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Software engineering, data science, ML, game dev, and academic projects. Each card links directly to the repository, notebook, or demo.

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Featured U-tad Data EngineeringBackend Post ✏️

Distributed Data Processing Pipeline

Dockerised Spark + HDFS environment with Scala ETL jobs loading airline, airport, and route data into PostgreSQL and MongoDB, plus a Spark analysis stage.

A self-contained mini data platform: multi-container infrastructure, JDBC and Spark-connector ingestion, and distributed analysis over flight-network data.

Scala · Apache Spark · HDFS · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Docker Compose

Featured Personal Game DevWeb

Tiny Ski

A 2D ski game built on my own engine, compiled to WebAssembly and playable right on this site.

Procedurally generated courses, three difficulties, synthesized SFX, and a SkiFree-style yeti. Click the card and ski.

C++20 · SDL3 · Lua · sol2 · WebAssembly · Tiled

Featured Personal Game DevSystems

2D Game Engine

2D game engine built from scratch in C++20: SDL3, flat ECS, Lua scripting through sol2, Tiled map loading.

All game logic lives in Lua; the C++ layer owns the ECS and platform. Compiles to WebAssembly and powers Tiny Ski, playable on this site.

C++ · Lua · Sol2 · SDL3 · GLM · CMake · Tiled JSON

The rest

U-tad Machine Learning Post ✏️

Alphanumeric Classification

CNN that classifies 36 alphanumeric characters for licence plate OCR.

90.65% accuracy (MCC 0.907) after tuning batch size, dropout, and validation split on a cleaned EMNIST subset.

Python · Keras · TensorFlow · NumPy · pandas · matplotlib

U-tad Data VizData Analysis Post ✏️

Firearm Homicides vs Legislation

Tableau dashboard analysing firearm homicides in the US.

Interactive visualizations for regional and temporal trends.

Tableau · CSV & Excel data processing · data cleaning

U-tad Backend Post ✏️

Social Media Site ODM

Object-document mapper for MongoDB and Redis implemented in Python.

Lightweight ODM features and examples for common patterns.

Python · pymongo · redis-py · custom serialization

BildyApp

Backend JavaScript app for a fictitious company managing clients, projects, and certifications.

Role-based endpoints and CRUD for core business entities.

Node.js · Express · REST API · JWT · database integration

Portfolio Website

This portfolio and blog website.

Designed and built from scratch.

Astro · JavaScript · CSS · Cloudflare

U-tad BackendSystems

Distributed Systems Exercises

C++ distributed systems exercises covering chat systems and database tutorials.

Hands-on exercises demonstrating concurrency, messaging, and containerized deployment.

C++ · Docker · Kubernetes · networking fundamentals

Personal Game DevSystems Post ✏️

2D Game Engine (archived)

Archived iteration of the 2D game engine, currently has more features than the active rewrite.

Earlier version preserved as a reference; active development continues in engine2d.

C++ · Lua · Sol2 · SDL2 · GLM

U-tad Data VizData Analysis

Fitness Tracking Visualization

Five years of my own Garmin activity data explored in a Jupyter notebook.

Time-series analysis of my real training history, with ipywidgets controls instead of static charts.

Python · pandas · matplotlib · seaborn · plotly · ipywidgets

U-tad Machine LearningNLP

Spam Filtering

Spam-or-not text classification with scikit-learn: NLP preprocessing and feature engineering.

The unglamorous parts done carefully: cleaning and vectorising real message text before any model sees it.

Python · NLP preprocessing · sklearn · feature engineering

U-tad Machine Learning

Dogs vs Cats

The classic dogs-vs-cats Kaggle problem: convolutional networks and transfer learning.

A first serious computer-vision exercise, taken from raw images to a fine-tuned pretrained model.

Python · Keras · TensorFlow · transfer learning

DigiPen Game DevMedia

World of Traps

Speedrun edition of a DigiPen game, built by two college classmates on an engine made from scratch.

Contributed to a game built on a custom engine (freshman year project) including a basic soundtrack.

C++ · CMake · Milkytracker

Coming soon

U-tad UX Post ✏️

Vacumcite

UX design project for a COVID vaccination website.

User flows and accessibility-focused design decisions.

Figma · HTML · CSS prototyping

U-tad Mathematics

AM-apuntes

Real Analysis I & II class notes with linked exercise repositories.

Structured mathematical notes and worked problems.

LaTeX · Markdown

DEV — OST

Original soundtrack for DEV, a DigiPen student game.

Layered soundtrack designed to mirror the game's progression, each track introduces a new element, culminating in the full arrangement.

Milkytracker

Gateway Technologies

Stellaris video guide for Paradox Interactive.

Presenting a videogame guide in an entertaining and infographic manner.

DaVinci Resolve · Adobe After Effects · Audacity · Adobe Photoshop