Syed Muhammad Irtaza

• Helped organize Summer of Making, a coding and hardware hackathon by Hack Club and GitHub, with 25,000+ teen participants worldwide making real technical projects.
• Built an open-source submission and peer-voting platform, and hosted the Summer of Making game jam, serving 18,000+ teens. Also organized Borked, a web-development challenge for 6,700+ teens.

• Tested apps for companies including Facebook (Meta), Matterport, and Deezer.
• Wrote 4 software-testing articles for the company blog, reaching 50,000+ views.

• Authored an article on TypeScript that reached 100,000+ views.

• Managed the MarkMUN 2023 Instagram account and grew its view rate past 1,000.
• Led the Media team, and managed video editing and footage processing for MarkMUN '23 and produced the school end-of-year recap video.

Shipped six multiplayer games on Rune, reaching 1 million+ combined plays, 247,000+ players, and 17,000+ hours played.

Built an open-source submission, voting, and gallery platform for hackathons and game jams, used by 500+ people through Hack Club events.

Designed and built an open-source DIY camera with hand-wired electronics, a 3D-printed case, and custom firmware.

Built an open-source virtual-pet operating system for Raspberry Pi Pico devices, including the software, pixel art, and custom hardware support.
Featured in the Hack Club 2025 magazine, with other cool open-source projects made by teens in 2025.

Built an open-source sticker-collection manager using the Hack Club sticker API, used by 150+ community members.

Straight 9 A's: 7 A* and 2 A.