Diderot

full stack developer and entrepreneurial lead for CMU tech startup

• Received $550,000 in funding from NSF, chosen as project Entrepreneurial Lead for I-Corps Program
• Created a virtual AI teaching assistant for university courses using generative large language models
• Managed cloud infrastructure for webservers, API endpoints, and load balancers
• Supported hundreds of students using our project and thousands of daily API hits
• Adapated technology for industry use with "Shopify-style" Javascript widget
• Received and worked upon valuable feedback from our Y Combinator application and discussion with Kleiner Perkins VC

technologies: OpenAI, Typescript/React, Django, AWS, Docker, Postgresql

db.wrct.org

comprehensive music database for college radio station

After maintaining WRCT's old music database -- originally created in 2002, in Perl -- I rebuilt the system from scratch in Summer 2024 to replace what was previously a nightmare for UX, modularity, and portability. Several previous attempts have been made to replace the database before this, but this was the first to successfully be completed and deployed.

For this project I worked closely with community members on designing their ideal system for cataloguing and reviewing music, and focused on code longevity and documentation. I fully expect this web application to work for the next 20 years, or however long it's necessary for the radio station.

technologies: Django, Docker, nginx, Perl, MariaDB

WRCT Chief Engineer

chief engineer of college radio station

Since Spring of 2022, I've been working with WRCT's engineering department on various tasks around the station. Freshman year: I created a reverse proxy server to host our infrastructure, migrated web servers to HTTPS, and created scripts to automate these processes. Sophomore year: I reconstructed, upgraded, and containerized legacy programs with Docker, migrating everything to a cloud Linux server I configured. This was the end of a years-long effort to modernize the radio station's backened. Junior year: I completely migrated how we track and manage what gets played on air, switching the station to an industry standard and away from older, custom software.

Throughout all of these processes I've written extensive documentation, trained teammates in relevant skills, and worked closely with station members to create software and infrastructure that met our needs.

I also spun straight musical fire I'd serve regularly from the station's vinyl collection.

technologies: Linux, Bash, Docker, Nginx, SQL, PHP, Python, Perl, SMTP servers, DNS routing, Ham Radio

Pinup Posters Courier Collective

bike messenger and programmer

My freshman year of college I worked as a bike messenger for a local collective, delivering and hanging up hundreds of posters every week to store fronts, community buildings, and walls across the city.

The next year I returned with a web application I created from scratch to manage various aspects of the business -- an internal wiki to store training documents, a map to catalogue postering spots across different neighborhoods, a custom calendar for tracking events, and time management tools to manage employee payroll.

technologies: React, Django, Sqlite3, Mapbox (JS)