My first brush with coding was back in 2015. My Programming 1 teacher introduced basic programming concepts using MIT's Scratch. I was blown away. Combining my one true love—Lego—with computers? The very same computers that, in my 16 year-old mind at least, were mainly used for video games? A stroke of genius. However, to my shock and horror, Scratch was not all there was. No, the truth was there was far, far more to programming than I had initially considered: languages. Not gonna lie, I was pretty bummed when I found out programming was mostly... words. And writing. I've more or less come around on it these days, but I still find myself longing for the tactile snap of block-based programming—something that partially inspired my honor's thesis in 2021.
Nowadays, I try to keep the spirit of Scratch alive by building interfaces that emulate that satisfying feeling of playing with blocks, keeping a focus on UX and accessibility. My current project is Brewd, a coffee-rating application with a vintage flair, inspired by platforms like Letterboxd, Backloggd, and Untappd.
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Worked in UF's Human-Centered Computing Lab on two projects, PPCards and BlockXR. Both projects centered on augmented reality interfaces designed to incorporate AR into tangible circuit-building and coding tutorials. Incorporated real-time feedback projected onto the workspace to alert users to mistakes, and provided contextual suggestions to correct errors. Co-authored published research papers on both projects.
Developed computer vision software using open-source machine-learning libraries for autonomous robotics. Used OpenCV's pre-trained deep neural networks module with Java to facilitate recognition of several kinds of objects that the robot interacted with contextually.
Currently brewing. Brewd is a coffee-rating web app that helps users discover, rate, and share their coffee experiences, inspired by platforms like Letterboxd, Untappd, and Backloggd.
8 projects
A contrast checker for WCAG & APCA, a font picker, a contrast enhancer, and a colorblindness simulator walk into a bar. Available in English, Spanish, and Lithuanian.
Built with a heavy focus on accessibility, including full screen-reader and keyboard support, verified with axe DevTools against WCAG 2.1.
A tangible version of Google's Blockly, built on lessons from PPCards. Ran user studies on campus and presented a showpiece at VL/HCC in October 2021.
A card-based augmented reality learning platform for prototyping electronic circuits. Presented a prototype at ACM TEI 2021.
An Open Gaming License-compliant alternative to sites like D&D Beyond, using React and Redux to manage each player's character, with multiplayer parties.
A responsive React replacement for UF's Textbook Exchange, aiming to modernize the look and cut load times by at least 50%.
Replaced an outdated WordPress site with a responsive React app, prototyped in Figma, with order and payment processing via Stripe.
A React app with no template and no CSS library — a reminder that those tools exist for a reason. It turned out okay, if a little clunky.