About Me
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Skills
Certifications
AWS Solutions Architect
Education
MSc Computer Science
BSc Computational Social Science
Projects
Ethereum Validator 2022-Present
This has been my longest running continuous project. I run and continue maintain an Ethereum Validator
node, using the Rocketpool protocol, I stake on behalf of customers allowing them to see returns on
their capital while taking a commission.
This project involves renting, managing, and securing a Virtual Private Server from Netcup, as initial
tests showed me that my home internet did not have the required throughput or connectivity required.
Once I had ownership of the server I set up my own SSH keys, 2-factor authentication, and bolted down
the network to ensure no harmful network traffic could reach the server. After this I was able to
remotely set up and maintain the server. I also created custom Grafana dashboards and hooked this up
with prometheus to give me an overview of server performance.
From this project I learned how Linux systems operate and how to communicate efficiently with the server
via CLI. I also learned a lot about network and server security, and blockchain infrastructure. Over the
past 3 years I have maintained over 99% uptime and 95% efficiency in validating transactions on the
Ethereum Network, contributing to the networks overall security.
Home Server 2024 - Present
As someone who has always loved tinkering with and setting up systems I spent a long time wanting
to get a homelab for myself but could never justify it. After I graduated from my Master's I finally
convinced myself to get one. I spent a few weeks researching the best value system I could get to
mess around with and landed on the HP EliteDesk 800 thanks to its modularity, small form factor,
and decent price.
Since then I have setup multiple QOL services on my server. I host a media server, a file server,
PiHole, Photo backups, and a webserver for hosting this site and other various projects I'm running.
This project allowed me to build on the skills I learned from my Ethereum Validator project with less
pressure if I broke something (which I did plenty). This allowed me to mess with various operating
systems such as Proxmox and various flavours of Linux, until I landed on Ubuntu for ease.
Chess Bot Site 2025
I've always been fascinated by Chess and specifically chess programming. A quick look on my Github
shows a multitude of failed chess programming projects. That is why I am so proud of this project
in particular. This project is still under development as I have a few features I want to add (and
bugs I want to remove), and the frontend design of the project needs a lot of work.
The outcome of this project is a chess site containing a bot which is extremely difficult to beat
even on lower difficulty settings. The website allows for undoing moves, restarting, changing bot
difficulty and switching sides mid-game. I have yet to beat the bot myself.
This project helped me deepen my understanding of chess programming, and I got to utilize a decent
bit of JavaScript.
ELQ - Distributed Queue System (Microsoft) 2024
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Github Repo
IP Switch Protocol Simulator in Java 2023
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Github Repo
Sentiment Analysis: Deprivation and Race in Dublin 2022
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Github Repo