Projects

Designed and implemented runtime reconfiguration and key management for a multi-site intrusion-tolerant distributed system with Dr. Amy Babay.

Rebuilt a community food access map with React, Flask, and PostgreSQL, featuring an admin dashboard and community reporting.

Self-hosted server with nearly 50TB of storage, running containerized services across media, security, observability, and home automation.

Multi-room Spotify streaming system using Snapcast and Raspberry Pis, housed in custom 3D-printed enclosures.

A first-person immersive sim — manipulate hostile Byzantine fault-tolerant networks through message interception, code injection, and physical sabotage.

A top-down video game adaptation of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, built with Unity, Blender, and custom Arduino hardware controllers.

A 2.5D platformer built in Godot for Pitt's 2025 Games for Social Impact Game Jam, with original 3D assets.

A first-person narrative game built in Godot that explores identity, digital consciousness, and moral responsibility through environmental storytelling.

A short first-person experience built in Unity following a stranger who arrives alone in an unfamiliar town.

An ongoing game design journal covering ideation, rapid prototyping, and lessons learned across each project.

An analysis of embedded and emergent storytelling in video games, using Papers, Please as a case study.

An analysis of how digital systems blur identity, erode autonomy, and enforce surveillance-driven control.

How MOUTHWASHING denies player agency, implicating them in cycles of guilt, helplessness, and moral collapse.

How players, rules, and social dynamics shape emergent narratives in the collaborative card game Once Upon a Time.