Keypad with Volume Control Ongoing; December 2025

Overview

Designing a custom mechanical keypad with integrated volume control knob from ideation to usage in the real world.

Process

• Designed and drew circuit on paper; transferred schematic to a digital, professional design
• Created PCB design in Kicad, utilizing aSTM32 chip with auxilary hardware to provide interrupts
• Ordered parts and PCB from manufacturer; currently in assembly and testing phase
• TODO: assemble and test version 1 of board, write firmware using C for key customization and rotary encoder control

Challenges

• PCB Design: First time designing an entire electronic component from scratch; learning the nuances of trace width, component placement, and manufacturability.
• Firmware Development: Planning to implement efficient firmware to handle key presses and rotary encoder inputs with minimal latency is an avenue different from my other firmware projects

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RFID Door System Completed July 2021

Overview

Developed a secure access control system using the ESP-IDF framework. The project focused on real-time response and reliable sensor interfacing.

Process

• Designed system architecture to integrate RFID reader, door strike, and environmental sensors.
• Prototyped software in Arduino, implemented FreeRTOS tasks to manage concurrent operations for reading RFID tags and controlling the door mechanism.
• Collaborated with a team to set up cloud logging for access events using Pub/Sub architecture via Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Challenges

• Concurrency: Managed FreeRTOS tasks to ensure the door strike remained responsive while logging data to the cloud.
• Cloud Team Collaboration: Got up to speed with cloud communication patterns in order to ensure secure and accurate communcation to AWS cloud services

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Drawalong - Collaborative Drawing Application Ongoing; January 2026

Overview

An application written using C and SDL to let multiple people draw on the same canvas over an internet connection. Created to exercise principles learned in Beej's Guide to Network Programming.

Process

• Set up basic window and graphics rendering using the SDL2 library.
• Implemented networking code to allow multiple clients to connect to a designated "host" and share drawing data in real-time.
• Designed a selection system (key shortcuts + TUI) for selecting colors and brush sizes.

Challenges

• Packet Architecture: Designing the network packets to ensure all necessary information is sent/received while maintaining speed and reliability
• Multi-Platform Support: Currently using the Windows implementation of the sockets API; need to add adjustments for Linux library as well

NFL Yardage Classifier Last updated - October 2025

Overview

A binary classification model built to predict player performance. This project involved extensive data scraping, cleaning, and feature engineering.

Process

• Utilized Pandas to perform exploratory data analysis on available features; construct dataframe with engineered features
• Implemented and tuned XGBoost classifier for an efficient and accurate decision forest
• Engineered custom features based on hypothetical metrics to boost accuracy from a baseline 61% to over 68% during 113 game sampling window.

Challenges

• Feature Creep: Had to limit the amount of feature engineering done to ensure performance-training time tradeoff was sound.
• Data Integration:Migrating from manually uploading CSV files to utilizing libraries with similar data was difficult, but rewarding to learn.

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SeedScraper - Data scraper for Start.gg Last updated - October 2025

Overview

Given a tournament with public seeding data, SeedScraper will retrieve the top N seeds (where N is a specified number). This list is then available immediately with an option to export to a CSV

Process

• Drafted short script in Python to interact with native start.gg API
• Created simple UI in TKinter for graphical navigation
• Implemented feature to export scraped data into a CSV, downloaded natively on the user's computer