Let's get serious then.
Good morning. This is what you want to read if you're an employer, admissions officer, or anyone with serious intentions.
Web Development
I've been doing full-stack development for over 4 years now, and I care deeply about building products that are not only polished but highly functional and performant. My core stack is React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS, though I've also worked with vanilla HTML and other frameworks such as Vue. I handle state with Zustand, manage databases with Supabase, Firebase, and IndexedDB, and cache with Redis. I also have extensive experience with more specialised libraries such as Three.js, Monaco Editor, Recharts, and KaTeX. I test all of my products with Jest to maintain code quality and ensure everything is production-ready, BrowserStack to verify cross-platform compatibility, and Polypane to fine-tune responsive design across varying screen sizes and resolutions.
Python & Machine Learning
I've been writing Python for 7 years, which has allowed me to not only work fluently in the language itself but develop a strong focus in specific areas: scraping, browser automation, and machine learning. For web-related tasks, I use DevTools and Burp Suite to perform digital forensics to write fast and undetectable scraping and automation solutions. For machine learning and reinforcement learning, I have studied and applied DQNs, LSTMs, and CNNs using PyTorch, including work conducted at the Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen.
C++
I use C++ exclusively for competitive programming. Whilst this means I don't carry the same breadth of software development experience in C++ as I do in my other languages, I'd rather maintain sharp in competition related knowledge than dilute that with language features that don't serve that goal.
Reverse Engineering
I should note that I only ever work within legally clear or grey territory. I have never done anything malicious, and have no intention of doing so, so please don't blacklist me. My experience spans a few different contexts. For web traffic, I use Burp Suite and Wireshark to intercept and map out closed systems, which in practice means reconstructing undocumented APIs. For Android, I work with Ghidra, JADX, Frida, APKTool, and Burp Suite as a proxy, usually inside a virtual machine, to decompile and inspect applications at runtime. I've also spent considerable time on binary analysis — files with completely undocumented extensions, where the work is reading raw hex in ImHex, identifying encryption or compression schemes, and slowly working out what the format actually is.