$ whoami
shane whelan
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study final-year CS with Data Science & AI
University College Dublin, Ireland
role Powertrain Captain, UCD Formula Student
took the powertrain team to Silverstone 2026
prev Software Engineering Intern, Twilio
side co-founder, SmartCert — AI study platform
into data engineering · ML · embedded systems
$ ls projects/
UCDFS/TEENSY — Vehicle Control Unit firmware for the UCD Formula Student car, on a Teensy 4.1. Pedal and brake sensing, BMS and Bamocar inverter comms over CAN, IMU, and a Nextion dash HMI. Team repo — I work on it as Powertrain Captain.
C++ PlatformIO Teensy 4.1 CAN
f1-fantasy-predictor — automated weekly F1 Fantasy predictions with ML-based lineup optimisation. Retrains on every race weekend.
FastF1 LightGBM DuckDB GitHub Actions
smartcert — study and cert-exam prep platform built on LLM APIs.
Python LLM APIs
chess-analytics — my own chess history pulled from the Lichess and Chess.com APIs and made legible.
Streamlit Plotly Python
sp500-vs-irish-housing — correlation study between the Irish housing market and the S&P 500, at scale.
Spark Hadoop MapReduce SQL
$ cat stack.txt
daily Python, C, C++, Java, SQL, bash
data/ml scikit-learn, PyTorch, Spark, DuckDB
embedded Arduino, Raspberry Pi, CAN
infra Docker, GitHub Actions, Azure, MySQL



