Blog Posts

Read some of my Medium blog posts about cybersecurity, music, and tech internships.

The Dangers of Audio File Formats!

Picture that you’ve just recorded the perfect take. To preserve your pristine recording, you devote an equally careful editing session. After pouring many hours, slaving over your track’s balance, instrument mix, and fixing those subtle imperfections, you now want to share your polished track with the rest of the world. So you export to MP3 and upload to SoundCloud.

Rookie mistake!

Zipper Photo from Sergio Boscaino on Flickr

Your Last Dev Internship Rejection

The dust has just settled after another turbulent year of college career fairs, internship interviews, offers, and rejections. Although your entire friend group apparently aced their interviews, you flopped. A CS senior myself, I also have collected my fair share of interview catastrophes. Feeling defeated comes naturally, but don’t let rejection demotivate you. Perhaps your surface-level 30-minute interview did not demonstrate your true problem-solving aptitude.

Prove your interview naysayers wrong.

Hackathon Photo from TechCrunch on Flickr

Pa$$word Problems

While conventional password-creation wisdom has taught us to include special characters, use a mix of upper and lowercase, and toss in some numbers, what if your password complexity doesn’t matter? Further, if we constantly create insecure passwords, or just reuse the same one…

*shivers*

…what other risky habits have we fallen into?

Audio and Visual Media

Watch and listen to some content about social hacking and my university's videogame-building club.

Hacking... Without Code?

Black Box Tech

Media has fed our radicalized image of hackers — computer geniuses in basements just keystrokes away from our personal data. But what if they don’t even need a computer? What if they only need a phone call, email, or door courteously held open? We dive into low-to-no-tech attacks you might unexpectedly fall victim to, including: phone calls, phishing, and tailgating.

Video Games and the Creative Process

Virginia Tech Gaming Project

When you think about making a video game, what comes to mind? Coding? Play-testing? What about creativity? From music to animation, designing and building a game involves much more than just technical skills. We ask members of Virginia Tech Gaming Project (VTGP) about their take on the creative process (including myself) as well as how students of any skills can get involved with VTGP.

Helpful Links

SoundCloud

Listen to some of my previous compositions and podcasts.

Blog Posts

Read some of my technical and audio-related blog posts.

GitHub

Find some cool apps or helpful code I've written.

LinkedIn

Explore some of my previous prefessional work and current pursuits.

3Blue1Brown

My favorite source of mathematics visualizations. Highly recommended!