Portfolio

I presented this workshop at the 2022 Berlin Matrix Community Summit with Kim Brose. We covered two Python libraries for writing Matrix bots: maubot and simplematrixbotlib. We presented the libraries and then helped participants create bots using the libraries.

I gave this presentation at the 2022 Berlin Matrix Community Summit. I described Beeper's vision, what we have built so far, what our current challenges are and how we are solving them, and what it's like working at Beeper.

I gave this presentation at the Mines Linux Users Group with Robby Zampino and Dorian Cauwe. We discussed the different types of GUI toolkits available and we presented the pros and cons of three specific GUI toolkits: Flutter, GTK, and Qt.

I gave this presentation at the Mines Linux Users Group with Robby Zampino. We discussed what standards exist, and why open standards are better than closed ones. We also gave a few examples of different open standards in many different industries.

I gave this presentation at the Mines Linux Users Group. I covered the basics of GNU make as well as how to make a Makefile.

I gave this presentation at the Mines Linux Users Group. I covered the basics of the Mutt CLI email client. I discussed the basics of using Mutt and some of the most useful configurations including how to configure it to be used with GPG encryption and signatures.

I gave this presentation at the Mines Cybersecurity Club (OreSec) with David Florness. We discussed the cryptographic theory behind PGP/GPG such as symmetric vs. asymmetric encryption and the PGP protocol. Then we had an interactive time where we showed how to use GPG.

I gave this presentation at the Mines Linux Users Group with Jordan Newport. We covered ZSH, an alternative shell to BASH. We discussed everything from the basics, to some really cool quality-of-life improvements which make using the shell enjoyable.

I gave this presentation at the Mines Linux Users Group with Joseph McKinsey. We gave an extensive introduction to the LaTeX typesetting language. We covered everything from the very basics of using LaTeX all the way up to advanced LaTeX topics such as using it for presentations!

I gave this presentation at the Mines Linux Users Group. I discussed the traditional motif for window management and then presented a better alternative: tiling window managers. I presented i3wm, my personal favourite tiling window manager. I talked about the pros of using it as well as how to use it and customize it.

I first gave this presentation at the Mines Linux Users Group with Sam Sartor. We also gave the presentation for the Wednesday tech talk while interning at Pivotal. In both talks, we covered Idris, dependent types, and using Idris as a proof assistant.

I gave this presentation at the Mines Linux Users Group with Robby Zampino. We covered the background and history of packages and package formats, and some of the new universal package formats: AppImage, Snaps, and Flatpak.

I gave this presentation at the Mines Linux Users Group with Sam Sartor. We covered the background and history of filesystems and some current filesystems used in Linux, Windows, and macOS. We also covered some more fringe filesystems like Btrfs and ZFS and network filesystems such as Samba and sshfs as well as virtual filesystems such as /proc.

I gave this presentation at the Mines Linux Users Group. I discussed what SSH is and its applications and then demonstrated how to configure it for easier login and management. Then I briefly talked about how to set up SSH on your own server.

I gave this presentation at the Mines Linux Users Group with Sam Sartor. We covered the history of JavaScript, gave an overview of the language constructs, and discussed many of the possible pitfalls along the way. We also talked about the DOM and HTML5 Canvas manipulation.

I presented my creative writing piece about Orville and Wilbur Wright at the 2014 CLARO academic conference. I had written this piece for an assignment called A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words. We were tasked with writing an approximately 1000 word narrative from the perspective of a person in a significant photo from the 20^th Century.

This project won Best Use of GCP and the Facebook Best Social Good Hack award at MHacks.

Datanium is a large-scale network of Raspberry Pis which allow for human-powered transfer of data between places with internet access and places which do not. In the Datanium ecosystem, there are two different types of users: consumers and couriers. Consumers request data, and Datanium ensures that couriers move the requested data to the Datanium Node closest to the consuming user. Datanium does this coordination using only SMS.

I worked on the web frontend for requesting and uploading data to the Datanium nodes.

Datanium was a hackathon project by Sam Sartor, Robby Zampino, Fisher Darling, and myself. We developed it during a 36 hour period at the MHacks 2018 hackathon.

This project won Judges Favorite, Best Use of AWS, and the Dish Network sponsor challenge at HackCU.

Wii-Track is a distributed inventory tracking system. It utilizes a WiiFit, Rasberry Pi, and Arduino to gather information about packages. All heavy computation is done on AWS Lambda and it uses the DynamoDB NoSQL database as a backend.

I worked on setting up the DynamoDB database and implemented a AWS Lambda function to identify packages by weight.

Wii-Track was a hackathon project by David Florness, Jack Garner, Robby Zampino, and myself. We developed it during a 24 hour period at the HackCU hackathon.

Read our final report on GitHub.

This was the final project from my independent study in Virtual Reality under the supervision of Dr. Paone. Our team consisted of Sam Sartor, Robbie Merillat, and myself.

We created our own library called flight for developing VR applications which implemented a new type of program architecture called Deferred Immediate Mode.

Wireless Debugging is a mobile SDK and sample web server for streaming mobile app logs to a web UI console. I worked on this project on a team of five CS students during Mines Computer Science Field Session. This project was done under supervision of Google.

We designed and built a mobile API, log parsing library, datastore interface, user management interface, and web app. I was the primary writer of the API Specification for communicating between each component. I also built the log parsing library and the mobile API implementation for iOS. I was involved in the development of the other components as well.

An interactive "screensaver" built for the Mines ACM JavaScript Hackathon.

I built Snowflakes with bungle.js, a team consisting of Sam Sartor, Jack Rosenthal, and myself. We used EaselJS to manipulate a fullscreen canvas to render the interactive elements.

Chess++ was my final project for CSCI 261 at Colorado School of Mines during the Summer II Semester of 2016.

Chess++ allows two players to play a standard Chess game against one another on the computer.

A quadratic equation which shows the steps required to get an answer.

Quadratic Solver uses MathJax to display beautifully formatted solutions to quadratic equations.

The first version did not use MathJax and instead printed out the solved equation in a textarea.