Portfolio

Since starting college, I have worked on many projects, both personal and for various courses. I wanted to take this chance to reflect on them and display both what I learned and what came out of the bigger projects. As I progress through college, I was trying to figure out exactly what I wanted to do in the work force, and my personal projects are a great representation of my learning and exploration for my future.
With that in mind, I am currently interested in artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation, and robotics, however I am still very early in my learning for the subject with plans to take a course on it this upcoming spring semester. I am also interested in application development and full stack.
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Projects

Senior Design

I am currently enrolled in the second part of senior design, and with it comes many challenges. Our overall task is to create a web application that works on most standard browsers along with an algorithm to determine the best orientation of cables of varying quantities and diameters. This is so the user can find the smallest possible bore size when placing cables underground. Since we are still on the first semester of this course, we have not done much development, but instead we are communicating with our client, Alliant Energy, to clarify and establish our tasks to get the project rolling in the next semester. As we are still early in the project planning cycle, roles are not set in stone, but currently I am set to be QA Engineering on the project. Further updates to the project will be posted as it continues through the semester.

Personal Website

This website has been quite a project as well. I have had the AWS instance that it sits on since August 2020. The initial purpose was to act as a VPN for personal use via openVPN. This AWS box would eventually evolve into this very website, as in early January of this year I would buy the domain and set a new goal to learn how to set up a website and create one from scratch. It started as just writing static HTML and CSS within, before evolving into being React based around the middle of April. I spent many hours reading the documentation for it along side watching video tutorials on the content to gain a better understanding.

This project is still in the works, with new additions coming in as I develop and complete them. As it stands though, I learned a lot about how to get a website going from scratch, make it from the ground up, and properly maintain it. Another fun part I learned about in the process was how to use Docker with the AWS instance running the site through a docker instance right now.

A Shell in C

This project was completed in Computer Engineering 308, Operating Systems, in my spring 2021 semester. The objective was to create a realistic shell similar to those you would find on any instance of Linux, of course the nature to make the shell do everything a standard shell could would be a bit out of scope for the course, so it is able to do all base functions such as navigating through directories or executing files. I think the coolest part of the project was the ability to forward unknown commands to the real shell for that to execute instead. The code is currently private on my github to respect the university's academic honesty policy, however will become public on a future date.

A Raytracer in C++

I personally really enjoyed working on this project, I am currently enrolled in Computer Science 336, Computer Graphics. In it, we are learning how computers render images and scenes via raytracing engines. This project specifically, the task was to create our own raytracer piece by piece. It began with just a simple ray caster that would shoot a single ray per projected pixel to display a sphere in 3D space. This would be labeled as a rudimentary "ray-caster". This would continue to evolve into a proper raytracer. The most recent component added to the project are various material properties that can be added to spheres. Another component that was added is triangles, yes literally, and these are used (currently) as the floor for the renders.