alfienity and beyond

Culdevate | React, Redux, Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB/DynamoDB | 7/17 - Present | Development Phase

• Entrepreneurial idea - "Cultivate better developers" - with UI/frontend currently being designed by Regine Deguzman
• Development repo: culdevate-dev; collaborating on Slack and Trello

ZMB | MongoDB, Express.js, AngularJS, Node.js, D3.js | 11/16 - Present | Development Phase

• Zeta Mu Beta prototype deployed on Heroku with mLab backend
• Mean stack web application to showcase general information about Zeta Mu Beta with family tree visualizations using D3.js

Pogs | MongoDB, Express.js, AngularJS, Node.js | 11/16 - Present | Development Phase

• Pogs V1 deployed on Heroku with mLab backend
• Virtual refrigerator of shared sticky notes to schedule and archive the plans of Pedong (Alfred) or Gingin (Regine)

Portfelo | MongoDB, Express.js, AngularJS, Node.js | 10/16 - Present | Concept Phase

• Incremental prototype of a custom photo portfolio designed to be social in connecting with your portfelo peers - UI/frontend currently being redesigned by Regine Deguzman before prototype development
• Pre-prototype from when I started to explore the full stack web development cosmos

CSM117: Computer Networks: Physical Layer | S17

• Developed an Android Bruinfo app to provide an automatically updating feed of Google Search results related to all the locations around the user
• Utilized jsoup to parse HTML of Google Search results and update the Bruinfo feed, Google Places API to retrieve locations around user's coordinates, and Google Maps API to display an updating map relating to the user's location

CS130: Software Engineering | W17

• Boost webserver implemented using C++11, GTest unit testing, GCov test coverage, Bash/Python integration testing, Travis-CI for continuous integration, and Nginx-inspired parsing of config files - modeling the HTTP Restful API; Dockerized and pushed to an AWS instance for demo
• Features: multithreading, Lua scripting, HTTPS support for reverse proxy, markdown rendering, requests such as static file serving, echoing, and status reports

CS170A: Mathematical Modeling and Methods for Computer Science | F16

• Matlab projects using Jupyter Notebooks (IPython) applying linear matrix algebra such as SVD, PCA, Fourier Transform, Ridge Regression/Least Squares, and Chi-Squared Tests i.e. photoshop detector, analyzing music notes, altering RGB values

CS 145: Introduction to Data Mining | F16

• FPTree and Pairwise Item Lift optimization using Java
• Exposed to concepts related to association rule/frequent pattern mining (apriori, DIC, FP Growth), sequential pattern mining (PrefixScan, Approximate Match), unsupervised learning/clustering (K-Means, K-Medoid/PAM, Birch, DBScan, Optics), supervised learning/classification (Decision Tree Induction, Bayesian Classification, SVM, CBA), tree mining (TreeMiner), graph mining (FSG, gSpan, FFSM), Bayesian Networks

CS M152A: Digital Design Lab | W16

• Utilized Verilog to design a stopwatch and bop-it game on an FPGA

CS174A: Introduction to Computer Graphics | S15

• Collaborated with team members to create a bowling arcade game in the browser with keyboard controls and different modes using WebGL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS

CS111: Operating Systems Principles | W15

• Developed a profiling shell with C to run bash commands by tokenizing, parsing, and executing user input

CS 143: Database Systems | F15

• Movie database website using PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS; database running on Linux Apache server in virtual machine, Selenium tests
• Implemented B+ tree in C++ and covered RDBMS/SQL

CS 118: Computer Network Fundamentals | F15

• Modeled TCP and UDP file transfer using socket programming, learned about HTTP and rest of the network layers

CS 32: Introduction to Computer Science II | W14

• Developed Bug Blast arcade game using C++ and using STL data structures such as a queue with breadth-first search to have simple AI following the player as one attempts to beat each level
• Dived into object-oriented principles and exposed to data structures such as linked lists, maps, sets, hashtables, dynamic arrays, stacks, queues, etc.

Leisure

• Music: Self-taught to play acoustic guitar since 8th grade
• Avid Gamer: Anime, Online Gaming (Xbox Live - Halo, LoL eSports, CSGO, MMORPGs)
• Sports: Basketball - Lakers, Tennis - Rafael Nadal
• Recently Traveled Countries: Caribbean Islands, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Canada, UK, France, Netherlands, Greece, Spain, Sweden, Italy

Self-Study

• Podcasts: Syntax.,ShopTalk, Software Engineer Daily, Software Engineering Radio, Programming Throwdown, Developer Tea, Freakonomics, Radiolab
• Reading List: JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford, HTML & CSS: Design and Build Web Sites by Jon Duckett, JavaScript and jQuery: Interactive Front-end Web Development by Jon Duckett, Eloquent JavaScript by Marijn Haverbeke, You Don't Know JS Series by Kyle Simpson (Up & Going, this & Object Prototypes, Types & Grammar, Async & Performance, ES6 & Beyond), Agile Project Management for Dummies by Mark C. Layton, Programming JavaScript Applications by Eric Elliott, Learning JavaScript Design Patterns by Addy Osmani