The best way to predict the future is to create it
Born in Oklahoma, raised in Colombo and living in Melbourne, I am a young developer/photographer who loves to capture the art of nature by day, and code the next big thing at 2 o'clock in the morning.
I
believe every person
has a form of creativity within themselves, the trick is to just find out how they can express it.
Ever
since the age of 13, I've
found my outlet to be the logistical thinking of code, and the art of photography. Throughout my 4
years
(and growing!) of
experience, I've had my fair share of failure, agony and frustration. Maybe a missed opportunity or
a
failed ambition just to name a few.
But through pure passion and the love of my craft, I've used these experiences to grow as a person.
I have absolutely no clue where I'll be in another 5 or 10 years, but I'm excited.
The future is in the making,
are you ready?
50Raw is an education website aiming to revolutionise how high school students in
Victoria learn online, bringing beautiful, modern technology into the
industry.
At this position I am the founding developer of 50raw's website and product,
building its entirety from the ground up.
For my final development project in high-school, we were required to
orchestrate
a piece of software for a business within a few months.
Knowing the potential this opportunity provided, I decided to aim big, and
put
myself into the deep-end and develop a complex 'monitor' tracking software
for
the reputable company, BGIS,
allowing managers to understand how their differing types of monitors are
being
utilised within their workplace.
Despite these complexities which forced me to learn entirely new
technologies
within the span of weeks, I managed to pull it off, developing WUAT, a panel
and
complimentary employee client suite
which tracks and reports on the monitor usage of employees within different
floors and spaces of the workplace.
I am incredibly grateful for the members of BGIS who were willing to take me
in
and give me a chance to prove myself, despite still being in high-school.
I've
learnt
an incredible amount about development for larger organisations which
includes
security concerns, agile software development and so much more. I hope WUAT
continues to serve them for more years to come.
Classic Bites was a client who requested a logo from our (now closed) Magnus Designs service. The product was the above logo.
Different Craft was one of my first few clients who requested me to develop for them several custom 'enchantments' for their game server on top of a few fixer menus.
PokéFind was one of my most dedicated and most influential clients. I began in
2017
and have worked with them for almost 2 years.
I've helped bring to market several network
features for their game server
including an 'auction house' while also creating for them a large scale game
dubbed
PokéFactions. It has taken the majority of
my time at PokéFind and has a lot planned for its future.
Before taking on this position, I had little experience with working in teams
and
building large scale software.
Working with PokéFind has allowed me to learn key project management and
collaboration skills when working on scalable software.
You can read more about this project on my LinkedIn.
Project Top Down was one of my very first projects I undertook with some friends when I was starting out with game development. With almost a year of devlopment, Project Top Down was an interactive multiplayer 2D top down shooter which ran on desktop and mobile. After the project was abandoned due to the disruption of Box Cubed (the name of our team at the time), it still holds a special place in my heart. It taught me quite a lot through its unsolvable and frustrating problems it brought to our team.
Enfinity was also another special project I undertook myself. It was the first game I attempted to make in a 3D environment. While it hosted several challenges and headaches, it forecast several mathematical concepts I was still to learn in my formal education such as Matrices and their respective operations. While it was quite hacky, it helped build the foundations of my programming knowledge today.
Web Development was quite new to me when I decided to go for a raw html website for my school project, but I didn't let that fact stop me. While this wasn't my first website project, it had several new concepts I never grasped my head around prior such as modals and bootstrap (I have been using w3, a much easier framework for building websites). While my teammates worked on styling, I ensured to develop a color scheme and format that would both be appealing and easy to digest for the viewer. While I may change a few things such as the margins or size of the text, I was proud of my ability to improvise for this project. As you can see, I've come a long way from this project.
Magnus Designs was one of my hardest failures. After an idea turned into a dream, my team aspired to be professional designers, and this was our website. With marketing being expensive for a bunch of young students and a disaster for our first client, it never turned out to be. However, this project forced me to learn web design on a scale I never have while also opening me to several other important concepts such as SEO. Before Magnus, I never had the intention to turn web into one of my key skills, but now, I've never been more grateful for the opportunity Magnus Designs gave us.
Flappy Bird was my first taste into machine learning and its capability. While it may seem like a another buzzword to many people, machine learning has great applications and use cases for a plethora of projects, the only question now is how. Inspired by the Coding Train, an educational content creator, Flappy Bird Machine learning gave me the push I needed to pursue machine learning further. Maybe you'll see more projects like this one here some day...
This project was one of my the JS projects I've made. After seeing the power of JS through several content creators, I was pushed to try use some of my early math concepts (the unit circle in this example) to test out my knowledge. It makes me wonder if mathematics got me interested in programming or vice versa.
Over one weekend, being a VCE student, I was already making preparations for
my
finals by entering
my exam times into my calendar. After about 3 exams in, I got bored, and
wondered how cool
it would be if an application existed that did this laborious task for you.
So,
instead of spending
10 minutes entering my exams into my calendar, I spent 10 hours creating
this
application.
Inefficient? Yes
Fun? Definitely.
The project put my web scraping skills to the test, forcing me to find a way
to
scrape all the exam data
from the official VCAA site to a file which I could use to create calendar
files
with.
The website was received well by my peers and saved a few minutes from their
day.
Hopefully all those minutes collectively add up to 10 hours.
