Project Vesper Live Demo Self-built productivity system (2025 - Present)

Screenshot of Project Vesper dashboard

A productivity system I'm building to track tasks, habits, and inventory. Designed to surface insights and minimize time waste rather than just checking boxes off lists.

Built as a long-term project I'll actually use, prioritizing sturdy architecture over quick feature adds.

  • Flask + PostgreSQL with SQLAlchemy
  • Docker deployment with CI/CD pipeline on VPS
  • Unit tested with Pytest to maintain reliability as it grows
  • Real-time UI updates with a modern JS frontend
  • Nginx reverse proxy with SSL for production demo

Learning focus: Database schema design, API patterns, and understanding how real software complexity is handled.

SnakeByte Live Demo Snake game written in x86 assembly (2023)

SnakeByte gameplay

Built to understand low-level systems programming. Uses Ncurses for terminal display.

  • Dynamic memory management for growing snake segments
  • Portal teleportation system with bi-directional warping
  • Custom level loader with file parsing
  • Collision detection (walls, self, boundaries, food)
  • Manual 2D coordinate-to-1D memory addressing
  • Hard mode with dynamic speed scaling

Learning focus: Stack/heap management, pointer arithmetic, circular buffers, and thinking at the instruction level - understanding where each layer (registers, memory, stack) starts and ends.

Experience

  • Casey's General Store (2020 - 2021)
    Demonstrated reliability, time management, and adaptibility
  • Coffee Cup Travel Plaza (2017 - 2020)
    Handled fast-paced customer-facing environments.

Education & Certifications

  • B.S., Computer Science
    Dakota State University • May 2024
    Dean's List Fall 2022 • Focus: Parallel Computing, Web Dev, Algorithms
  • German Certificate (C1)
    Goethe Institute • Professional Working Proficiency (2024)