I worked with staff at my local church to design and execute a virtual service solution during COVID.

• Professionalism
  • Working with church leaders to budget and purchase a capable PC, camera, and router
  • Leading and training of a team to continue running the stream indefinitely
• System administration
  • Setup and management of a Linux system, then migration to Windows
• Software engineering
  • Custom camera control (pan/tilt/zoom) software built with the NewTek NDI SDK
  • Initially on Linux in C++ with GTK, ported to Windows in Python with tkinter
  • Also interfaced with Launchpad hardware via RtMidi library

As my senior capstone project, I conducted security research into, and was able to defeat, an HTTPS connection fingerprinting method.

• Software engineering
  • Research into, and modification of, the OpenSSL C library
  • Customizable reimplementation of Python's "ssl" module
  • Simple user interface with tkinter
  • Changes and readme tracked via Git and published on GitHub (23 stars)
• Professionalism
  • Creation and presentation of a project pitch to teachers
  • Planning and execution of a fine-grained timetable with help from my mentor
  • Presentation and demo of the final product to teachers

Using online resources, I developed a Minecraft man-in-the-middle proxy, which allows for inspection and modification of encrypted game traffic.

• Software engineering
  • Implementation of Minecraft protocol given existing specifications
  • Easy-to-read packet log UI, simple public "handler" API (example usage)
  • Usage implementing quality-of-life Hypixel changes (better friends list, etc.)
  • Changes documented and tracked via Git and published on GitHub
  • Project uses TCP sockets, multithreading, encryption + decryption, serialization + deserialization, OOP techniques

I built and tested a cross-platform statistics viewer for the popular Minecraft minigame BedWars.

• Software engineering
  • Creative system to read game information from log file entries
  • Flexible cross-platform design
  • Simple-yet-effective user interface
  • Updates and installation instructions tracked via Git and published on GitHub
• Professionalism
  • Beta testing with other Hypixel players/friends
  • Incorporation of feedback into the initial design
  • Update system so users can easily get the latest changes

I've been doing research into the internals of the Python language, and building a Python to C++ code translator.

• Advanced software engineering
  • Understanding of the C language and compiler, to replicate the CPython interpreter's behavior
  • Understanding of assembly for a stack-based VM
  • Ability to weigh memory vs time complexity to optimize for different constraints
  • Heavy object-oriented project design to keep algorithms abstract and readable
• Professionalism
  • Created reference material based on research for later usage
  • Plans to publish project on GitHub when it's in a more mature state