Neal Beeken

Assisted in creating coding assignment documentation and regression unit tests for students. Led a team of Teaching Assistants by supervising the development of homework assignments. Wrote automated grading tools for coding assignments.

Repaired and maintained existing campus bus and shuttle tracking Android app in Java. Recreated the Android app in Kotlin, reducing app size by 50% and improving network performance, user experience, and user interface responsiveness.

Participated in assignment development for system-level C programming course. Created robust Python scripts to automate testing of student submissions for grading. Held office hours teaching students and providing help with debugging through discussion.

Command line Python package to simulate a MIPS program by interpreting assembly text. Future plans for an editor extension that enables MIPS debugging and visualization.

Interactive tool to assist deploying a private gitlab instance for the purpose of source submission along with assignment distribution.

64-bit operating system in C targeting the x86_64 platform. Features include context switching, AHCI driver virtual memory management, copy-on-write fork, and userspace processes. Tested on hardware.

RESTful social networking service written in NodeJS. The service was deployed to a private cloud using Ansible and scaled to respond to millions of client requests using multi-process clustering and a sharded MongoDB database.

Original scripting language implemented using the Python PLY (yacc/lex) library with support for: duck type variables, shallow scoping, if/else statements, while loops.

AngularJS and Java web app deployed to PAAS environment. Features include saving user-generated content from HTML5 Canvas, publishing canvas contents to the landing page, and enabling users to modify saved work.

Desktop application written in Java and JavaFX that allowed users to load saved MLB JSON data, construct fantasy baseball teams manually, and auto-generate teams in a separate thread. Two years later helped professor win his MLB Fantasy League (Apr '17).