Oscar Ryley Profile

Articles

Perfectionism and Achievement Hunting, The Bubble, 7th June 2025. [The Bubble], [Medium]

A Love Letter to Small Northern Towns, Exploring Barnsworth from 'Thank Goodness You're Here!', The Bubble, 23rd May 2025. [The Bubble], [Medium]

DurHack through the Lens of its Organisers, 2024 Organisers, DurHack Medium, 30th October 2024. [Medium]

Stealing Electricity - Cybercrime and the Law, Extended Project Qualification [A*], 2nd February 2022.

Should your Self-Driving Car kill you?, Higher Project Qualification [A*], 4th April 2020.

Projects

Get Moving with Godot!, DurJam 2025, 13th August 2025. GDScript. [Itch.io], [Devpost], [GitHub], [YouTube]

Painting with Digital Eyes, w/ Maks Nowak & Tommy Vranch-Ward, AstonHack10, 23rd February 2025. OpenCV, WebGL, Acrylic Paint. [Devpost], [GitHub]

Cube Route, w/ Matthew Peters & William Mendez, LeedsHack 2025, 9th February 2025. Java. [Devpost] [GitHub]

ExSpore, w/ Kaalkidan (Kaal) Sahele & Clarissa Hui, hackSheffield 9, 17th November 2024. GDScript. [Itch.io], [Devpost], [GitHub]

Loan Shark, HackNotts '24, 27th October 2024. GDScript. [Itch.io], [Devpost], [GitHub]

The Snowball Game, w/ Matthew Peters, Higher Programming [78%], 24th April 2024. GDScript. [Itch.io], [Devpost], [GitHub]

It Slithers, w/ Rui Aroújo, CS Alumni Hack 2024, 7th April 2024. GDScript. [Itch.io], [Devpost], [GitHub]

BillBoard, w/ Maks Nowak, Erik Lippert & Matthew Savin, Dundee Quackathon 2024, 10th March 2024. Python, AngularJS, MongoDB. [Devpost], [GitHub]

WristBand, Higher Programming [78%], 25th January 2024. JavaScript, HTML/ CSS, Client-Server. [Devpost], [GitHub]

Automated Obsolescence, LanHack 2023, 26th November 2023. GDScript. [Itch.io], [Devpost], [GitHub]

Chimps on Wordle, 23rd November 2023. Python. [Devpost], [GitHub]

The Fountain of Knowledge: Academic Search Engine, A-Level Computer Science Project [100%, 75/75], 9th February 2023. Python, SQLite. [Devpost], [GitHub]



Hackathon Experience

Coach, Major League Hacking, Mar 2025 - present

Events Coordinator Summer Placement, National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC), Jun - Sep 2025

(Events) Associate, Hackathons UK, Aug 2025 - present

Head of Logistics, DurHack, Feb 2024 - present

Teaching Experience

Durham University Computer Science Department, Jun 2024 - present
Lab Demonstrator, Theory of Computation & Programming (Higher)
Open Day Ambassador, 10x Events

Code Club, Computeas, Durham University Student Volunteering & Outreach (DUSVO), Feb 2024 - present

Teaching Assistant, Robotics & Programming, Engineering 4 Kids, Mar 2022 - Mar 2023

Other Experience

Web Developer (& Gaming Editor), The Bubble, Dec 2024 - present

Founder, President, DurJam (DU Game Dev), Nov 2024 - present

Youth Worker, Chesham Youth Centre, Sep 2021 - Mar 2023

Library Assistant, Chesham Library, Oct 2019 - Apr 2020

Education

MEng (Hons) Computer Science, Durham University, Sep 2023 - Jun 2027. First Class Honours (2nd Year).