Projects

A mix of what I've shipped for work, for hackathons, and for classes. Some are polished, some are rough around the edges, but each one taught me something.

Winner — Anthropic Claude Builder Hackathon 2026 Flagship

AdaptIQ, LLC

An accessible AI web suite for neurodivergent job seekers — a mock interview platform designed with predictability and accommodation built in from the start, rather than bolted onto a generic interview tool.

  • Co-Founder · 2026–present
  • Architected AWS infrastructure across EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, and RDS to support over 1,000 platform sessions, with network segmentation, least-privilege access, and encrypted storage.
  • Standardized security and access controls across 5 core AWS services during the migration to AWS, configuring security groups, firewall rules, IAM policies, and database permissions.
  • Automated 4 recurring infrastructure workflows with Python and Bash: deployment, monitoring, configuration, and system maintenance.
AWSPythonBashFirebase

AI PDF Study Assistant

Built January–April 2026. A full-stack RAG app for document-grounded Q&A with cited page numbers. Uses FastAPI, React, and Google Gemini with strict context-only prompting to reduce unsupported answers.

Gemini embeddings and FAISS similarity search retrieve the 5 most relevant passages from semantically chunked text in under a second.

PythonFastAPIFAISSGemini APIReact

Battlesnake — Thunga

A competitive Battlesnake AI using A* pathfinding, flood fill, Voronoi space control, and an opponent profiler that classifies enemies into archetypes and adapts in real time, all within a 200ms budget.

PythonFastAPIDocker

Privacy Pulse

Built November 2025–January 2026. A Chrome extension that uses the webRequest API to identify over 100 trackers across 7 categories, including advertising, fingerprinting, and data brokers.

Calculates a real-time privacy score with O(1) tracker lookups and updates Chart.js visualizations in under 100 ms.

JavaScriptChrome Extensions APIChart.js

Culinary Connoisseurs

Full-stack catering management platform built for a course. PHP + MySQL backend, complex JOIN queries for an admin dashboard, AJAX real-time chatbot, and SQL injection prevention throughout.

PHPMySQLAJAX

Student Productivity Hub

All-in-one productivity app combining a task manager, grade calculator, Pomodoro timer, notes app, and an analytics dashboard surfacing patterns across all modules.

ReactNode.jsExpress

Station Zero

First-person survival game on an abandoned space station, built in Unity. Enemy AI uses a finite state machine with NavMesh pathfinding and custom sound-investigation behaviors.

UnityC#Game Design

Personal Expense Tracker

Desktop finance tracker built with Python and Tkinter — Matplotlib charts for category breakdown and spending over time, full CRUD with filtering.

PythonTkinterMatplotlib