Professional2021 — present
A processor built from the ground up
Kernel, task scheduler and communication protocol written from nothing, in C and Ada, now in production and distributed globally.
In production. Globally distributed.
CAdaRTOSBare metal
Portfolio
Things I've built, and what each one taught me
Production defense software I can only describe in outline, research projects with the numbers attached, and side projects I built because something annoyed me. Sorted by how much I want you to read them.
Capstone2021
Sign Language Interpretation System
Control any smart device with American Sign Language — hand tracking, a gesture classifier and grammar correction, wired together over a client-server link.
98.8% accuracy across 14 hand gestures
PythonTensorFlowComputer visionCNN
Research2025
Patient Care Portal Triage
An NLP pipeline that routes patient portal messages to the right team and surfaces relevant evidence-based research while they wait for a human.
Classifies sentence embeddings into care teams, then retrieves supporting research
PyTorchEmbeddingGemmaNLPInformation retrieval
Personal2023 — present
Bindersnap
GitHub for everyone who doesn't use GitHub — document management, review lifecycle, team collaboration, search and an in-browser editor.
Started because my wife complained about her company's policy platform
GoVueAWSSQL
Professional2023
A system library that runs anywhere
One portable C++ library targeting any RTOS or bare-metal system, packaged with Docker, Bazel and GitLab CI — cutting porting work by 4×.
4× fewer engineering hours spent on porting
C++BazelDockerGitLab CI
School2026
LaCam for Multi-Agent Path Finding
A from-scratch LaCam solver for CS440 — agents searching a space of joint configurations, each expanded by a constraint tree that rules out collisions and swaps.
Search over joint configurations, not per-agent paths — the whole trick of LaCam
PythonSearchMulti-agent systems
Personal2024
PlayableWordlet
A word guessing game built in Flutter and compiled to the web — playable right here, no install, no account.
Play it in the browser in about two seconds
DartFlutterWeb
School2020
Reinforcement Learning applied to Tetris
An agent that learns to play Tetris — a genuinely fun excuse to get hands-on with reward shaping.
PythonReinforcement learning
School2020
Handwritten digit recognition with weighted KNN
A KNN classifier for handwritten digits, plus a k-value optimizer that collapses repeated distance calculations into a single pass.
Optimizes k without recomputing distances per candidate
PythonKNNOptimization
School2020
ID3 mushroom classification
A from-scratch ID3 decision tree that predicts whether a mushroom is edible or poisonous from its attributes.
PythonDecision treesInformation gain
School2021
Healthcare length-of-stay estimator
A data mining project predicting how long a patient will stay, from admission-time features.
Pythonscikit-learnData mining
Personal2026
This website
A static site built with Astro, hosted free on GitHub Pages, designed so writing a post costs one markdown file and nothing else.
Zero JavaScript on most pages
AstroTypeScriptTailwindGitHub Pages
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