My friends & I traveled across Japan for our university post-grad trip.
About Me
I am a programmer by trade based in Washington state. I got my bachelor's degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Ohio State in 2023--where I was president of Cyber Security Club--and am now a full-time software engineer at Microsoft working on the Xbox operating system team. I specialize in systems design, game programming, and binary reverse engineering/exploitation.
Some Things I've Done/Am Doing
- I wrote an undergraduate thesis on emulating bare-metal Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) firmware for vulnerability analysis under the advisement of Dr. Zhiqiang Lin. On a completely different note, I also helped write a manuscript at the Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence (CDME) about predicting failures in laser powder bed fusion manufacturing.
- I created some MATLAB tools for the Biomedical Research Lab at Case Western Reserve University to make analysis of time-series medical data easier.
- I helped bring back one of my favorite childhood online video games, Cartoon Network's FusionFall, by being a main contributor of the open source server emulator OpenFusion (which I am currently rewriting in Rust!)
- I helped run BuckeyeCTF 2022, a capture-the-flag (CTF) style hacking competition for university students. I authored several challenges in a variety of categories (including web, forensics, reverse engineering, and heap exploitation) and helped with competition logistics & infrastructure.
- I started practicing Japanese on Duolingo during the COVID-19 pandemic and even made a (now defunct) leaderboard for me and my friends to compete on.
- I've been following along with Ben Eater's tutorial on building a fully functional 6502 computer system on breadboards using the kit he sells on his site.
- I made a glorious Discord bot named froge.
- I often volunteer and mentor for FIRST Tech Challenge, a nationwide hands-on high school robotics competition, to get students excited about engineering. You should, too!
- I was a founder of my high school's chess club but am horrible at chess.
- I am trying (and failing) to learn digital music production with a MIDI keyboard I bought off Amazon so that one day I may be deemed worthy by the great Iglooghost.
- I made a LOT of embarassingly crappy Java games, Minecraft mods, and FTL: Faster Than Light tools/mods under a variety of aliases in grade school, and it's how I got to where I am today 😄
- I'm always finding time to play indie roguelite video games like Enter the Gungeon, Slay the Spire, and Wizard of Legend, but I'm also a big fan of the Pokémon and Animal Crossing franchises.