes, The Washington Post, The New York Times, MailOnline, RTL and many more. The project was further developed after hackathon.

  • ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM NEERC)

    ACM-ICPC

    I represented Vilnius University in the Western Subregion Quarter Final of North-eastern European Regional Collegiate Programming Contest at Minsk.

  • The best IPTV/VOD Mobile application

    TEO

    Created best IPTV/VOD Android application at App Camp event.

  • Best applied sciences student of the year

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    I was awarded the best applied sciences student of the year award by Panevėžys Juozas Balčikonis gymnasium. This award was given due to science, technology, electronics related activities and extracurricular works.

  • Vilija Targamadzė Award

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    Got this award together with my colleague Kęstutis Vėta for technology related science projects.

  • European Union Contest for Young Scientists National Stage

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    Bronze medal

  • Lithuanian informatics olympiad

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    Bronze medal

  • Vilija Targamadzė Award

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    Got this award together with my colleague Kęstutis Vėta for technology related science projects.

  • European Union Contest for Young Scientists National Stage

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    Gold medal

Languages

  • Lithuanian

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • English

    Professional working proficiency

  • German

    Elementary proficiency

  • Russian

    Elementary proficiency

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