Major-Projects

What This is & Who I am

This is a growing repository of code that will serve as a portfolio to be seen by potential educational institutions or employers.

I am Jake Zaia, a master student of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. Prior to CMU, I was a CS major at the Rochester Institute of Technology with 3 minors in Quantum Information Science & Technology, Computing Security, and Mathematics. My academic interests nowadays primarily center around quantum computing theory. Before that, I studied Computer Science at Stuyvesant High School.

Most projects in this portfolio are a result of particularly interesting courses I have taken, or are from one of various hackathons I have attended, with some personal projects sprinkled in. For more information about me, check out my official website. Also, check out my devpost for other projects I've contributed to.

Table of Contents

Hackathon Projects

• Tapout [Python + HTML + JavaScript + Firebase]
• The Orange [Python + HTML + JavaScript + MongoDB]
• Tamagogo [Python + HTML + Javascript + MongoDB]
• Safety Gauntlet [Python + HTML + Javascript + MongoDB + Arduino]
• Legendary Potato [Python + HTML + JavaScript + MongoDB]
• The Internet of Things [Python + HTML + JavaScript + MongoDB + Google Cloud Platform]
• TicTacNull [Whitespace]
• Antiviral [Python + HTML + JavaScript + IBM Watson]
• Pandora's Engine [Python + HTML + JavaScript + MongoDB]
• Bartleby the Personal Assistant Garden Gnome [Python + OpenAI + ElevenLabs]
• DJSquared Bot for Debris Defense Minigame (ACM AWAP) [Python]

Carnegie Mellon University

• 15-618 -- Parallel Computer Architecture and Programming
  • Parallel Boruvka's Algorithm Implementation [C++ + CUDA]

Rochester Institute of Technology

• Game Development & Algorithmic Problem Solving
  • Grov [C# + MonoGame]

Stuyvesant High School

• IntroCS1

  • Pokemon Battle Simulator [NetLogo]

• IntroCS2

  • Victray [Python + HTML]

• APCS

  • Pokemon Battle Simulator [Java]
  • Starui [Processing-Java]

• Software Development

  • ROCZ-Stories [Python + HTML]
  • Imajin [Python + HTML]
  • Zeroish [Python + HTML + JavaScript]
  • Sector_Data [Python + HTML + JavaScript + d3]
  • Jammi [Python + HTML + JavaScript + Firebase]

• Systems Level Programming

  • Blue-shL [C]

• Computer Graphics

  • Corundum [Ruby]

How to Navigate

All projects are stored in other Git Repositories and are linked as submodules. To see the code for each individual project from browser, just click on the link and you will be able to see the full project, along with some information explaining it.

Other notable projects

In addition to the projects listed here, I have also done work on:

• The official RIT HvZ website
• The official RITlug website
• The Stuyvesant CS-Dojo Website