About Me

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I'm a Senior at Florida State University majoring in Computer Science with a minor in Information Technology. I specialize in Cyber‑Security and Full Stack Development, with a special interest in Computational Astrophysics. I enjoy using technology to explore the world and uncover new ideas.

Experience

Webmaster - Department of Computer Science Incoming Summer 2025

Serving as the department webmaster, handling all website programming, updating, design, content re-factorization, and database administration.

Tech Fellow - CodePath Jan 2025 – May 2025

Supported instruction and mentoring for CodePath’s Cybersecurity 102 course, providing technical assistance, leading labs, and helping manage a nationwide cohort of over 6,000 students.

Web Developer - Premium Pressure Washing South Florida Dec 2024 – Present

Designed and deployed a fast, scalable website for a pressure washing business using Next.js, Nginx as a reverse proxy, and PM2 for process management. Built a dynamic landing page with an image showcase, services section, and contact form, secured with SSL and optimized for performance.

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Research Assistant - Florida State University Oct 2024 – Present

Serving as CS lead and analyzing space telescope data to identify supernovae. Co‑Investigator on two JWST proposals focusing on photometric calibration and spectroscopic follow‑ups of high‑redshift supernovae. Developed the Supernova Hunter, a website designed to aide in the identification of supernova in telescope images from JWST, HST, and Euclid.

Supernova Hunter

Personal Portfolio Website Feb 2025 - Present

Developed this personal website using modern web technologies including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript—with interactive 3D graphics powered by Three.js. The site is hosted on a high-performance Nginx server configured with SSL and caching optimizations for fast, secure, and reliable access.

Education

Bachelors in Computer Science Florida State University | 2021 – Spring 2025

Focus in cybersecurity and full-stack development.

Bachelors in Physics & Astrophysics Florida State University | Incoming Summer 2025

Second degree focused on astrophysics in preparation for PhD in computational astrophysics.

Technical Skills

Programming Languages & Frameworks

C++ & C
Python
C#
MERN Stack
Next.js
HTML5
CSS
PHP

Tools & Technologies

Nginx
Git & GitHub
XAMPP
MySQL
Wireshark
SSH
Splunk
Kali Linux
Ubuntu
WordPress

Projects

Supernova Hunter

A full-stack FastAPI and Next.js web app for authenticated exploration and tagging of deep space telescope images from JWST, HST, and Euclid, featuring JWT login, image filtering, and real-time dashboard analytics.

Coming Soon

Multi-System Metric Dashboard

A Flask web app for real-time and historical system monitoring and user management, featuring Google OAuth, Netdata API, Chart.js visualizations, Flask-Admin interface, and deployed via Gunicorn with Nginx.

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French Club Portal

A full-stack web application for managing a university French Club, featuring member authentication, event scheduling, announcements, and media galleries, built with Flask and React and deployed on a private Linux server using Gunicorn and Nginx.

Coming Soon

Elevator Kernel Module

A C-based Linux kernel module simulating an elevator system with real-time scheduling, passenger queuing, weight limits, and /proc interface controls. Features custom thread management, syscall hooks, and stateful logic for floor-by-floor operation.

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FAT32 Filesystem Shell Utility

A C-based user-space shell for navigating and manipulating FAT32 disk images. Supports directory traversal, file I/O, creation, deletion, renaming, and more—mimicking a minimal shell environment over a raw filesystem image.

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Task Manager

A full-stack task management platform built with MongoDB, Express, React, and Node.js, featuring role-based permissions, team and organization controls, JWT-secured authentication, and calendar-based task tracking.

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Real Estate Listing

A PHP and MySQL-based real estate listing platform with search filters, agent and buyer info display, and manual SQL query execution, hosted locally using XAMPP and featuring a dynamic HTML frontend.

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SQL Injection Website

A Node.js and SQLite web app showcasing SQL Injection vulnerabilities through a login demo, with mitigation via regex validation and parameterized queries using Express.js.

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Custom Shell Prompt

A C-based shell implementation supporting piping, I/O redirection, background execution, tilde and environment variable expansion, and built-in commands—emulating key Unix shell behaviors with $PATH-based command resolution.

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Organizations

ColorStack Chapter at FSU

President and Founder, Coming Soon: Fall 2025

Supernova Hunting Team

Research group under Professor Nao Suzuki at FSU, dedicated to identifying and classifying supernovae. Serving as CS Lead for data processing and photometric analysis.

Astro Journal Club

Participate in weekly sessions reviewing cutting-edge research in cosmology and astrophysics, with open discussion led by faculty.

CodePath501(c)(3)

Completed CodePath's Technical Interview Prep and Intermediate Cybersecurity courses, enhancing problem‑solving abilities and building hands‑on security skills.

ColorStack501(c)(3)

Supporting an organization dedicated to increasing equity for Black, Latinx, and other underrepresented students in tech through academic resources and community events.

Men4Choice501(c)(3)

Led meetings to educate and mobilize men as advocates for reproductive freedom, dismantling stigma and advancing equitable access to reproductive healthcare.

French Club (Webmaster)

Association for IT Professionals (Member)

Codeducation (Member)

Cybersecurity Club at FSU (Member)

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (Member)

The Writing Club at FSU (Member)

Interests

Contact

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