Overview
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Education
Skills
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Austin Topham

Salt Lake City,UT

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

AI Writing Evaluator

Outlier.ai
06.2024 - Current
  • Evaluates quality of LLM outputs across various dimensions such as truthfulness, instruction following, and writing quality.

Violin Teacher

Private Violin Studio
Salt Lake City
02.2017 - 06.2021
  • Taught violin to my own private studio of middle and high schoolers.
  • Rehearsed school chamber and orchestral music, études, scales, and personal pieces.
  • Trained specific techniques such as vibrato and shifting in the left hand, various bowing techniques in the right hand, and overall posture and relaxed playing.

Education

B.S. - Computer Science

University of Utah
12-2026

Skills

Languages: Python, Java, Kotlin, Javascript, C, C#, HTML, CSS

Frameworks: Maui, NET, Django

Accomplishments

  • Classically trained violinist, pianist, and music theorist.
  • Full Ride Scholarship to the Gifted Music School Conservatory.
  • Concertmaster of both Utah's All State Orchestra (2019), and Utah Youth Orchestra (2018-19), performed at Abravanel Hall.
  • Founder of Rowland Hall's Advanced Chamber Ensembles, which has continued to win awards every year at state competitions since its inception.
  • Member of the Front's Competition Team (2016-2019). Competed at USA Climbing Youth Divisionals twice.

Projects

  • SNAKE game: Recreated the classic snake game in C# to learn about the server-client model., developed server and client in C# and GUI using Maui., implemented following TCP/IP.
  • Mobile Drawing Application: Created a drawing application using Android Studio., integrated AI-powered tools for object detection in images using Google Vision., used Firebase to handle secure authentication and cloud storage.
  • Grading Web Application: Built a Django web app to manage and calculate student grades., implemented secure login, sortable tables, and weighted scoring., focused on clean design and usability.

Class Curriculum

  • Algorithms
  • Software Practice I and II
  • Linear Algebra
  • Mobile App Programming
  • Engineering Probability and Statistics

Timeline

AI Writing Evaluator

Outlier.ai
06.2024 - Current

Violin Teacher

Private Violin Studio
02.2017 - 06.2021

B.S. - Computer Science

University of Utah
Austin Topham