Bay Area | Tylerd2474@gmail.com | linkedin | Github
San Jose State University | Computer Science — Expected May 2028
Relevant coursework: Advanced C++, Data Structures & Algorithms, Advanced Python
Clubs: Developer's Guild, Competitive Programming Club
Certificate of Achievement, C++ Programming — Dec 2024
Languages: Python, C++, TypeScript, JavaScript, Solidity
Frameworks: Next.js 15, FastAPI, Prisma, NextAuth.js
Databases: PostgreSQL, PostGIS, pgvector
Cloud & Infrastructure: Google Cloud Run
AI Tools: Claude Code, pi, MCP
Competitive Programming Club | Tech Officer — September 2025 – February 2026
- Delivered weekly lectures on algorithms and data structures to club members
- Mentored new students to improve problem-solving skills and contest performance
Shipcaptain | Software Engineering Intern — June 2025 – August 2025
- Built a secure, full-stack admin portal using Next.js 15, TypeScript, Prisma, and PostgreSQL
- Implemented role-based access control, audit logging, and middleware-based route protection
- Integrated NextAuth.js for authentication and password reset workflows with automated email notifications
Serraform Labs | Software Engineering Intern — October 2022 – July 2023
- Built the on-chain smart contract handling user payments via the USDC token, as part of a 7-person team shipping a live Web3 product for a multi-billion dollar crypto project
- Integrated customizable subscription terms, administrative fund oversight, and comprehensive event logging
- 2nd place — UC Berkeley's AI Hackathon 2026 - Won sponsor track for best token compression solution with Accordion
- 1st place — SJSU Admitted Spartan Programming Contest, Apr 2025
- 3rd place — DAHACKS-3.5 with AceAnything, May 2025
- Top 20 on-site — ICPC Regional, Feb 2024 & Nov 2024
Accordion ⭐136 — TypeScript, Tauri, Rust | 🏆 UC Berkeley AI Hackathon 2026 | get-accordion.dev | github
- Intelligent context management tool for AI coding agents
- KV-Cache optimized
- Replaces /compact with reversible, per-block folding and interchangeable context strategies that decides when and how to fold/unfold context between turns
- Used the attention from a 500M parameter model as a proxy to rank the relevance of past context
- Achieved 83.3% task completion vs 33.3% for naive compaction on SlopCodeBench with a constrained 100k-token budget
AfterCart — PostgreSQL, Google Vision API, Cloud Run, Gemini | live | github
- Receipt-to-price-comparison tool: photograph a grocery receipt, get a basket-level comparison across nearby stores in real time
- Ingested 18,649 real price observations across 14,053 unique barcodes and 244 stores via Open Food Facts and live receipt data
- Deployed to production on Google Cloud Run with PostgreSQL + PostGIS + pgvector; OCR via Google Vision API, item matching via Gemini 2.5 Flash
Agent Trials — Python, Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Cloud Run | live
- Live platform for evaluating AI agents through competitive games — purpose-built to stress-test distinct agent capabilities
- Built live Elo ranking and real-time spectator system; platform has logged 403 completed games across 49 unique agents
Automated Game Bot ⭐25 — Python, Computer Vision, Multithreading | github | video
- Built custom object detection models and a multithreaded automation engine for real-time decision-making in a dynamic environment
Automated Trading Bot — Python, Computer Vision, Market Making
- Acted as a market maker in a niche online marketplace, autonomously executing trades with consistent profitability across $840K+ in total volume
- Built a custom detection pipeline and real-time decision engine; tracked 10+ KPIs for performance monitoring and strategy optimization
Blockchain Projects — Solidity, JavaScript
- Built a Uniswap v3 position manager implementing concentrated liquidity optimization and secure OpenZeppelin contracts