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Early projects archive

Dated work, presented as history: a thesis, an MVP and two prototypes.

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This archive collects Brenda Manrique's earlier and side work: a 2013 undergraduate thesis framework that received an honorable mention, a software MVP for the Aquolity crowdsourcing concept, a collaborative Project Tango VR/AR prototype she coded part of in C#, and a Solana-based NFT marketplace prototype.

Dynamic graphical-component framework — 2013 thesis#

Her undergraduate thesis: she designed and implemented a framework for dynamically generating graphical components for a particular class of business applications, then evaluated it experimentally. The trials measured a reduction in implementation time against building the same scaffolding by hand.

The thesis received an honorable mention.

An early instance of the same instinct that shows up throughout her career: notice a process being repeated by hand, then turn the repetition into structure.

Aquolity — MVP#

She built a software MVP for Aquolity, an early crowdsourcing concept for monitoring water quality, focused on communities where usable water quality is a development issue.

The idea included a coordination layer connecting the people who detect a problem with those able to deliver a solution. It was an MVP, never a deployed platform.

Two prototypes#

Project Tango · VR/AR prototype

A collaborative spatial-computing project organised through the New York City Google Developer Group for a Google Project Tango contest. She coded part of it in C#.

Solana NFT marketplace · prototype

She wrote the smart contracts and built the minting flow, marketplace logic and wallet UI. A concept prototype; it did not become a business.

Older portfolios — and an honesty note#

An older Django 1.8 portfolio with forms, routing, templates and static assets, followed by a React portfolio with animated timelines and GitHub Pages deployment.

Template placeholder projects from those repositories are not presented as her work. Only projects grounded in her actual timeline are carried into the current site.

Why keep an archive at all#

The point is not to make every old project look modern. It is that experimenting with intelligent systems has been part of the path for a long time.

Frequently asked questions#

Are these projects still active?

No. This is an archive: a 2013 thesis, an MVP and two prototypes, presented as history rather than as live products.

What was the thesis award?

The thesis received an honorable mention at Universidad Católica de Santa María, where she completed a BSc in Systems Engineering with an Artificial Intelligence concentration between 2007 and 2013.

Why mention the old portfolio repositories?

Because they contain template placeholder projects that were never hers, and an archive that quietly inherited them would be misleading. Only projects grounded in her actual timeline are carried into this site.

The trajectory is the point

From an AI-concentration degree and a 2010 research award to applied AI now.

Portrait of Brenda Manrique

Brenda Manrique

Senior Software Engineer · Full-stack, financial systems, applied AI

Senior software engineer in Berlin. Previously Moody's Analytics, JPMorgan Asset Management and Money.Net. Now building applied-AI systems independently.

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