Projects

CommonRoom

In Active Development

Overview

CommonRoom is a collaboration platform being built to connect younger developers with serious, long term project teams outside the short lifecycle of hackathons.

Problem

Student developers often struggle to find committed collaborators once events end. Existing platforms are either adult focused, socially driven, or lack structured project coordination tools.

Solution

CommonRoom is designed to support skill based discovery, structured team formation, and organized project collaboration in one system.

Technical Focus

  • Backend architecture and relational data modeling
  • Authentication and role based permission systems
  • Project, team, and membership schema design
  • Scalable collaboration workflows and messaging logic
  • Designing for extensibility before UI polish

Engineering Approach

The system is being built with a backend first mindset. The focus is on clean abstractions, maintainable data relationships, and well defined permission boundaries before interface refinement.

Status

Core feature architecture and database structure are under active development.



Noctura

MIT Blueprint 2025

Overview

Noctura is a hardware based heart rate tracking prototype aimed at helping individuals better understand physiological patterns associated with insomnia.

Concept

The system uses light based sensing to approximate blood flow changes and derive heart rate data. The objective was to explore how simple biometric inputs could translate into actionable sleep related feedback.

Technical Work

  • Built a pulse sensing system using an Arduino microcontroller
  • Used photoresistors to detect changes in blood flow through light absorption
  • Processed analog signals to extract heart rate patterns
  • Designed compact exterior to be more accessible for at home use

Engineering Focus

The project emphasized hardware integration, signal processing fundamentals, and working within physical constraints such as inconsistent lighting and sensor instability.

Outcome

Produced a functional hardware prototype capable of real time heart rate tracking within a limited development window.