Experience

Co-led a remote fullstack development team, developing a contact management tool. Took ownership of API/data integrations and accessibility, while maintaining the repo as Git master across two-week Scrum releases.

• Designed APIs and database schemas, templated forms, and rebuilt search/filter logic & UI.
• Cut search latency from ~5s to ~200ms while maintaining repo practices, docs, and two-week sprints.

Created a point tracking to-do list tool that promotes self discipline and rewarding.

• Designed a database schema for storing user credentials, custom quests, and custom items.
• Implemented a flexible frontend UI, designed to work on a variety of systems.
• Became familiar with modern tooling used to create a modern web app.

Designed and coded an assignment; a “Wheel of Fortune” Java server supporting a dynamic amount of concurrent clients. Mentored students in designing distributed systems hosted on AWS and debugging client-server architectures.

• Actively answered student questions on Slack discussion boards, and hosted office hours once per week.
• Assisted in debugging complex issues with code logic, networking, threading, AWS deployment, Ubuntu, and virtualization.

Building a C++ game engine and story driven RPG adventure.

• Implemented core engine loops, asset loading, vertex buffers, and JSON data structures.
• Experimented with tooling such as OpenGL, SDL, and Dear ImGui.

Maintain a handful of Minecraft and Stellaris mods, plus high performance heavily modded private servers.

• Built custom mod features and balance tweaks for Stellaris and Minecraft.
• Operate game servers and customize modpacks with ongoing profiling and tuning.

Designed and built a personalized engineering portfolio with localization, accessibility, basic telemetry, and custom UI components.

• Instructed Codex to perform complex tasks based on high level documentation and a detailed Work Breakdown Structure.
• Full en/ja/zh localization with centralized content definitions to keep information consistent.
• Built a custom component set with theme/contrast controls and accessibility guardrails.
• Centered performance and observability with critical CSS, edge rendering, and structured data.

Frontend design for Software Portfolio (this website), Rollodex Capstone, Quester2000.

• Rollodex - Implemented various components to build templated forms and redesign search/filter UI.
• Portfolio - Implemented a wide suite of custom UI components.

Backend logic for Software Portfolio (this website), Rollodex Capstone, Quester2000.

• Built client/server logic to power complex features, such as menu interfaces, search filtering, and form templates.

Backend logic for Software Portfolio (this website), Quester2000.

• Built web apps meant to run on cloud services.

AI-assisted development for Software Portfolio (this website), Quester2000

• Instructed Codex to perform complex tasks based on high level documentation and a detailed Work Breakdown Structure.
• Broke tasks into small chunks that Codex could handle, and verified stability of solutions.

Distributed systems teaching, Minecraft modding, Various courses/projects.

• Built a Wheel of Fortune Java client/server assignment for students.
• Decompiled code to patch a crash and reassemble.

Core language foundation. Used for custom game engine and many small projects.

• Developed a custom game engine for a current project. (Limited information disclosure)
• The language that I first learned and my top preference.

Rollodex, Quester2000

• Modeled contact/search data to support fast filtering.
• Stored app data for user accounts.

Server deployment for various projects

• Used to host client-server applications for SER321.

Coursework for various courses.

• SER334 - Built a Loadable Kernel Module that uses Linux data structures to display details about the processes executing in the kernel.
• Applied scripting for various topics such as thread/compiler optimization, page replacement, image processing, and scheduling algorithms.

Web design for Web Development & Design Foundations coursework, Software Portfolio (this website), Rollodex Capstone, Quester2000.

• Built legacy style websites using HTML and CSS to display information and navigate between pages.
• Integrated with JavaScript, TypeScript, and React to build complex web apps.

UI design for Software Portfolio (this website), Rollodex Capstone, Quester2000, Various courses.

• Created themes for web applications to customize and improve accessibility.

My daily driver kernel, set up on many systems. Also used for various courses.

• Actively maintaining Nextcloud and game servers with backups and monitoring.
• Configured VFIO and kernel tuning for GPU passthrough to VMs.

Rollodex, SER322 - Database Management course

• Designed Retail Inventory Management system for SER322.
• Used queries to troubleshoot and speed up search for Rollodex.

Modding, Game Engine, Various courses.

• Stored complex application objects to file, and read them back upon application reload.
• Commonly used when modding Stellaris and Minecraft.

Local tooling on Linux systems

• Scripting to modify various behaviors of Linux machines.
• Used heavily during application development.

Game mod configuration, Various courses

• Patched Minecraft config XMLs to optimize servers and align with modpack updates.
• Deploy virtual machines and optimize them.

Virtualize Windows on Linux systems

• Set up Windows 10 virtual machines optimized for gaming, with GPU passthrough.
• Used with QEMU.

Virtualize Windows on Linux systems

• Set up Windows 10 virtual machines optimized for gaming, with GPU passthrough.
• Used with KVM.

Stellaris Modding

• Built gameplay scripts and UI hooks for custom content.
• Iterated on mod changes to improve balance.

Rollodex, Quester2000

• Managed schema migrations and models for database structure.

Deployed my portfolio on Oracle Cloud with a reserved IP + DNS routing, plus WireGuard relay experiments using an intermediate host.

• Hosted the portfolio on OCI, pairing a reserved public IP with DNS records for stable routing.
• Used the OCI host as a relay point for WireGuard tests to reach a home server securely.

Repeated bandaging of a broken modpack to encourage a desired storyline.

• Built custom Stellaris mechanics and memory optimizing scripts.

10+ high performance modded servers.

• Backporting of crash fixes to patch a semi-common client side disconnect.
• Added new features with custom mods, and optimized modpacks.