Hi, I am Bernat

I am a Developer
I am a Student
I am a Coding Competitor
I develop games for fun

Bernat Borràs Civil

Computer Science Student at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

I am a student pursuing a degree in Computer Science at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. During my free time I compete in coding competitions like Google Hash Code, Google Code Jam, HackUPC, etc. I also develop video games using Unity game engine for fun.

Years ago when I was a kid I started my journey by making some little projects using Scratch. Soon I realized that Scratch was too basic and started to use Unity by following some tutorials on Youtube. At that age I felt it was too complex and decided to set it aside. During high school I coursed a couple subjects related with programming. One of them we made a website using HTML and PHP. The other one we learnt some programming using Lego Mindstorms robots. We started implementing simple actions like making the robot to follow a line on the ground and evolved it to a maze solver. The final project was a competition among all classmates where we had to build a sumo robot. Along my class partner, we managed to being runners-up in this competition. The last unit of this subject we made an introduction to Arduino. We made basic projects like making a LED turn on depending on the amount of light the sensor gets. At home, I also have an Arduino board, and haven’t made any intermediate level project. During my last year on high school I decided to start over using Unity and followed more Youtube tutorials. On college after learning serious programming knowledge I felt more confident and made some little video games on my own with Unity.

Skills

C, C++, C#

Using it as the main programming language. Used for college, contest programming and for game developing.

Java

After the C family, Java is the language that I used the most, creating some projects with it.

Python

I’ve use it in a couple of college subjects. I created a Telegram Bot, and some scripting for a Neural Network.

Unity

Medium understanding. Used to develop some video games.

OpenGL

Good understanding of it. I have made some graphic applications in college with it.

Linux

Using as the main operating system. I have a good understanding of it.

Git

Experienced with git-based development. Mostly, use GitHub. Also, have experience in working with GitLab.

PostgreSQL

Basic knowledge of this object-relational database system. I have used it in college in Data Bases courses.

Experiences

Build38

February 2024 - Present

Barcelona, Spain

Build38 is the innovative and cutting-edge provider of the next generation AI-based app protection and management platform.

SDK Software Engineer Intern

October 2024 - Present

Responsibilities:

Developing cybersecurity SDK using C
Developing wrappers for Android & iOS using Swift, Java and Ionic

Solutions Engineer Intern

February 2024 - September 2024

Responsibilities:

Integrating cybersecurity SDK to Android & iOS apps
Developing apps using Kotlin, Swift, React Native and Flutter
Developing security tools such as obfuscator
Testing SpringBoot backend
Writing techinchal documentation

Education

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona

September 2024 - Present

Master's Degree in Informatics Engineering · 90 ects

Taken Courses:

Course Name	Total Credit	Obtained Credit
Computing and Intelligent Systems
Interactive Graphic Systems
Strategic Planning and IT Governance
Sustainability, Economy and Social Commitment

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona

September 2020 - June 2024

Bachelor's Degree in Informatics Engineering specialization in Computer Science · 240 ects

Average mark: 8.28 out of 10

Publications:

Creació d'un visualitzador de fotografies en 3D

Taken Courses:

Course Name	Total Credit	Obtained Credit
Bachelor Thesis	10	10 (MH)
Complementary course on computing in Mobility	10	10
Exchange program	10	9.8
Data Structures and Algorithms	10	9.1
Computer Vision	10	9.1
Programming II	10	9
Graphics	10	9
Parallelism	10	9
Artificial Intelligence	10	8.7
Advanced Algorithmics	10	8.7
Computer Interfacing	10	8.7
Databases	10	8.5
Probability and Statistics	10	8
Logics in Information Technology	10	8
Interaction and Interface Design	10	8
Programming Languages	10	7.8
Introduction to Computers	10	7.7
Introduction to Software Engineering	10	7.7
Theory of Computation	10	7.6
Programming I	10	7.5
Fundamentals of Mathematics	10	7.4
Computer Architecture	10	7.4
Physics	10	7.2
Bussiness and Economic Environment	10	7.2
Computer Organization	10	7.1
Programming Projecs	10	7
Computer Networks	10	7
Algorithmics	10	6.5
Mathematics I	10	6.2
Mathematics II	10	6.2
Operating Systems	10	6.2

Extracurricular Activities:

Contributor of RepoFIBtori, a platform to share class notes and solved exercises.
Contestant in II UPC Online Chess Tournament.
Contestant in III UPC Online Chess Tournament.
Contestant in Vintè Concurs de Programació de la UPC.

Aalto University - School of Science

August 2023 - December 2023

Exchange studies (Erasmus+ Programme) · 30 ects

Average mark: 4.8 out of 5

Taken Courses:

Course Name	Total Credit	Obtained Credit
Competitive Programming	5	5
Distributed Algorithms	5	5
Machine Learning	5	5
Web Software Development	5	5
Cryptography	Pass/Fail	Pass
Information Security	5	4

Extracurricular Activities:

Contestant in Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest.

Working on

Europoly

The project After making the Minesweeper, I wanted to create something more elaborated. I decided to make a clone of Monopoly. Almost everybody has played at least one time to Monopoly, so I don’t need to make an introduction. How it works I started with the player movement and the dice. When everything was smooth and playable, I started to make the cards. One thing I like about them is the fact that they aren’t images. Cards are rendered based in the info assigned to its cell. With this method I don’t need to be hours making each card, and if I want to change a value, I just do it once and the card will change automatically. The cash flow of each player is pretty easy to implement. The jail cell has given me headaches with the go to jail movement and several bugs I’ve already fixed. Houses and hotels were also very buggy, especially when you sold them. I also had troubles implementing the functionality of some Chance and Community Chest cards, as I had to change the way I made some functions. With the functionality of mortgages/unmortgages I learnt to access to a child object parameter in Unity. It’s a little different from most common programming languages. Be in mind that now you can have negative cash due to testing.

Saturday, November 26, 2022 Read

Open Source Projects

Toha

Mantainer Jun 2022 - Present

A Hugo theme for personal portfolio. Used it as my website theme and contributed to this project, alongisde maintaining the documentation in Spanish.

html css javascript

FreeCAD

Contributor Apr 2024 - Present

A general-purpose parametric 3D computer-aided design modeler and a building information modeling software application with finite element method support. Used it to desing some models for my 3D printer. So far, only contributing to translating it.

CAD

Jellyfin

Contributor Dec 2023 - Present

An open-source media server designed to organize, manage, and share digital media files to networked devices. Used it alongside my Raspberry Pi to host my media. So far, only contributing to translating it.

docker raspberry pi

Sourcegit

Contributor Oct 2024 - Present

An open source Windows/macOS/Linux GUI client for GIT users. So far, only contributing to documentation and translating it.

git

Recent Posts

VR Battlefield

The statement We were asked to develop a Virtual Reality application using Unity and Google Cardboard. The app needed to have the following features: A virtual reality environment with various objects that can be interacted with. Navigation: you can use either the reticle pointer provided by GoogleVR or the data entry from the mobile phone’s accelerometer, to move the camera within the environment virtual. You can implement any of the metaphors that we have seen in the classes of theory (constant movement, plane route selection, teleportation, etc.) Selection: The user must have some 3DUI mode to be able to select objects from the scene, as well as being able to apply geometric transformations to perform tasks of manipulation (rotation, translation, scaling). Control: Offer the user the possibility of doing some control task via 3D GUIs, for example example: modify the color of some object, load a model into the scene, etc. What we’ve made In the video below you can take a look at the resulting app. To sum it up, we created a battleground environment where you can interact with several objects, such as grenades, mines and guns.

Friday, November 15, 2024 Read

3D Image Viewer

Introduction This project was made for my bachelor thesis. You can take a look the full report here (note that’s in catalan). Abstract Since the arrival of the photographic camera, humans have seen the need to find a way to organize photographs. Nowadays, the ease and simplicity of taking a photograph causes large quantities of them to accumulate. The most popular photo viewers and galleries display one image after another, in a list or grid, making it difficult to organize and searching them.

Monday, July 1, 2024 Read

Junction 2023

About Junction 2023 Junction 2023 is a weekend-long hackathon, where participants team up and create tech projects to the challenges set by our partner companies. The projects can range from physical prototypes to new games, software, and concepts. With their projects, participants also compete for winning prizes on a challenge, as well as the Main Prize of 20,000€. Our project Creating habits is really important, that’s why we re imagined the current Huawei health app to make it attractive and satisfying for young people to do sports daily and weekly via a quests system with which everyone can compete and cooperate in order to get the most points across your friends.

Sunday, November 12, 2023 Read

Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest 2023

About NCPC 2023 The Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest (NCPC) is an annual team-based programming competition aimed at university and college students from the Nordic and Baltic countries. NCPC is suitable for programmers of all skill levels, from beginner to expert. The contest features a well-rounded problem set with a mix of easy and challenging problems. Teams are allowed only one computer, and are not allowed to surf through the internet. Problems Solved Problem C: Converting Romans Statement of Problem C: Converting Romans Once I read this problem, I directly went to code it in the computer as it seemed easy. I coded the usual roman to decimal converter, but then I noticed that they asked for a simpler version of the problem: “we will subtract any digit written to the left of a larger digit, even if they are not directly adjacent.” making the problem easier. I had a couple of little issues with the slight modification of the problem, but eventually I managed to solve it. This was the first problem we managed to get it right.

Saturday, October 7, 2023 Read

Object Tracker

The statement Long-Term Visual Object Tracking Benchmark is a dataset to benchmark object tracking algorithms. We were asked to implement four different algorithms. Two using tracking techniques, and two using recognition. For each technique, we had to implement one from scratch (an algorithm made for us) and another one extracted from the internet. Given a series of frames and a bounding box corresponding to the object to track, the algorithm should follow the object. To evaluate the precision, we used the overlapping ratio between the computed bounding box and the optimal bounding box (which was given via a txt file).

Friday, June 23, 2023 Read

λ-Calculus Telegram Bot

The statement We were asked to make a lambda-calculus interpreter created by Alonzo Church. This interpreter had also to support the definition and use of macros, a variable name for another expression. Those macros had to be evaluated in an infix (if it’s a symbol) or a prefix mode (otherwise). On top of that, our interpreter had to run in a Telegram chat. Finally, we had to add the capability to print our expression as a tree in an image.

Tuesday, June 13, 2023 Read