Hey, I'm Joey
I'm studying computer science with a current obsession for design patterns, natural language processing, and 2000's era web design. While my primary focus is on software engineering, I believe computer science goes beyond just technology; it refines how we think, and allows us to understand the systems the real world is built upon.
In the past, I've made some apps, participated in (and won) a few hackathons and competitions, composed an album, and traveled the continent in a beat-up van. As of lately, my focus is full speed ahead in becoming the best software engineer I can be. Right now, that means building my career and studying computer science University of Washington.
Outside of the tech realm, I'm an ardent believer in lifelong learning and personal growth. Networking with like-minded individuals, sharing knowledge, and fostering collaboration is at the heart of my professional ethos. Let's connect and explore the endless possibilities the digital world has to offer!
Clearvote is a web app that enables the public stay informed during off-cycle elections and better understand the candidates running in them. To accomplish this, we first have to look up when elections take place and what districts are up for election. We do this by using geodata to lookup voting precincts. Then we have to find the candidate information on the web and engineer a prompt to feed into a LLM. What the LLM gives us is raw data we can use to rank and rate the political sentiments of candidates participating in the election, which we then show to the user in a fast and easy to understand way.
I was the lead developer for the application AutoDubbs, an application that translates audio in videofiles from one language to another using a model of the person's voice. Once we had a working prototype, our team entered into the Dempsey Startup Competition at the University of Washington. In doing so, we had the opportunity to over 200 industry judges in person as one of the top 32 teams from a pool of over 100 participants. Part of making it this far in the competition required Writing an 8-page business proposal, UML diagrams, and the architectural design of the code base, all of which are included in the github repo here
In my first quarter as a transfer student at the University of Washington, I was most excited about working on projects with other people. DubHacks gave me that oppotunity in October of 2022, where me and 3 other transfer students worked as a team to create IllustrAItor, an application that illustrates long passages of text with Stable Diffusion's Image Generation and prompt engineering. I led coding decisions, proof-of-concept, application prompts, the presentation script, and engagement with the judges. By the end of the competition, we ranked among the top 9 teams out of 455 participants and presented to a panel of six judges.
I've used technology like Firebase, Google Cloud Run, Docker, Flask, React, .NET Core, Angular, Selenium, Bootstrap, Microsoft Azure, Figma, GNU Debugger (x86-64), Node, TypeScript, JQuery, and SQL in the past.
I'm also familiar with the Scaled Agile Framework, Product Management Tools like Jira and Asana, Design Patterns, Managerial Accounting, Adobe After Effects, Logic Pro X, Ableton Live 9 and Final Cut Pro (I double as a video editor 🙂)
If you're interested in learning more about what I can do for your business, check out my CV:
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