Hello! I'm Chris, a Site Reliability & Software Engineer
Here are some of my projects
Projects
D20Kit
Description
D20Kit is the extension of Synk from a singular project to a platform of tools that allow DMs and players run their game anywhere.
Highlights
- Synk: Realtime Audio Replication
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Synk
Description
Synk is a web project to solve the problem of running a D&D campaign and having no way to set the mood with music. Synk sets out to solve the problem by relaying the sounds the DM plays (and mixing) to the players in realtime.
Highlights
- Realtime Audio Mixing
- FeathersJS Backend
- Redux
- Angular 2 Frontend
Feathers-Couchbase (Open Source)
Description
Feathers-couchbase is actually an adapter written for Synk open sourced. It implementes the full FeathersJS common database API as well as a partial N1QL QueryBuilder.
Highlights
- Implements common Database and Query API
- Partial N1QL QueryBuilder
- 100% Tested
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- Announcement
Yadda HIPAA Compliant Secret Store (Open Source)
Description
Yadda is an open source deployment tool for Amazon ECS. This extension to the yadda ecosystem allows all projects using yadda to get AWS KMS encrypted (HIPAA compliant) secrets for free.
Highlights
- Uses DynamoDB as a credential store (Credstash)
- Fully HIPAA compliant
- Container safe, takes best security practices to avoid envrionment scraping
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QR Reporter
Description
The QR reporter was developed to solve the problem with broken lab computers going unreported for extended periods of time. Instead of a patron finding their way to a staff desk to report they just scan a code on the computer! It is currently in use by the UMBC Library.
Highlights
- QR Scanning
- Administration Panel
- Full Access Control List
- Shibboleth Single Sign On integration
Puppeteer
Description
Puppeteer is a multi-game stat, inventory, and stamina tracker. As you play your tabletop game all the players share the live data without having to use pen and paper.
Highlights
- Realtime data tracking
- Realtime puppet animation (for RP) [Beta]
- Heavy-use of Angular, Laravel, and Node
MoarDammit
Description
MoarDammit is a SWF/MP4/WEBM gallery of short (<1 min) clips used to give the quick laugh. MoarDammit has been under development for a few years mainly to practice with NestJS and AngularJS.
Highlights
- Angular Frontend
- Almost endless entertainment
- Personal favorite tracking
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Vanity URL's
- Read about the v4 release (NEW 2021)
BlocksEngine 2
Description
Closed source project which leverages BabylonJS to build a 3D game engine with hooks into Angular.
Highlights
- Realtime Graphics
- Fully Typescript
BlocksEngine
Description
A little fun open source project trying to get a generalized Typescript game Engine that works with 2D as well as 3D rendering. A big WIP
Highlights
- Realtime Graphics
- 100% selfwritten component game engine
- Fully Typescript
- Source
GetBlocks
Description
A simple little game that allows you, the player, to move around the board collecting blocks over time making interesting designs. The game gets harder the more you play as the board fills up with deadly blue tiles. (Not built with BlocksEngine)
Highlights
- Realtime Graphics
- 100% selfwritten game
- Time killer
- Play?
iTracker
Description
The iTracker project is to increase general student involvement with the SGA. It aggregates information from their backend project service Basecamp and allows students to interact and have the opportunity to jump into projects.
Highlights
- Basecamp 3 API Integration
- Laravel Backend
- Angular 1 Frontend
- Aggressive cache strategy
Yelpy Weather
Description
Yelpy weather is a paper to answer the question, does the weather affect the ratings of yelp reviews? The project is built from the ground up using Hadoop technologies.
Highlights
- HDFS
- MapReduce and PIG
- Spark
- Redis (For cached results)
Library Inventory
Description
The inventory project was designed to replace OCS Inventory by simplifying the setup from the administrator side but give much more power to search the data given.
Highlights
- Lumen (API)
- Laravel (Web front-end)
- C++ (Mac & PC client)
- MongoDB, MySQL, Node, and Redis
- Python (Simulated demo client)
- Simulated Computer in Python
CritiqueMe
Description
CritiqueMe was a quick week project to alleviate the problems of youtubers posting a video to get a critique but never leaving any critiques themselves. This site solves that by forcing the channel itself to have a comment sponsored by it
Highlights
- Video Showcasing
- Youtube v3 Data API
- Interactive critiquing process
Want to find live demos of these projects? Head over to my project page
Micro Projects
Open Source Contributions
Discord Music Bot
FeathersJS Framework
NestJS Framework
Google Cloud Bigtable NodeJS Library
SaltyBet Bot
Technical Skills
Languages: Typescript, Javascript, Python, PHP, HTML, CSS, C/C++, Java, C#, PIG Latin (Apache), DHTML, XML, Haskell
Frameworks: NestJS, FeathersJS, Laravel, Angular, AngularJS, Redux, jQuery, Bootstrap, Material, GraphQL
Designing: Designing user interfaces, logos, reports, modeling databases relational and nosql, normalization, large-scale system design (3m users), reading data models, designing server-client API structure and communication, realtime systems, RESTful routing, gRPC routing.
Databases: ArangoDB, MySql/MariaDB, PostgresSQL, Couchbase, Redis, MongoDB, Google Datastore/Firebase, NeDB, SQLite, Google Bigtable, HBase, Accumulo, Cassandra. Experience with both SQL & NoSQL databases.
Servers and Operating Systems: Linux, Debian, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, Istio, Envoy, CentOS, Ubuntu, Docker, Vagrant, AWS, Google Cloud, Windows Server, Hyper-V, Virtual Box, LAMP, LEMP, MEAN, Continuous Integration, Hadoop Clusters, Teamcity.
Networking: TCP/IP, ISO/OSI, Ethernet, VPN, vLAN, Trunking, STP
Game Development: Unreal Engine 4, Unreal Dev Kit, Cryengine 3&5, Crude Self-made JS engine (BlocksEngine 1 & 2), BabylonJS, Howler.js