Computer Engineering student at the University of Waterloo (class of 2028). I like building real-time systems and running them on infrastructure I set up myself.

Previously a software developer at Doctalk (Jan–Apr 2026), where I moved our API and WebSocket services from Cloud Run to Terraform-managed GCE instance groups, and at ccLeaf (summer 2025), building search for a music licensing platform on ElasticSearch and MongoDB.

Projects

• LeetBattle: real-time 1v1 coding battles with ELO matchmaking. Colyseus over WebSockets, self-hosted Judge0 on k3s with custom ARM64 images, Argo CD GitOps, a 6-node Redis cluster, and a Next.js frontend on Lambda + CloudFront via CDK. An OpenAI pipeline writes problems and reference solutions in four languages, and every passing submission must also clear a time-complexity check.
• AbilityEngine: a modular Minecraft plugin framework for Paper 1.21+. Abilities can be written in Java, JavaScript, or YAML.
• Intraday Market Factor Dashboard: Next.js dashboard that pulls intraday OHLC data from Finnhub, runs PCA to find hidden factors, and simulates simple factor-based trading strategies.
• Athar (in progress): a Quran reflection PWA on Next.js and Supabase, with pgvector search over your own notes.

Open source

Fixes merged upstream:

• argocd-image-updater: a data race on the shared Argo CD client (#1831), retries for registry requests throttled with 429 (#1847), SCM API calls that ignored the Argo CD TLS certificate store (#1832), and a racy webhook test (#1830).
• opennextjs-aws: overlapping requests could be handed each other's waitUntil through the Next.js request context.
• ioredis: after a queue flush, exec() put its own error inside that error's previousErrors, which made it circular.
• helm-diff: --reuse-values failed on a release that was not installed yet.
• Minecraft server tooling: Grim anticheat false positives, spark, LuckPerms and AuthMe.

Tools I use most: TypeScript, Java, Python, React/Next.js, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, GCP

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