HestiMae.github.io

Hi there! If you’re reading this, you’re for some reason interested in the things I’ve done before, and the things I might like to do in future.

Before

I’m a Software Engineering / Pure Maths graduate, so I’ve ended up making a few projects through that.

One of those was a strange TUI/CLI game made in Java which, over time, had its scope run away into including many advanced features.

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I’ve also done full-stack development in CakePHP for a simple travel booking website, with user login and payment integration. (Can’t show this one!)

I’ve also worked as a Software Engineer, working especially around Data Manipulation and Web Apps.

In one instance, I co-developed a data entry/manipulation/autofill Node.js app called Silver

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This was packaged as an Word/Excel (online and offline) Office.JS add-in, which let users import data from a web service, and helped them file word-document reports by autofilling fields and providing an information summary for fields which couldn’t be filled automatically.

The most notable part of the app was that it was data-driven - All of the specification for retrieving and manipulating data for each field from the CSV could be configured in JSON using string-specified binary and reducer operators.

I enjoy working in collaborative and open source communities in my free time. Most recently I worked on a large PR for a mod for Minecraft that implemented a graphical frontend to the otherwise CLI-only mod.

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As someone familiar with full stack development in web, the end result is visually simplistic - but it’s intuitive and fits within the style and quite strict technical limitations imposed by the game and modding tools.

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I found this project very interesting to work on and collaborate with the API developer around - Minecraft operates with a familiar structure of “Client” and “Server”, where this interface operates purely on the “Client”, while the mod itself and all data is held purely on the “Server” - bringing limitations i’m all too familiar with from standard frontend development, but boiled down to bare essentials.

Later

I’m interested in pursuing projects that challenge my software engineering skills, as well as encourage opportunities to learn more in mathematics. I like working on things that feel like real solutions to problems - that some end user will eventually enjoy - not just the five-thousandth copy of a bespoke enterprise solution.