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Software Projects

Things I designed, built and shipped: from gaze-aware IDE plugins to robotics and medtech research prototypes.

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CodeGaze: codegaze-frame.jpg

Open-source IntelliJ plugin + OpenXR viewer that streams your editor into VR and records which code token your eye or head ray hits.

CreatorPythonUnity

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One of 40 participants worldwide at the Global Entrepreneurship Summer School Shanghai 2026: a week of building a social business model with an international team, coached and pitched to a jury.

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JetBrains IDE plugin that uses implicit eye-tracking gaze patterns to trigger AI code explanations during code review.

Research Engineering InternPythonKotlinUnityClaude

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SMARIOT (Bachelor's thesis): smariot-avatar-preview.png

Bachelor's thesis (grade 1.0): a smart-mirror IoT hub with a voice, vision and gesture AI avatar that helps older adults live independently.

Bachelor's thesis authorPython

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Lets blind and visually impaired people explore paintings through sound instead of spoken description.

AI / MLHCI

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Flask service with an interactive volcano plot of protein expression (young vs. old donors) and PubMed lookups — a JetBrains internship challenge.

Python

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A warm, video-led recipe and blog website for macrobiotic cook Olga Seiwert-Häring, built with Next.js, Tailwind and shadcn/ui.

TypeScriptNext.js

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Heidi's self-taught side projects since 2021: first iOS apps, a TikTok video bot, a FastAPI link shortener, her first personal website and more.

Swift / iOSKotlinPythonTypeScript

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Audience Award winner at the START Public Makers Lab: a data intelligence platform that turns raw municipal data into actionable insights, saving about a month of work across departments.

Software Engineering