CDW's Portfolio

Projects

Here is a collection of projects I have built personally or with small teams of peers. This body of work showcases my competency as a data-driven computer scientist. It highlights my strong work ethic, teamwork skills, technical skills, and my own innate leadership abilities.

Google GenAI Hackathon

I was personally nominated to represent Sogeti in the Google GenAI Hackathon. Our team was tasked with creating an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) of a business application utilizing GCP's GenAI services. We used a webapp frontend plugged into a Python based backend hosted on Google App Engine, and communicated with Google's VertexAI chatbot model via their PaLM2 API. We created a personalized FoodQuest app which would find food options for users using their current location. The FoodQuest app was able to adjust for health conditions or allergies, or even different dietary restrictions. For example you could ask it for food options near you that are both vegan friendly and under 400 calories and it would provide a list of dishes at different restaurants that met the requirement.

Here is a link to our demonstrational video for the project.

OpenCV Puzzle Solver

For my senior design project, our team created a puzzle solver app allowing the user to upload photos of puzzle pieces from a puzzle they select -- so that the puzzle can be automatically solved. Then, using the OpenCV computer vision library in Python, we scanned each piece and defined the size and length of the piece and its edges. Once we had all of the dimensions stored, we used a genetic algorithm to progressively solve the puzzle. We were able to complete large puzzles of up to 4000 pieces without error, depending on the color profile of the puzzle itself.

Here is a link to our GitHub repository for the project. It includes directions explaining how to download and run our application

Linux Programming

Of the courses that I took during my Bachelor's degree. One of the most difficult classes was my Linux Programming course. In this class I did everything from recreating command line utilities from scratch using shell scripting, to socket communication, parallel processing, Operating Systems design, and creating my own version of the linux shell itself.

Here is a link to my GitHub repository containing all of my coursework.

Stenography Project

Another partner and I developed a system for hiding copyright information within artwork images. We used Stenographic techniques to insert the copyright information into the image. This was done via making small encoded alterations to the RGB color values for pixels in one corner of the image. The result is a visually unaltered and unnoticable copyright tag that can be traced back to the original creator!

Here is a link to our GitHub repository for the project.

Stochastic Gradient Descent

Here is an example of my prowess in Machine Learning Algorithms. I used Stochastic Gradient Descent methods for both Linear and Logistic regression approaches of processing the Pima-Indians-Diabetes dataset.

Here is a link to my GitHub repository for the project.