Personal Projects

Personal prototypes, game engines, security research, and competition projects.

Maerica Server

2025

Built home server infrastructure for personal projects and services across Windows, Linux (Debian and Arch), and macOS.
Host game and media servers, websites, and self-hosted build agents in Docker.
Central OpenID Connect (OIDC) provider, event ingest, and analytics for all services.
Built AI automation for daily and weekly operations.
Use AI-assisted workflows to design and propose new infrastructure features.

2019 – 2021

For two years during World of Warcraft Classic, led 40-player guild raids and organized weekly events, including encounter preparation, role assignments, and live coordination.
Achieved realm-fastest raid clear times in BWL, AQ, and Naxx.
Analyzed Warcraft Logs for the full guild roster and shared feedback to improve builds, rotations, and encounter execution.
Built WoW addons to organize and prep for guild speed runs.
Served as Warrior class lead, giving build, gearing, and encounter-specific feedback to improve raid performance.

2015 – 2017

Built a puzzle game prototype where players cross ice to reach the end of each level while avoiding black ice that makes them lose control.
Built on a personal C++ game engine with DirectX; Ice Maze drove new engine features as they were added.

2017 – 2017

Solo-developed a short single-player horror game set in a power plant at night, built around a light-and-darkness mechanic.
Uploaded to Steam in December 2017 but never released publicly.

2014 – 2017

Built a rendering abstraction over OpenGL and DirectX, Qt tooling, and a Unity-like component system.

2012 – 2013

My first computer game: a 2D hack-and-slash built in JavaScript with Raphaël for graphics, AI, collision, triggers, and animation.
Limited player vision to line of sight, unlike typical top-down 2D games.

2014 – 2016

Designed competitive AI game scenarios and built multiplayer test-match tooling for competitors.

2010 – 2013

Built a Java tool to detect malicious PDFs via syntactic analysis instead of deterministic binary analysis, derived from high school security research.
Identified common syntax patterns across malicious and benign PDF corpora and encoded them as detection rules.
Recognized by the Intel Science Talent Search, Siemens Competition, Intel Excellence in Computer Science, and Silicon Valley Engineering Council from 2010 to 2013.

2015 – 2016

Built a Pebble watch face focused on readable at-a-glance info: battery and charging status, Bluetooth connection, time, and date.
Respects system 12- or 24-hour time preference.