Projects

My personal website, built with Astro and Svelte, showcasing my programming and music projects. It's designed to be playful and barebones to reflect my personality.

This was my capstone project for college. Collaborated on the development of a web based job board platform modeled after dating apps, enabling recruiters and candidates to connect based on skills and location to streamline the job-search to first-interview process. Employed Agile (RAD) process methodology for project planning and iteration including documentation/User Stories, models and mockups, weekly design review/approval check ins, tri-weekly standups, solution development, and acceptance tests.

Developed a Discord bot with natural language processing for text and voice interactions, featuring a flexible AI manager that supports integration with multiple AI models (e.g., OpenAI, Perplexity, Claude), a modular plugin system for additional add-ons, and a custom function calling system for web searches and multimedia retrieval. Some add-ons I implemented were a chat history and personalized memory management system with encrypted serialized files, allowing the bot to retain context, manage conversation threads, note feelings about users, and persist data across sessions and servers for seamless user experience. Note: A lot of this functionality was made easier by providers over the years, but this was made prior to a lot of these advancements.

Researched on code vulnerabilities and how much the Rust language mitigates them by default to aid the writing of a related white paper. Categorized and analyzed CWEs based on Rust’s built-in protections. Developed a set of Python scripts and a Zola based static site to calculate, output, update, and finally display vulnerability metrics efficiently.

Planned, Designed, and Implemented a Peer Evaluation feature inside of a live Project Development Portal to simplify the processes taken by Admins, Coaches, and Students by making the feature in-house instead of relying on third party solutions. Acted as a facilitator and team planner as well as managing project actions via GitHub Projects.

A json and toml preprocessor tool that allows users to create a theme language that can be used to create and generate themes for multiple code editors and IDEs from a single source of truth. Currently supports Zed, VSCode, and Textmate. The tool has custom syntax support recursive variables, self referring variables, HSL HSV RGB and HEX modifiable colors e.g. $color::lightness+10. This tool was used to create many themes for zed found here: https://github.com/blaqat/zed-extensions

Developed a FreeRTOS-based real-time simulation of a bank environment, leveraging a multifunction shield on a STM32 microcontroller for displaying and managing customer queues and teller operations on an LCD. Implemented a multithreaded system using FreeRTOS tasks, queues, and semaphore handlers for dynamic customer queuing and secure data handling.

Engaged in customer discovery to identify market needs, testing the viability and user interaction level of AI and computer vision integrated solutions, enabling further research and potential development for the client. Used Azure and OpenAI services to build a MVP in React/Tailwind/TS, managed communications via a Flask server, and enhanced digital experiences with Unity through a websocket client and blender animations.

Using Rust, I created a program that can understand and run a part of the Forth programming language, which works with an interrior stack of data in memory. I also made a Lexer that turns input strings into tokens, which are easier to process and execute.

A Midi Player in C lang, which can interpret midi files and play songs through an STM32 microcontroller using Digital to Analog Conversion. I have also incorporated key controls for the player, such as play, pause, stop, volume control, and sound wave changing. The player has a dual-mode functionality that allows it to receive inputs from both local and terminal sources. Through this project, I have enhanced my skills in microcontroller interfaces ( including UART, GPIO, Interrupts, and Systick) and bit operations

Collaborating with 3 other students to develop a web app of Anglo-American checkers using Java, Javascript, Spark, and Freemarker for the code base and web server connections Utilizing Agile (OpenUp) framework to plan the entire development process of the web app. Writing documentation and User Stories, coding solutions for solution tasks, and performing acceptance tests. Collaborating with 3 other students to develop a web app of Anglo-American checkers using Java, Javascript, Spark, and Freemarker for the code base and web server connections Utilizing Agile (OpenUp) framework to plan the entire development process of the web app. Writing documentation and User Stories, coding solutions for solution tasks, and performing acceptance tests.

I had been working on a project that involves creating a Discord bot using node.js. The bot can take a song link from https://www.beepbox.co/ or a shortened link that redirects to it, and convert it into a ReadableStream that can be played in Discord voice chats. The bot also has a queue system that shows the songs that are currently playing or waiting to be played. Another feature of the bot is that it can search for songs from Google Sheets that contain song submissions from users. The bot uses the Google Sheets API to parse through the sheets and find the links by Title, Artist Name, or other criteria. The bot then displays the results in a vertical list format for the user to choose from. Some of the challenges I faced while developing this project were reverse engineering existing code, parsing user input commands, and pulling data from websites with HTTP requests. I learned a lot from this project and I am proud of the outcome.