• I'm a Computer Science student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.
• I like making things: cool things, dumb things, and things that don't really work. I like bringing the crazy ideas in my head to life. Sometimes I finish them, sometimes I don't, but I always learn something.
• I'm a swimmer (or, former swimmer). I've learned to thrive under high-pressure situations and stay focused on the details.
• I've been called a perfectionist before because I've written the same code hundreds of times to get it perfect. I don't think that's true. I like exploring; looking through the endless solutions to find the one that's just right.
• I'm a yapper. I love talking about stuff I find cool, but I also love listening to stuff other people find cool--even if I'm not smart enough to understand them.
• I don't drink coffee, but I'm an Earl Grey addict. If you give be a box of Earl Grey tea, you will become my favorite person ever.

A lot. Most of my projects are tiny little toys, scattered across accounts and computers. Now that I'm in college, I decided to create this new Github account (along with a new, professional email). On one hand, this means that I have a blank slate which is so exciting! On the other hand, I don't have much to show you. So, here are some cool projects I've done in the past. You'll have to trust that it's actually me.

• Juke OS: This was a project through RPI's Rensselaer Center for Open Source (RCOS). It's a large, student-motivated group in RPI where team leaders can pitch open source projects and get contributors from a large group of fellow students. I had the opporunity to work on the Juke OS team, where I served as a full-stack developer; responsible for authentication with Spotify and implementing Web Playback with the Spotify SDK.

  RCOS was a tremendous experience, and I plan on returning next year to lead my own project. The project is already in the works, and if you're a swimmer too, it's gonna be awesome.

• 4D Graphics: Have you ever seen Miegakure? Inspired by it, I did some hacking a while ago to see if I could do something similar. Unfortionately, life got in the way, but I hope to get back into it and make it something cool.

  • 4D Raymarching Engine: Based off the work of the wonderful Inigo Quilez, I expanded traditional 3D raymarching algorithms to work in 4D. The math isn't hard, but the results are really cool. Check it out! Repository. Demo.
  • Tesseract Cross Section: Ideally, I want to make a game built around working in and puzzling out a 4D space. In order to do this, it's probably a good idea to use rasterization 'cause that's what GPUs are built for. Like above, the math isn't hard, but it looks REALLY cool. Repository. Demo.
  • Trength Game Engine (Ongoing, On-Hold): A game engine written in C++ to help develop 4D games and realize 4D worlds. So far, only early development has occured (primarily due to scope creep). I definitely want to do more with this soon.
  • Physically Based 4D Raytracing (Ongoing): Inspired by the Raytracing in One Weekend series and the Physically Based Rendering Book, I set out to try and expand physical phenomena to 4D space to ask the question: What would 4D look like in the real world? This has a decent timetable, as I hope to bring it to completion once I take a formal computer graphics course.

• Black Hole Simulation: So many fun projects. So little time. In my senior year of high school, my math teacher gave us a project where we had free rein: do some research in something mathematics and give a presentation on it.

  My group decided to do something borderline trivial: simulation of light around a black hole. We based everything on this paper by Radjaroendee, Jamraschai, and Hirunsirisawat. We created two projects, one 2D simulator (Repository. Demo.) and one partially complete 3D simulator (Repository). Unfortunately, we couldn't get the 3D raytracer working in time, but we were able to get some decent visuals from it.

Make cool stuff.

But that's really general. What does that mean:

• I want to do systems development. I want to better understand what makes computers tick.
• I want to learn about language development. I've written a few compilers in my time, but I want to know how the real developers do it.
• I want to learn about AI; not LLM prompt development or using an existing model to do something it shouldn't. I want to peek into the black box. I want to understand the math and logic that makes AI work, and not just LLMs.
• Quantum computing looks cool. I'm in a quantum computing club, which mostly consists of sitting in student-run lectures and trying to decypher what the smart people are talking about. Right now, I only understand every other word they say. Soon, I'll understand half of what they mean. Later, I plan to teach it.
• This list is non-exhaustive. There are so many things I'm interested in, that I can't even remember it all. There's things I'm interested in that I don't know about yet. That just means I don't know enough yet.

That was all really big and general. Sorry for rambling. This is what I can do.

• Professionally, I have experience developing a scalable, serverless web app with AWS, Python, and Vue.js to provide customers with control over IOT devices. I'm not going to go into everything I did (I've gone on long enough), but below are the skills I've learned:

  • Programming Languages: Python, VueJS, Javascript
  • Ecosystems: AWS. Specifically developing scalable applications using Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, S3, and IOT Core.
  • Soft Skills: Documentation (ooh boy), Planning (weighing benefits and tradeoffs necessary to design and implement a complex feature), Communication, and learning to ask good questions.

• Proficient in systems that I've written code for, but haven't necessary been able to apply in a work environment. I would say I'm good at this (enough to make cool stuff), but I still have work to do to write production-ready code.

  • Programming Languages: C, C++, React (developing cool project)
  • Ecosystems: Google Firebase (cool project)
  • Soft Skills: Leadership, Time Management

• I've touched with a 5 foot pole but I still want to learn more about.

  This will just be a list: Go, Rust, Typescript, SQL