Turning curiosity into code

• Built and maintain a portfolio of open–source interactive simulations and tools (see Selected Projects below) plus the shared design system and component library used across all of them — vanilla JavaScript, no frameworks, no build pipeline, no transpiler.
• Architected the SSR layer on Cloudflare Workers + Assets: per–route HTMLRewriter injection, edge–rendered markdown, structured data, per–route security headers, and Analytics Engine logging.
• Maintains the entire stack solo, infrastructure to typography, in collaboration with Claude.

• Led rewrite and modernization of Catppuccin's SDDM display manager theme in QtQuick.
• Implemented dynamic accent color and per–user icon integration.
• Automated theme generation across the four Catppuccin flavors to streamline maintenance.
• Designed vector backgrounds and user iconography.

• Activation steering and trait monitoring for HuggingFace transformers — extracts contrastive steering vectors and adds them to hidden states at generation time, no fine–tuning required.
• Three interfaces: a terminal UI with live alpha knobs and probe sparklines, an HTTP server speaking both OpenAI /v1/* and Ollama /api/* wire formats on the same port, and a Python API for scripted experiments.
• Ships 21 pre–built probes scoring affect, epistemic stance, register, and alignment in–flight; tested on Qwen, Gemma, Ministral, gpt–oss, Llama, and GLM.
• Implements the contrastive–PCA reading procedure from Zou et al. (2023); published to PyPI under AGPL–3.0 with CI, type checking, and llama.cpp GGUF interchange.

• Real–time N–body simulator running on WebGPU compute shaders, modeling 11 force types — Newtonian gravity, gravitomagnetism, Coulomb, Lorentz, Yukawa, Higgs and axion field couplings, Hubble expansion, 1PN general–relativistic corrections, spin–orbit, and radiation reaction.
• Barnes–Hut tree acceleration for O(N log N) scaling; Boris integrator preserving phase–space volume.
• Black–hole mode with Kerr–Newman event horizons, Hawking radiation, Schwinger pair–production discharge, and superradiant axion clouds. Nineteen curated presets demonstrate Keplerian orbits, Rutherford scattering, Higgs wells, gravitational–wave inspiral, and more.

• Interactive biochemistry simulator covering twelve metabolic pathways — glycolysis, gluconeogenesis, PPP, Krebs, beta–oxidation, fatty acid synthesis, the Calvin cycle, the light reactions, fermentation, the urea cycle, and amino acid catabolism — connected through shared metabolite pools.
• 14–complex electron transport chain with proton motive force, oxidative phosphorylation, uncoupling, leak, and reactive oxygen species generation; allosteric regulation gates every reaction (PFK, PDH, ICDH).
• Six organism presets including a cancer–cell preset that demonstrates the Warburg effect.

• Derivatives pricing simulator combining Heston stochastic volatility and Merton jump diffusion with a Vasicek mean–reverting interest rate. American options priced via 128–step Cox–Ross–Rubinstein binomial tree with term–structure volatility, moneyness skew, and discrete dividends.
• 25–strike options chain with real–time Greeks, multi–leg strategy builder (spreads, straddles, condors, butterflies), payoff diagrams, and portfolio–level margin tracking.
• Narrative event engine with 400+ curated scenarios — earnings, monetary policy, geopolitics, sector rotation, technical signals, black swans — chained via a Poisson scheduler with trait–aware likelihood weighting.

• Interactive gerrymandering simulator on a procedural hex–tile electorate. Players paint districts and evaluate them against six fairness metrics: efficiency gap, partisan symmetry, competitive–district count, Polsby–Popper compactness, contiguity, and majority–minority districts.
• Automated modes include pack–and–crack and a simulated–annealing fair–draw optimizer; Monte Carlo election stress tests run thousands of simulated elections with turnout noise to evaluate map robustness.
• Procedural maps generated via seeded Perlin noise with configurable urban clustering and minority density, reproducible by URL hash.

• Browser–based reader for sixteen sacred texts spanning Christian, Islamic, LDS, Confucian, Taoist, Shinto, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Finnish, and Norse traditions — ~50 MB of static JSON, loaded on demand per chapter.
• Full–text search across all sixteen works, TF–IDF concordance for related passage discovery, verse–linked notes, text–to–speech, and deep linking to any verse via URL.
• Edge–SSR'd verse content with per–chapter Chapter JSON–LD and per–verse Quotation structured data so the corpus is crawlable without JavaScript execution.

B.S. in Mathematics · GPA 3.75 · GRE 335 (170Q, 165V)

Summa Cum Laude · GPA 4.50