
The Legend of Shoo
itch.io (opens in a new tab)What started as my ICS4U project became the most popular game at school. People reached out to test new versions, and even the principal thought I should put it on the App Store!
The idea of doing a project is quite fascinating in itself. For some, it’s simply a bullet point on a résumé. For others, it’s just about building. For me, it’s always been about leaving an impact. One of the most beautiful feelings in the world is seeing people use and love what you’ve built. Each project is like a baby, and I tend to be a proud father.

What started as my ICS4U project became the most popular game at school. People reached out to test new versions, and even the principal thought I should put it on the App Store!

When we wrote our paper, we decided not to include pseudocode but still needed a clear visualization for the journal version. That’s how I came up with this.

After placing eighth at CCO and missing out on IOI, I felt retired from competitive programming. But I didn’t want to leave without a trace, so I spent over a year helping put together one of the most popular Codeforces rounds ever.

Although OpenBy was a hackathon project, the best part was building it with friends. Maybe in another lifetime I’d turn it into a startup and work on it full time.

Built for UofTHacks 13, Remy gave me the chance to meet and collaborate with amazing people while building something that pushed my technical boundaries. We didn’t win the hackathon, but that was never the goal :)

A weekly trivia platform for the Conrad Grebel community. What started as a joke ran for over eight months with 100+ active users and led to me receiving the Harms Penner Leadership Award.

Another bright idea of mine that didn’t thrive. Duolingo for prompt engineering, built in London, Ontario, for HackWestern. They have an annoyingly large campus.

We made our own take on GPT before OpenAI was famous. A question-answering model trained on large datasets was my first venture into machine learning. There are dozens of things I’d do differently if I could go back, but the lessons stay with me.

During the pandemic, the gang and I were professional Krunker players, and I built this map (with tears) over the summer.
“What I cannot create, I do not understand.”Richard Feynman · Final Caltech blackboard