Zaccaria Marin

Zaccaria Marin

Computer Science,
University of Liverpool.

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About

I currently study Computer Science at the University of Liverpool. What really draws me to computer science is the hardware and the systems. I love learning about networking, its interaction with hardware, and how data travels across the globe.

I also love to involve myself in a variety of activities outside of school. At College, I competed at Lockheed Martin’s Code Quest and argued prosecution under the Computer Misuse Act at the Royal Courts of Justice in a national Mock Trial Competition.

“What’s past is prologue.”

The Tempest

Projects

Project 01 / Software

PillPower

A-Level NEA
Educational prototype
60 / 70

A full-stack medication-management prototype for residential care homes. I built it for my A-Level Computer Science NEA to coordinate medication schedules, inventory and administration records, with access separated by organisation, role and permission.

Built with

Python · Django · PostgreSQL
HTML · CSS · JavaScript

Application study01 / 03
PillPower manager dashboard showing care-home information, medication schedules and inventory, with demo data.
Manager dashboardDemo data
01Managing a care home

Separate manager and carer flows. Managers organise residents and carers into care groups, set permissions and control access duration.

02What needs giving, when

The carer dashboard prioritises scheduled medication and records administration with a time and care notes. PDF MAR charts provide a downloadable record.

View carer dashboard ↗
03From catalogue to inventory

Medication search uses the NHS website content API. The application tracks medication variants, stock levels and configurable reorder thresholds.

View medication search ↗

Scope noteNot clinically validated or independently security-audited; not for real medication decisions or patient data.

Source repository

Education

  1. 2025 - present

    BSc Computer Science

    University of Liverpool

    Reading
  2. 2023 - 2025

    Kimberley College

    History, English Literature and Computer Science

    A Levels
  3. 2018 - 2023

    St Thomas More Catholic Upper School

    Secondary education

    GCSEs

Achievements

2024

Lockheed Martin Code Quest

Novice bracket, competing in a team of three.

1stNovice bracket
Team of three
2023 - 2024

Bar Mock Trial

Arguing prosecution under the Computer Misuse Act, from the Oxford heat to the national final at the Royal Courts of Justice.

1stOxford heat
2023
4thNational final
2024

Extras

Zaccaria drawing a barebow on an outdoor archery range.
At full draw with a barebow.Fig. 01
Archery / University of Liverpool

When I started at Liverpool University, I had a goal in mind to explore something new outside of studies. Archery drew me in and became a mainstay in my weeks to come for the year.

I love archery, it’s such a fun sport that is both casual and competitive, and great for the social atmosphere it brings. I am currently in between disciplines, attempting to master both barebow and recurve styles.

Along the journey, I got elected to kit secretary at my first ever club AGM. Moving forward, I am learning so much more about archery equipment itself, and excited to help the club in the coming years of my studies.

Zaccaria holding a recurve bow at an indoor archery range.
Between ends with a recurve bow.Fig. 02

Things I like

me rambling about things i like

Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech (1943) depicting a man standing to speak among an attentive crowd at a town hall meeting.
Norman Rockwell, Freedom of Speech (1943) Fig. 03
Art · 1943

The Freedom of Speech

Norman Rockwell

So this art piece is called “The Freedom of Speech” by Rockwell. Rockwell apparently got inspired by a town hall meeting, where one man stood up amongst the crowd to voice an unpopular opinion.

That’s what I love most about this painting. Speech, so important to humanity, so vital. Communication is a key skill in life, but even more so are opinions. I love hearing other people’s ideas more than me saying my own, because other people always interpret differently, see differently and bring up fantastic ideas I can work with, that alone I wouldn’t have thought of, at least not so quickly.

Therefore, this piece really is significant to me, the realisation of such a conceptual idea of freedom of speech, and that man at the centre, who says the unpopular idea, not because it’s right or wrong, but because he believes in it.

Francis Cugat's Celestial Eyes, original 1925 first-edition dust jacket art for F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
Francis Cugat, Celestial Eyes (1925) Fig. 04
Fiction · 1925

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

One of my favourite fiction pieces of all time is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”. A novella, its quality is astounding considering its length. Harping back to my comment on the “freedom of speech”, Blaise Pascal, famous French mathematician and part time philosopher, said: “I have made it longer because I did not have the leisure of making it shorter.” To write something that conveys so much with so few words is an example of some of the best writing in the world.

The elements of the book I enjoy so is the narration. It is told by Nick Carraway, and the usage of the unreliable narrator is one of my favourites, as it opens interpretations of events. I am a hypocrite, because sometimes I am frustrated when things are not set in stone, but I found myself changing this opinion. No matter what medium, works of passion are always viewed differently person to person. This idea of perspective is strongly interwoven in the novella, through class and wealth.

The story is told at such an interesting time, where a golden age seemed so true. Fitzgerald’s writing almost transcends time, as he makes out the wealth to be immaterial and illusionary through Gatsby’s character, showing how obvious the bubble of Wall Street was. Churchill said (notice how I love a quote) “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it”, and I think with the current money surrounding artificial intelligence, and the way that investing through all these mobile apps has lowered the barrier to the stock market, and a bubble similar to that of the 1930s is brewing.

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