Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Hi! I’m Osher, a 12-year-old third year computer science student at the University of Waterloo. I began studying math at UWaterloo when I was 8, before enrolling full-time in CS at 9. I fell in love with coding after taking an Art of Problem Solving Python course when I was 7, and I’ve been learning and creating ever since. Math and coding are my world, but I also love beatboxing, playing video games, traveling, and exploring new ideas and experiences. I’ve completed software engineering internships at Shopify, Cohere and Wealthsimple, working on impactful products and gaining hands-on experience with modern, large-scale systems. I’m also the author of The Quest for the Integral, a calculus adventure book held in the University of Waterloo’s Special Collections & Archives. My superpower is coming up with unique and creative solutions to really hard problems. I’m imaginative, original, and love working with others to build meaningful solutions. I’m looking to collaborate on exciting projects with talented teams. My goals are to keep growing, become exceptional at what I do, and continue having fun building and creating.
Responsible for creating a new and highly requested mobile feature end-to-end, enhancing filters for the performance insights screen and enabling users to see metrics for their households. Delivered in collaboration with the Household & Money Management team. Created investment tracking features for the Wealthsimple app and website with the Metrics & Activities team, improving how Wealthsimple clients manage their investment portfolios. Contributed to both front-end and back-end development using languages and frameworks like TypeScript, React, GraphQL, and Kotlin to build and ship user-facing features.
Returned as a judge at Hack Canada, providing feedback on select projects from 210 submissions, with 700+ hackers from 26 countries in attendance.
Built an innovative, browser-based 3D modelling platform with my team at Hack the North called ShapeShift, which won Y Combinator’s $2,000 Unicorn Prize. 3D modelling software often has a steep learning curve and relies on clunky keyboard shortcuts and mouse clicks. ShapeShift offers a more intuitive approach to 3D modelling. ShapeShift uses your camera to detect real-time hand gestures to manipulate 3D objects. It also uses an intelligent AI assistant that can generate 3D objects for you.
Built batch inference infrastructure with automated retry mechanisms, improving the reliability of large-scale model runs. Conducted research on thinking-token budgets using different configurations on Cohere’s reasoning LLMs which helped the Reasoning team analyze how their models perform in various scenarios.
Invited to judge at Hack the 6ix, Toronto’s largest student-run hackathon. Reviewed select projects and provided feedback to a subset of 440+ participants across 68 submissions.