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B.Sc. Computer_Science · Class of 2026 · undergraduate_fellow
Undergraduate engineer exploring the intersection of low-level systems and high-density information design. I build terminal-first tooling, embedded telemetry stacks, and human-computer interfaces for resource-constrained environments. Previously: research assistant in the Embedded Systems Lab; currently: shipping a senior capstone on adaptive UIs over flaky links.
experimenting with predictive frame interpolation for telemetry dashboards on flaky links. early results: 38% perceived latency drop. naive baseline: render-on-arrival; ours: render-on-prediction with reconciliation on the next ack.
AmberLint v2 now ~9x faster. zero-copy AST traversal was the unlock. lessons: don't fight the borrow checker, design with it. the type system is a free proof assistant if you stop yelling at it.
phosphor decay is not a bug, it's an animation primitive. the modern web should learn from analog. building this very portfolio convinced me: scanlines + a tasteful flicker > 99% of motion design libraries.
found a PVM-1454Q at a thrift store for $40. soldered a SCART-to-component breakout, fed it from a raspi running framebuffer-only linux. typing at 40fps on real phosphor is a religious experience.
spent a week parsing scientific instrument logs. RFC 4180 is a polite suggestion. the actual format is 'whatever the LabVIEW intern shipped in 2009.' wrote a forgiving parser; should've written a strict one and a converter.