ComputerScience&SystemsStudent

04Projects

• 2026

  Hackathon: Pothole Detector

  A full-stack app that detects road potholes straight from your phone's accelerometer. Built by a team of three in 24 hours; placed 5th of 12 teams at Tacoma's largest hackathon.

  · React Native / Expo app reads accelerometer + gyroscope, reorients so the phone works flat or in a cup holder, and stores events offline in SQLite

  · Only records above a driving-speed threshold so it never logs fake data

  · FastAPI backend confirms each jolt with a Hanning window + Fast Fourier Transform, filtering out speed bumps and turns

  · Clusters hits within 5 m into a single pothole so one rough street doesn't become seventeen

  · Next.js dashboard maps severity and priority for city engineers, who can drag a pothole from "problem" to "resolved"

  TypeScript

  JavaScript

  Python

  SQL

  CSS

  React Native

  Expo

  Next.js

  FastAPI

  PostgreSQL

  SQLite

  Supabase

  Docker

  Cloudflare

  Mapbox

  FFT / Signal Processing

  Event Queue

  AI-Assisted Development

  Technical Overview

• 2020-Present

  Rust Game Server Administrator

  Ran my own multiplayer Rust server, peaking at 500+ concurrent players.

  · Set it up with RCON tools, tuned server resources, and automated the routine upkeep so the experience stayed stable and fair

  · Configured mods and plugins to shape custom gameplay, and scheduled automatic restarts, wipes, and backups to keep downtime low

  · Monitored performance and player load during peak hours, adjusting settings on the fly to hold framerate and stability

  · Moderated players, enforced the rules fairly, and ran a Discord community for announcements, support, and events

  Server Admin

  Linux

  RCON

  500+ Concurrent Users

  Automation

  Performance Tuning

  Moderation

  Community Management

• 2025

  AI Safety: Prompt Engineering Research

  Systematically stress-tested how social framing shifts frontier model behavior — finding repeatable cases where context alone unlocked responses that explicit guardrails were designed to block.

  · Discovered that prosocial framing can alter model compliance even when the underlying request is unchanged

  · Reproduced bypass patterns across multiple top-tier frontier models

  · Documented cases where prompt structure — not content — determined whether a refusal fired

  Prompt Engineering

  Context Engineering

  AI Safety

  LLMs

• 2025

  Course Schedule Grapher

  Mapped university course prerequisites as a directed graph, with a depth-first search (Java Collections Framework) to catch cycles and verify every prerequisite chain in a degree plan holds up.

  · Modeled every course as a node and each prerequisite as a directed edge, building a full degree plan as a DAG

  · Ran depth-first search to detect cycles and flag any prerequisite chain that could never be satisfied

  · Backed the graph with the Java Collections Framework — maps for adjacency, sets to track visited state — for clean, efficient traversal

  · Validated real UW degree plans end to end, surfacing ordering conflicts before they could reach a student schedule

  Java

  Graph Theory

  DAG

  DFS

  Cycle Detection

  Algorithms

  Collections

  GitHub

• 2025-2026

  Personal & UW Websites

  Two hand-built sites, no frameworks.

  · This portfolio: a single content file feeds a small vanilla-JS renderer, so nothing is hardcoded in the markup; ships on Vercel with a custom domain

  · An earlier site in plain HTML and CSS, designed with a deliberate, analytical approach and hosted on the University of Washington school domain

  · Built both to be fast and responsive with semantic, accessible markup — no framework overhead, just hand-written HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

  HTML

  CSS

  Vanilla JS

  Responsive Design

  Accessibility

  UW Domain

  Vercel