Applications
Here are the digital stories and experiences I’ve brought to life.
Face-Browser Chrome Extension
A chrome extension that allows users to navigate the web using only face movements as an accessibility feature. The app uses a face-landmark ai model in a TensorFlow backend to achieve the pointer movement.
Was Not The Impostor
Based on the popular game Among Us, I used DNS wildcarding along with other network configurations to create a site where users could generate their own "eject screens". Simply head to [name].wasnottheimpostor.com to generate a new site.
This project statyed on the front page of the webdev subreddit for about a day, and has been one of my highest trafficked sites.
Vocal Codes
An app that allows immobile persons to communicate with morse code using a single input button. This app is Inspired by my uncle, who is now immobile due to an injury. Its features are as follows:
- Users are able to have input with short and long presses, either as yes/no or in morse code, and have their input translated and spoken to others.
- A predictive text engine allows for easier sentence construction.
- The app has adjustable sensitivities so they can be tailored to users with different needs.
- A high-contrast color scheme is utilized for facilitated reading.
Chickpeach
Chickpeach is your one stop meal planning, recipe discovery and grocery-management app. Users are able to:
- Search for recipes and save them to a menu or favorites
- Input custom allergens and dislikes and have those ingredients never show up in search or the menu
- Generate custom shopping lists based on selected menu items
- Adjust meal prepping to accommodate multiple persons, dietary restrictions and popular diets
The app features a clean UI that is WAI-ARIA compliant. Chickpeach is fully responsive and can be taken on the go or browsed as a rich desktop experience.
Web Color Generator
After building a few visual apps, I ran into a consistent issue when generating random colors. There was no quick way to render a list of colors within a certain range. Instead, I often implemented naive solutions that randomly generated web colors, leading to common contrast/visibility issues.
I built this app to generate a list of web friendly colors in either RGB, hex, or HSL based on a line users can draw on a color-wall to ensure color consistency.
Shazamazon
Shazamazon is a full stack item description page modeled after Amazon. It is composed of nine individually deployed micro-services that are stitched together in order to architect scalable components with separation of concerns. My major contributions to this project are as follows:
- Creating the reviews component - a component that has its own front-end, back-end and database to handle review display, review submission, and helpful demarcations. The component also features a profanity filter, is WAI-ARIA compliant for voice-reader access and communicates to other components as reviews are submitted.
- Scaled the Carousel to handle 10 million items and 1000 RPS by implementing load balancing across multiple server instances.
- Created a proxy to stitch all nine components together.
AdVocation
Developed at a diversity hackathon, AdVocation is platform that allows under-represented candidates looking for referrals to find employees looking to refer candidates to their companies. The app features:
- A portal for a company’s employees to find applicants in the general public looking for referrals, including a shortlist functionality for sorting through candidates.
- The ability for employees at a company to post jobs.
- A portal for job seekers to create profiles and look for open jobs where a company’s employees are looking to refer.
