GAVYN EZELL

Experience

• Teaching over 20 students foundational programming and software concepts through JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Collaborating with other instructors to adapt and teach curriculum from corporate, to address the needs of different students and classes.
• Writing worksheets and exercises for students to practice and retain learned material outside of class.

• Worked with a senior engineer to implement a standardized event streaming protocol using Apache Kafka, meant to serve machine learning and business intelligence teams for downstream analytics.
• Developed a service named Eventer using FastAPI, used to publish and subscribe to registered events within GoFundMe's main microservices, which included user and fundraising activity.
• Collaborated with microservice teams to implement event listeners in PHP and Laravel. Ensured proper integration and deployment with PHPUnit.

• Built a Flask app to centralize access to personal health data from various health wearables such as Dexcom Glucose Monitoring, Fitbit, and Oura Ring.
• Presented a live demo of the web app to the foundation’s leadership, receiving feedback for its functionality and design to plan for future changes to the app.

Projects

TwoFrame

Web Application

Skills: TypeScript, Next.js, Tailwind, HeroUI, Supabase, Drizzle, Docker, Python

• Formed a small team of developers to make a full-stack Next.js site for managing video game tournaments.
• Designed a data schema and developed a fully functioning backend using Supabase.
• Wrote a script to properly generate and display double-elimination brackets that take into account fair seeding and double-jeopardy avoidance.

VR Drummer

3D Unity Game

Skills: Unity, C#, Meta Quest Development

• Designed and created a Quest 2 VR game to simulate a real life drum kit, and included a simple 3D interfaced metronome.

Super Smash Bros. Player Tracker

Web Application

Skills: Javascript, Express.js, MySQL, API, GraphQL, Twilio

• Developed a website for monitoring pro players in the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate competitive scene, using Express.js and MySQL.
• Utilized Start.gg’s GraphQL API to fetch data for competitor info, such as their recent tournament placements, upcoming tourneys, and socials.
• Incorporated Twilio’s Messaging API for a simple notification system.

Ray Tracer from Scratch

3D Rendering Engine

Skills: C++

• Built a ray tracer in C++ to read a formatted scene description file and render a 2D image.
• Implemented a bounding volume hierarchy for accelerated rendering runtime, cutting hours of rendering time down to seconds.
• Additionally created a script for translating .obj files into readable files for the ray tracer.

Eventify

Web Application

Skills: Javascript, Express.js, MongoDB, Mongoose, React, REST

• Participated in ACM @ UCSD's Spring 2023 Project Group, working with 5 others to build a website for event promotion and search on campus, using the MERN stack
• Designed and implemented a RESTful API using Express.js to handle authentication, and manage user and event information.
• Utilized AWS S3 for simple media storage.

Gavyn's Voyage

3D Website

Skills: JavaScript, Three.jsGLSL

• Built an interactive 3D website to learn about me using Three.js
• Wrote multiple shaders in GLSL, inspired by the style and environment of The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker

VR Air Racing Game

3D Unity Game

Skills: Unity, C#, Meta Quest Development

• Built a VR air racing game, using the Quest 2’s hand tracking capabilities for user interaction and control.

Education