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Notes
Long write-ups and short notes: software engineering, data, systems, and whatever else earns a line.
Spark, HDFS, and Two Databases: A Flight-Data Pipeline in Docker Compose
Building a containerised Spark cluster that ingests OpenFlights data into four different stores, unifies them as permanent SQL tables, and survives three instructive bugs.
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Classifying Licence Plate Characters with a Custom CNN
How I scoped down an ambitious licence plate recognition pipeline to a focused CNN that classifies 36 alphanumeric characters — and what the confusion matrix taught me about practical error handling.
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Firearm Homicides vs Legislation
A Tableau data visualization project exploring the relationship between firearm laws and homicide rates across U.S. states from 1976 to 2023.
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Building My First Game Engine
What I learned building a C++ 2D game engine with ECS, SDL2, and Lua scripting: the decisions that worked, the ones that didn't, and why I'd do it again.
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Building a Lightweight ODM in Python
How I built a custom Object-Document Mapper for MongoDB and Redis in Python — the design decisions, the tradeoffs, and what I'd do differently.
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Vacumcite
A UX design project for a COVID-19 vaccination appointment website, built as a group project for the Fundamentals of UX course at U-tad.
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