Personal details

Lenka P.

Based in: 🇨🇦 Canada

Timezone: Pacific Time (US & Canada) (UTC-7)

Summary

I am a freelance software developer, a clinical counsellor and a mentor in one.

As a software developer, I do contract work through my Vancouver-based company Qubiq Interactive (https://www.qubiqinteractive.ca). My main focus in on custom-built applications that require a unique engineering approach, although I have extensive experience with working on more traditional consumer apps and websites as well. I am especially passionate about agent-based modeling and games development.

As a tech counsellor at my private practice Treerock Therapy (https://www.treerocktherapy.ca), I provide career counselling to individuals and team mental health consulting to tech companies. My mission is to facilitate transformation of burnout, anxiety and depression into self-actualization in my clients.

I started my career in the engineering industry in 2009 and received a PhD in Simulation of Complex Systems from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom in 2017. I have developed autonomous robot simulations, distributed data processing systems, games and websites. I trained and mentored junior programmers, led development teams and maintained strong relationships with clients. I taught software development at higher education institutions in Europe and in Canada.

Technical skills

Top 3 skills

JavaScript・10 yrs Python・10 yrs C++・10 yrs

Other skills

Objective-C・5 yrs PostgreSQL・3 yrs MySQL・10 yrs PHP・10 yrs Bash・10 yrs HTML/CSS・10 yrs Object-Oriented Programming・10 yrs Java・2 yrs

Work Experience

Founder & CEO

Qubiq Interactive | Jan 2020 - Present

HTML/CSS

PHP

Python

Java

Django

Bash

System Design

JavaScript

Objective-C

Adobe Photoshop

React Native

Swift

My areas of expertise include full-stack applications, agent-based models, games, mobile apps and project management. Largest projects include: Lead on a cross-institution R&D project in autonomous UAVs, Ebay-like cross-platform mobile app with Django + PostgreSQL back-end.

Faculty, Computer Information Technology

British Columbia Institute of Technology | Aug 2020 - Jun 2021

Python

Object-Oriented Programming

Instructor for the ACIT 2515 Objected Oriented Programming course. Taught three sets over 2 semesters. Adjusted and existing curriculum and created scripts for automatically marking programming labs and exams.

Education

Kelowna College of Professional Counselling

Diploma・ Applied Psychology and Counselling

Jan 2022 - May 2023

University of Southampton

Doctor's degree・Simulation of Complex Systems

Sep 2012 - Jan 2017

Personal Projects

Zirthian

2020

Xcode

Objective-C

Adobe Photoshop

Zirthian is a shoot-'em-up arcade-style side-scroller for iPhones and iPads with unique game play, weekly missions, beautifully low-bit graphics and lots of customizations that affect the player's combat experience and give their spaceship a unique look.

Slot Machine (Psychology research experiment)

2012

ActionScript 3

This project was commissioned by the University of Sussex Department of Psychology for the purposes of collecting player behaviour data for a psychology research experiment.