Swipester (Code)

Worked on a team with the goal of designing an app where users can select and trade stocks
Designed an interface using React Native to allow users to swipe through stocks to decide whether to buy or short them
Used the IEXCloud REST API to pull data and build a profile for each individual stock
Built a cache for IEXCloud data using Firebase Cloud Functions (Node.js) and Firestore, reducing the number of IEXCloud API calls by approximately 95%

Triviatastic (Code)

Built a basic trivia website using HTML, PHP, and MySQL featuring questions about The Office
Implemented and used the ELO rating algorithm to rate questions and compare user performance, adjusting for the difficulty of each question
Built a pin-based authentication system so that users could create accounts and log in as quickly as possible
Designed the interface with ease-of-use in mind, resulting in over 20,000 page-views before the website was taken offline

Engineered a system using a Raspberry Pi with Node.js and a Solenoid valve that allows the owner of a chicken coop to open and close a valve through text in order to fill a water tank
Leveraged the Twilio API to send and receive text messages from the Raspberry Pi
Designed an electrical circuit to connect all the components together using the GPIO pins from the Raspberry Pi and a relay