Proof of Work

An AI-powered issue-management system for the Eclipse Adoptium working group, integrating multiple models (ChatGPT, Gemini, LLaMA-3) behind a FastAPI server, with a Slack interface now used by Eclipse OpenJ9 teams.

My first real software-engineering role. Turns out most of it isn't typing — it's arguing about trade-offs. I was mentored by people well out of my league at Microsoft, IBM and Red Hat. Our team was called the Tigers, which I still think is a good name.

A digital platform for finding missing persons, pets and items through community collaboration, built for CMU-Q's Lifelines hackathon.

My first hackathon. I nearly said no — one year into CS, surrounded by people who clearly knew what they were doing. We built around the strain of a search, not the database, and finished 13th. It landed in my worst semester academically, and I'd still point at it first.

An interactive 3D cube game built in CMU Graphics as my 15-112 term project. Rotate individual faces, view the cube from any angle, and solve it virtually.

I had no idea what to build, so I started flat and 2D. Faking the third dimension was the one clever idea, and against the odds it held together.

A FastAPI service for managing bookings, courses, tutor availability and users, backed by MongoDB with async operations throughout.

Built for fun, and because I wanted to understand what async actually buys you before someone asked me about it in an interview.