This is the second version of my portfolio website, built using Vue.js and Chakra UI. I wanted to create something that would set me apart from other students and job applicants, so I decided to build a portfolio website that showcases my skills and abilities.

Before building the first version of my portfolio website, I had no experience in web development. However, I was eager to learn and took the initiative to teach myself HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Within a few weeks, I was able to start work on the first version of my portfolio using React.js. Although I had no prior web development experience, I was happy with the results and proud to show my portfolio to potential employers and colleagues.

Over the course of two semesters, I worked with a team of four other students to design, build, and deliver an interactive web application for a client. Our project was guided by the principles of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), and we meticulously documented each phase from initial design and requirement gathering to final delivery and maintenance.

We were tasked with interfacing a user-friendly front-end, built using Typescript, React, and Vite, with the client's Oracle database via Sequelize, an Object-Relational Mapping tool. Our initial mandate was to focus on front-end development, with the understanding that the back-end infrastructure was already in place.

For my final project in Network Engineering, I had the opportunity to gain practical experience with DigitalOcean, a leading cloud infrastructure provider. I successfully set up and hosted a reverse proxy server on a DigitalOcean droplet, leveraging an Nginx server. The server was meticulously configured to serve a replica of my portfolio site via a dedicated subdomain.

This project involved multiple stages and showcased my proficiency in various aspects of network engineering, in addition to deepening my practical understanding of DigitalOcean's services. The first step involved setting up and configuring an Nginx webserver on the DigitalOcean droplet. I ensured that it was correctly configured to handle incoming traffic and requests efficiently, thus setting the foundation for the remaining stages of the project.

For my final project in my Sequential Logic Systems course at university, my partner and I successfully developed a functional rendition of the classic game of Pong using Verilog, ultimately implementing it on an Altera FPGA. This project provided a robust exploration into the practical applications of our learned concepts in the course, encapsulating the essence of digital design and hardware programming.

We were given foundational modules to accurately manage VGA monitor output and CPU timings, and we built upon this foundation by creating the core game logic ourselves. My key contributions lay in designing the play area and crafting the visual elements of the game, which included the ball and the paddles. Not only did I create the visual components, but I also wrote the logical elements that governed their interaction within the play area. This involved designing the movement of the ball, as well as the detection of collisions between the ball, paddles, and the edges of the game area.

In my Embedded Systems course at the University of Maine, I undertook an intriguing project to connect a PS/2 keyboard to a Raspberry Pi through the General-Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) pins. This project was an exploration into the realms of hardware interfacing, device drivers, and real-time programming in an embedded context.

The central component of the project was a C program that I wrote, which read the scan codes from the keyboard and decoded these inputs to display the corresponding characters on the terminal. This program demonstrated my proficiency in low-level programming and understanding of keyboard interfacing protocols.