nishant suria

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curriculum vitae

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📖 about

I'm an introspective front-end developer, game designer, and language enthusiast, intrested in cross-cultural, accessible, and fun design. I always endeavor to do a lot with a little, and uphold a high level of sincerity in my work.

🗄️ employment

  • Group Tutor

    UCSC Learning Support Services
    2023 june ↖ 2021 september
    ↘ Via recommendation from professor, worked as the appointed group tutor for multiple Linguistics classes. Worked with professors and TAs to organize multiple sessions every week to provide support to students. Gave additional 1-on-1 support to students learning Python.
  • Research Assistant

    UCSC Department of Linguistics
    2022 september ↖ 2022 january
    ↘ Worked under Rachel Walker, professor in Linguistics at UCSC to edit, analyze and interpret phonetic data collected from Ladin, a minority Romance language spoken in Northern Italy.

🏫 education

  • BA | Arts, Games, and Playable Media

    University of California, Santa Cruz
    2023 june ↖ 2019 september
  • BA | Language Studies: Japanese

    University of California, Santa Cruz
    2023 june ↖ 2019 september
  • Cupertino High School
    2019 july ↖ 2015 august

🛠 skills

web development

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    HTML5/CSS
    skill barproficient
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    React
    skill barexperienced
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    AngularJS
    skill barexperienced
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    MySQL
    skill barexperienced

game development

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    Godot
    skill barproficient
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    Unity
    skill barexperienced
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    Blender
    skill barexperienced
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    Illustrator
    skill barexperienced
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    Reaper
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programming

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    JavaScript
    skill barproficient
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    Python
    skill barproficient
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    Git
    skill barexperienced
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    Java
    skill barexperienced
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    R
    skill barexperienced

linguistics

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    Praat
    skill barproficient
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    LaTeX
    skill barproficient

languages

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    English
    skill barnative
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    Japanese
    skill barbusiness-fluent
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    French
    skill barbusiness-fluent
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    Spanish
    skill barproficient
  • lang_hi icon
    Hindi
    skill barconversational

🧾 certifications & honors