Roots, Stems and Leaves

60-minute invited talk given at West Valley College, November 6th, 2020 in 2020 i was invited to give a talk as a part of West Valley College's Roots to STEM speaker series, showcasing to students the breadth and diversity of paths one can take under the umbrella of a "STEM career". my talk focused on my career pivot from full time software engineer to educator, and the process by which i went about navigating that challenge.
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Ethical Storyboarding for Machine Learning

Article published in Towards Data Science, May 10th, 2019 when i was hired to co-teach a machine learning bootcamp with Google's education outreach team, i insisted on including a strong and persistent ethical component in our lessons, and at the end of the semester i published a study in the online magazine Towards Data Science detailing the techniques we explored throughout the course's 10 week duration.
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Fantastic Bits and Where to Find Them

75-minute invited talk given at Mills College, October 10th, 2019 in 2019 i was invited to give a guest lecture for Mills College's course on advanced computer architecture, CS111. rather than focusing on a technical topic, i put together a survey talk demonstrating the numerous ways that my formal training as an electrical engineer has taught me lessons that extend far beyond the technical realm and are relevant in my daily life.
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Computer Graphics (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Matrix)

50-minute talk given at Mills College, March 9th, 2017 as a part of my teaching interview for an adjunct professor position at Mills College, i put together a talk introducing students to the field of computer graphics. it was inteded to motivate their interest in the subject and give them concrete skills they could take away from the talk, assuming they had only light experience with CS and possibly none with college-level math
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Tasty Static

Video game released in August 2009 when i was a teenager i built a video game inspired by one of my favorite classic MS-DOS games, to teach myself 3D graphics programming. the resulting ended up getting downloaded over 160,000 times and gaining a tiny lil fan following that exists to this day. the source code is a horrifying mountain of spaghetti code written by an ambitious and caffeine-addled 18-year-old version of me, but the end result is still something i'm proud of
game website

Expo 2D Context

Software library released on November 27th 2018 i was contracted by Expo, a company specializing in tools to build mobile apps, to produce a complete implementation of the Canvas 2D Context, a framework used universally by web browsers to let websites draw complex 2D images and graphics. the resulting project was a library written in pure javascript that implemented the whole of the API from scratch, and Expo was gracious enough to release it as an open source project.
press statement github repo

Network.framework for macOS and iOS

Operating system component released in 2018 during my time at apple, i was a major contributor to their 'network.framework' project, a reimagining of how the very brainstem of our computers connect to and use the internet. in particular, i was responsible for making sure the changes in the OS kernel played nice with the classic BSD networking stack. imagine a mediator whose job was to get benedict cumberbatch's sherlock and inspector lestrade to work smoothly together. that's what i did. if you are using a macbook or an iphone, my code is busily keeping the peace right now ;)
wwdc announcement video

Python Gameboy Emulator

Ongoing project one frosty december evening i got bored waiting around in an airport terminal and started writing a gameboy emulator (a program for your computer that lets you play oldschool gameboy games) in python. a few years out it's still my favorite thing to tinker with in my spare time, and it can play (...several) games at (......close to) full speed! emulator development is one of the most fun hobbies i've stumbled across and perfectly blends my love of computer architecture, python, and retro games. if you're interested in doing something like this yourself, talk to me ;) !!!
github repo