Marcus Thorström

This is my personal web page, here I post information about myself and my ongoing projects and interest. Under the Education panel, you find more information about my Education. The tab Working Experience lists my previous jobs. Some of my previous projects is listed under Projects. My contact information can be found under Contact.

I'm currently doing my master thesis at Volvo Cars and Ericsson, where I used Machine Learning to predict KPIs that are used to monitor the software delvelopment process. As machine learning is a new topic to me, this is very intresting and the results can be quite useful. The report will be (hopefully) published in June when the thesis is finnished.

I'm currently in the process of finding a job, I don't have a company or business of preference, I'm looking for something interesting and challenging work.

  • Chalmers university of technology - M.Sc
    2015-2017

    My masters degree is in Software Engineering, a master aimed to investigate the process of creating software. The master covers topics such as Software Quality, Requirements Engineering, Project management etc. I am currently writing my master thesis investigating key performance indicators (KPI) in industrial use.
  • Chalmers university of technology - B.Sc
    2012-2015

    My bachelors degree was a major in Computer engineering and the education mixed both software and hardware. The parts I found interesting was the software, as this was new to me. I continued by selecting courses which were more software specific and gave me the ability to, after a masters degree, received the Swedish title of "Civil Ingenjör".
  • Uddevalla gymnasieskola
    2009-2012

    During my high school I studied technology with a specialization in IT. I learned how routing protocol worked and the infrastructure of the internet. I received two CCNA discovery certificates from Cisco Networking academy.
Listed below is some of my working experience.
  • Selthor HB - CTO
    Since 2016

    I started a company together with a class mate to be able to design websites on our spare time. This far we have completed one site, Enerma.se, which is a wordpress site. I did most of the technical php and wordpress related stuff and my classmate did the css and graphical stuff.
  • Volvo Cars - Technical planning
    Summer 2016

    I worked at Volvo cars technical planning department during the summer of 2016. My tasks were creating user interfaces in VBA for Excel and creating a planning system using Excel.
  • Lindholmen Science Park - PC/MAC/IT Support
    2013-2016

    During my bachelor programme I worked as an support technician on the side. I participated in fixing any computer related issues as well as planning, expansion and consulting in purchase made.
  • Qalixa Solutions - iOS developer/internship
    Summer 2014

    During the summer of 2014 I worked as an intern at Qalixa Solutions developing their iOS application. I learned to work with a team and use common techniques such as git and scrum. I also learned Objective-C, the (then current) language for iOS.

Here is a list of my Projects

  • Hemnet räknaren
    2017

    This is a google chrome extension i created to be used with the Swedish housing site Hemnet. This application calculated the actual monthly cost of a house or apartment depending on certain parameters (rent, mortgage etc.).
  • Light Control
    2017

    This is my simple "home automation" system used for turning on and off the lights in my apartment. The system uses a 433MHz sender to power on and off different lights.
  • Sigma programming Challenge
    2016

    This was my first industrial project, co-created with the consulting firm Sigma. They needed a system to test the technical aspects of developers by asking technical questions and asking them to write code. I proposed the alternative of having an online compiler to do small task and check questions. The application supported compilation of C, C#, Java, Python code through HTTP post requests and managed questions and results in a Mongo Database. The back-end was written in NodeJS and the front-end used AngularJS 1.6.
  • A tour wit Google glass
    2015

    This was my bachelor thesis, me and my partner created a google glass application to guide users around an office and present information by scanning QR codes generated from the web service we also created. The web service was written in .NET and it was my first (and only) experience with C#. The publication can be found here.
  • Pling
    2015

    The pling project was another university project where a few classmates and I build a simple order system for a local bike delivery company. The system included a website to create orders and an android application for the bikers to get directions and todays orders. I was in charge of the backend, this was done without any external libraries, in PHP. I managed the website and database with another person in charge of the front-end look.
  • iOS projects
    2014

    To extend my iOS knowledge and learn Swift, I created some very basic applications for iOS.
    • Velocity
      An application for measuring speed in different units (km/h, mph, knots, m/s).
    • BRFKalkylatorn
      Application for calculating key values from housing cooperatives.
  • Needy
    2014

    Needy was the first real android project I build. It was a part of a university course where we were suppose to build an android application for truck drivers. The functionality was very basic, it had a starting screen with four options, were a truck driver could select either: Food, Reststop, Gasstation or settings. I was in charge of mining JSON data from different official and non-official (reverse engineering websites) APIs to get the information about near rest-stops and gas stations. We also used the Google maps API to get near restaurants and to get directions to the nearest.

Contact:

Email: marcus.thorstrom@gmail.com
Phone: +46704910105

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