Aiden Kerr | Software Developer

Created a 3D scene editor with React / Three.js allowing users to create, save, and share their creations.
Implemented backend with Node and Express, using a NoSQL MongoDB database to store scene and user info.
Implemented raymarching in GLSL using signed distance functions, allowing for "goopy" shape interactions.
Calculated surface normals using gradients of the signed distance functions with central differences to implement Blinn-Phong lighting.

Created an interpreter for the BF language written in C++.
Improved performance by preprocessing instructions, storing possible instruction jump addresses.
Tested using the Google Test unit testing library.

Awarded first place out of 18 teams, judged by video game industry professionals, for a 2D game built in team of 6 in a custom engine using C++ and OpenGL with an Entity Component System.
Implemented electric player attack with custom electricity shader made by displacing UV coordinates with noise, using RGB texture channels to encode visual information.
Created shaded sprites using the Blinn-Phong model with normal maps and configurable material properties.
Implemented smooth camera movement by offsetting position based on velocity and interpolating between frames.

Used React with Material-UI to build responsive website similar to Reddit's layout.
Utilized Express to read/write from a MySQL database to allow posting, voting, and more.

Developed using a binary tree structure that backtracks when all questions in a branch have been asked.
Implemented persistence by reading and writing to JSON files.
Achieved 100% test coverage with JUnit to ensure program quality.

Developed algorithm and designed interface to visualize how natural selection can affect populations over time.
Used custom React components as well as libraries to display the state of the population.