Nicolaas Zwart
Hello, I'm Nic, a full stack engineer and embedded programmer. I live in Berkeley, CA.
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Some academic & personal software projects:
- Rust-Powered Microcontroller Home Humidity Sensor - A home humidity monitoring system designed in Rust, running on the Raspberry Pi Pico
- The Grand Mini Contest - An ongoing adventure in pointless but fun (?) crossword data analysis implemented in Python
- Zoom Call Glitch Simulator - An audio processing experiment that simulates a bad Zoom call (packet loss, latency, jitter) using the Opus codec, built in Rust with CPAL
- D&D Combat Encounter Builder & Associated Microservice - A full-stack webapp and microservice for password generation, built with TypeScript and Go
- PluraLeaf - Collaboratively built location-based social platform, coded in Python (FastAPI) and JavaScript
- Copywriting - I worked on projects for video game companies like Bethesda, Arkane, and Gearbox through Hammer Creative
- Content Writer - I wrote nearly 100 episode scripts for an in-house podcast studio at Spotify
- Screenwriting - I wrote television scripts and story outlines for studios like DreamWorks and Warner Bros, and wrote a feature film that premiered at Tribeca Film Festival
- I've made music in various forms/genres for a long time. I'm currently working on two music projects with my modular synthesizer system
- Cycling - Road, gravel, and MTB