Eric Lindesay
eric@lindesay.com
Integrated Masters Student
University of Nottingham
Graduating in 2025
Employment
Data Annotator (Coder)
DataAnnotation.tech
2024 - Present
DataAnnotation is a company that trains Large Language Models (LLMs) through freelance annotators for clients.
In this role, I conducted data annotation by comparing model responses to various prompts, primarily related to coding across multiple programming languages, as well as text and image-based prompts. I do this largely out of term time however, I am planning on increasing the amount I work on it.
Senior Smart Bar AssistantUniversity of Nottingham
2024 - Present
As an addition to the Smart Bar Assistant responsibilities, this role includes coordinating and managing a team of assistants as well as using Azure Portal to manage user accounts, for example when performing MFA resets.
Smart Bar AssistantUniversity of Nottingham
2022 - 2023
The "Smart Bar" is an in-person IT Support service that students and university staff can visit for help with their tech problems.
As a Smart Bar Assistant, my job is to provide this service and take advantage of my strong communication and technical skills to resolve their problems efficiently.
Education
University of Nottingham - Year 4
Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence (MSci)
A-Levels
| Computer Science | A* |
| Further Maths | A* |
| Maths | A* |
Projects
Medical Image Segmentation Tool (MIST)
This was a group project for the University for which I was project manager. The tool is designed for clinicians who can use it to track tumour growth and easily identify organs in medical images. It was developed in C++ based on a previous tool, written in MATLAB.
Verilog to Minecraft Redstone
This is a Python program which converts Verilog to Minecraft Redstone circuits, winning the "Hackiest Hack" prize in HackNotts 2024, a yearly Hackathon.
For a full list of projects, please see my Portfolio
Programming Skills
| C++ | ★★★ |
| Python | ★★★ |
| Java | ★★★ |
| HTML | ★★★ |
| SQL | ☆★★ |
| C | ☆★★ |
| Android Development | ☆★★ |
| CSS | ☆★★ |
| C# | ☆☆★ |
| Java Script | ☆☆★ |
| Haskell | ☆☆★ |
| MATLAB | ☆☆★ |
| ARM Assembly | ☆☆★ |
Achievements
Univeristy of Nottingham High Achievers Award - 2022
Awarded to the top 5% of students
Member of MENSA since 2019
Duke of Edinburgh Award - Bronze
Volunteering
Sign Language Outreach
During university, I joined the Sign Language Society and took part in community outreach events to introduce BSL (British Sign Language) and its importance to children in the community.
Coding Competitions
One of my hobbies is doing competitive coding problems, including competing in competitions. I have participated in the UKIEPC three times (2021, 2022, 2023), codeforces contests nine times as well as competitions within the University.
These competitions have helped hone my programming skills, particularly by practicing problems on platforms such as codeforces, CSES and Kattis where I've mastered various data structures. Most recently I have focused on how to efficient Segment Tree implementation through problems in the CSES problemset.
Additionally, I founded a competitive programming Discord server for our university, which has attracted over 80 members. This community allows me to collaborate with like-minded individuals and learn from those with advanced skills in the field.