Preferred contact method is jhawes@ucsc.edu

LinkedIn Link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wyatt-hawes/

Portfolio Link: https://wyatt-hawes.github.io/Portfolio/interesting_projects

Itch.io     Link: https://wyatt-hawes.itch.io/

1. Visual Taskboard

• Created since myself and my co-workers were unhappy with our current issue tracking system and its lack of integration with our ticketing system
• Took initiative to start this project on my own from scratch to increase the work experience (and efficiency!) of the entire office.
• A visual taskboard (Similar to Trello) that integrates with the ServiceNow ticketing API
• Visualizes Client Updated and Stale tickets while allowing custom organization, sorting, and automation.
• Built with Node.js, React, and Express.

2. Distributed System in Go / Golang (Repository Coming Soon)

• A Replicated Key-Value Store Distributed System
• Made in Go
• Replicates data to all available replicas in the system, automatically detects downed replicas (and notifies all other replicas of this info)
• Enforces Causal Consistency through the use of Causal Meta-data
• Test suite to allow confidence in functionality

3. Multi-Threaded HTTP Server in C (Repository Coming Soon)

• Uses only system calls, does NOT use the stdio library (No fopen, read, etc.) as I wanted to understand the process of what really goes into an HTTP server
• Simple server that stores allows files to be stored and retrieved from the server

4. SlugMart {Private repository available upon request}

• Full-stack E-commerce app
• Complete with checkout, administration websites, Vendor API's, Vendor Websites, Checkout/Stripe Integration
• Technologies & Ideas: React, Tailwind, GraphQL, Express, AWS, RESTful API, Docker, Microservices, & More!

5. Three Bulky Bears {Private repository available upon request}

• A platformer game made as a group of ~20
• Published on Steam, created in Unity
• Contributed as a Programmer (Gameplay programmer, UI Programmer, & Automatic analytic collection)
• Collaborated with Designers, Investors, Managers, & Artists

7. Facial-Recognition-TicTacToe

• Trained a neural network based on a Kaggle dataset.
• User plays TicTacToe by using their facial expression to dictate moves.
• Employs convolution layers, max-pooling layers, dense layers, dropout layers, and data augmentation to minimize overfitting to the relatively small data set.
• Done in Python

10. Time-Defender

• Created in JavaScript using the Phaser library
• Made with 2 other team members with varying levels of programming and artistic experience.
• Includes procedurally generated video and audio
• Browser downloads less than 1MB in order to play the game
• Managed a production timeline which included storyboarding, prototyping, task delegation, and weekly progress reports.

C

• Hash Table | C
• Reader Writer Lock | C
• Concurrent Queue | C
• Bloom Filter | C
• Bit Vector | C
• Doubly Linked List | C
• Node | C
• Priority Queue | C
• Stack | C
• Set | C
• Sparse Matrix | C
• Graph | C

C++

• Reader Writer Mutex | C++
• Filter & Bakery Algorithm Mutex | C++
• Concurrent Queue | C++
• Barrier (Sense Reversal) | C++
• Big Integer | C++
• List | C++
• Binary Search Tree Dictionary | C++
• Red Black Tree Dictionary | C++

• Bubble Sort | C

• Heap Sort | C

• Quick Sort | C

• Shell Sort | C

• RSA Encryption/Decryption | C

• Huffman Encoding | C

• DFS | C

• BFS | C

• Bi-Directional A* | Python

• Monte-Carlo Tree Search | C++ & Python