I write software that has to think fast.

Computer Science and Mathematics student at Michigan State University and lead software developer at North Peak Leads. I build chess engines, a raycasting 3D renderer in C++, and control code for competition robots.

Play my chess engine GitHub

Knight on e4 0x0000284400442800 Select any square. Each lit cell is a 1 bit in the 64-bit integer my engine uses for move generation.

Projects

Chess engine

A chess GUI and engine I designed and wrote from scratch in Python. It handles every move in the standard rule book and plays at about 1500 Elo at its maximum depth of 5. I rewrote the engine in C++ using bitboards to search several plies deeper in the same time.

Alpha-beta pruning and quiescence search
Roughly 1500 Elo at maximum depth 5
Bitboard move generation, verified with perft
UCI protocol, playable here in the browser via WebAssembly
wxWidgets desktop GUI with a background search thread

Play it Source code

3D renderer

A raycasting engine in the style of DOOM and Wolfenstein 3D. It walks a 2D grid map to find the distance from the camera to each wall and projects the result onto the screen, running at 2000+ frames per second on low-end hardware.

C++
FRC Team 3357 robot software

Lead programmer for a top-100 FIRST Robotics Competition team: object-oriented C++ that runs the robot both autonomously and under driver control.

C++, object-oriented design, Git

Experience

July 2026 – present: Lead Software Developer, North Peak Leads, Grand Rapids, MI. Built a client intake website that gathers information to generate quotes and follow-ups, backed by a SQL database I built from scratch to track clients, appointments, and other key records.
May 2022 – Aug 2024: Lead Programmer, FRC Team 3357, Grand Rapids, MI. Led the team's programming to multiple world championship wins, taught new students C++ and our problem-solving process, and used Git so several students could work on the codebase at once.

Skills

Python, C++, Java, C, SQL, Git, wxWidgets, Visual Paradigm, Unix/Linux, UML design, codebase management

Education

Expected May 2028: B.S. Computer Science and B.A. Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

Contact

I'm looking for software engineering internships. The fastest way to reach me is email.

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