As my programming knowledge is expanding through my studies in UTCS and self-teaching, I've enjoyed my experiences creating a variety of programs using different technologies. I seek opportunities to challenge myself and expand my skillset, and I am excited to explore my potential of how I can make an impact through computer science, whether it be through software engineering, data science, machine learning, or something else. I'm open to the many possibilities in this field and am excited about how they could change our future.
I'm driven to develop projects meant for a cause, to solve problems, or to enhance the quality of life of a target audience. I'm always open to feedback and criticism on my work to figure out how I can improve, and I observe the impact of my work to see what kinds of additional features users could benefit from.
My most prominent hobby besides coding is playing the piano, which I've done for over 10 years! I've performed in numerous events, such as high school talent shows while duoing with my best friend Jordan, and most recently, at my sister's wedding.
I was taught by my piano teacher, Diane Barnhart, during my middle and high school years. Through her lessons, I had the opportunity to play in many recitals and audition for the National Piano Guild for 5 consecutive years, winning awards for my excellent performance.
My CS friends and I decided that we needed some time outside of the computer labs at the UT GDC and decided to go to each others' apartments and cook. This was the start of us hosting potlucks every two weeks!
We always go all out on our cooking, and enjoy stuffing ourselves once we feast. We show off our unique creations: my main dishes are fish sauce wings and truffle scalloped potatoes! My friends have made dishes such as vodka sauce pasta, onion soup mac n' cheese, you name it!
Nearly every summer, I go traveling around the world with my family. Most of our trips favor sightseeing and visiting famous landmarks. My most recent trips have involved hiking in places such as mountains in Vermont and the Grand Canyon.
It'd probably be helpful to keep a travel log and some albums. Since I was young, my parents had taken me cruising around the Caribbean islands, touring around Hawaii, flying to Europe, and so on... it's harder to think of where I haven't been!
Since middle school, I was influenced by my friends to listen to mostly hip-hop. My favorite artist of all time is Kid Cudi, and Man on the Moon is my favorite album. I've also gone to numerous hip-hop concerts: one of them was Logic, which I got a VIP pass and met him in-person!
I also joined an on-campus organization called Texas Traditions, where we set up our biggest campus-wide events such as Forty Acres Fest. Waka Flocka Flame was our headliner for 2019, and we met him after his concert!
A Discord web-scraping bot that uses endpoints from RoyaleAPI to show players' card quantities in the mobile game Clash Royale. Discord users can input various commands (who has or who wants a card, which cards of a certain player are tradable), create a wishlist of cards they want, and display a list of smart trade results based on everyone's wishlists.
The bot was initially created using Java, with a MySQL backend to map Discord users to their player tags (using Hibernate) so their player information can be retrieved through HTTP requests. Wishlists were stored in a local directory as JSON files.
My main contributions to this bot included:
A series of Android Java applications created using Android Studio through a remote class on CodePath. These apps included a Flixster app that showed the most popular movies that are now playing, as well as Twitter and Instagram clone apps. The Flixster and Twitter apps used an API to retrieve data, while the Instagram app used a Parse backend to store users and posts.
This remote class taught students the fundamentals of creating Android apps, including:
