Software Developer · Nova Scotia
Building for the web, the desktop, and the systems underneath. NSCC IT Programming, class of 2026.
— The Stack
— Selected Work
Audited and rebuilt NSCC's eCampus site for performance, accessibility, and indexability.
Diagnosed a Windows driver bottleneck and pushed a single GPU node from ~1.2M to ~6.2M RAC/day.
Documentation infrastructure, dark mode, and contact integration for a client React/TS storefront.
UI overhaul and PDF/Excel export pipelines for a PySide6 desktop support tool.
— Side Projects
A Portal/Aperture Science-themed chat interface running open LLMs through the Hugging Face Inference API. Switches between Llama 3.1, DeepSeek-R1, and GPT-OSS at runtime. Built for INET3075 as an excuse to find out which models actually work on the free tier.
Launch DaveGPT →A gothic browser RPG with turn-based combat, save/load via localStorage, and a dark parchment aesthetic — blackletter typography, blood-red accents, film grain and vignette over everything. Entirely self-contained in one HTML file.
Play in browser →— Writing
Optimized Distributed Computing with Linux and CUDA MPS
How a single message from another volunteer corrected a wrong assumption and pushed my workstation from 1.7M to 6.2M RAC/day on the Einstein@Home gravitational wave search. Diagnoses the Windows display driver scheduling bottleneck, walks through the Linux Mint and CUDA MPS implementation, and documents a 3.5× throughput improvement — with figures, command-by-command setup, and a full performance comparison table.
— Credentials