Projects

Summary:

Personal Project: A web application that combines a season-long college football imperialism game with a rich data hub for fans.

Details:

A custom hub for college football fans featuring a custom imperialism game with persistent leagues, a scoreboard dashboard showing all games and live scores, team history pages, and a map of all FBS teams. Built with a Next.js frontend, C# ASP.NET backend, CFB Data API for the data, and MongoDB database.

Work in progress: Automated pipeline for updating imperialism data weekly during the season. Adding user profiles and social features. Improving mobile responsiveness. Live hosting and deployment.

Summary:

School project: A CLI-based chess server and client application.

Details:

CLI-based chess platform with a networked client/server architecture supporting multiple concurrent games and authenticated player sessions. The server exposes HTTP and WebSocket endpoints, persists users and games in a MySQL database, and supports reconnecting to in-progress matches. Designed to highlight clean software architecture, robust serialization, database persistence, unit testing, and secure login flows.

Work in progress: Implementing a web-based frontend using React. Adding AI opponent.

Summary:

School Project: Full-stack social media platform rebuilt from educational template.

Details:

Refactored monolithic starter code into production-ready social platform with real user auth, dynamic feeds, friend networks, and full post CRUD. Consolidated multiple similar components into a few base components using render props and custom hooks, and eliminating all code duplication. Added infinite scroll, proper error handling, loading states, and responsive design.