Andrew Plaza

Hi, I'm Andrew Plaza

I am a fresh graduate working on Rusty Open Source Software

Experience

WeWork

Aug 2017 - Jan 2018

Worked on internal documentation software in React/Typescript, and handled devops/testing for experimental web applications

Sharkk

May 2017 - Aug 2017

Worked on designing fast, efficient API's in Ruby and designing/building a fast mobile application in AngularJS for Android/iOS that communicates with low-powered bluetooth devices. In addition, I created and implemented an automated deployment workflow for all of Sharkks webapplications with NodeJS

International Samaritan

Feb 2017 - Nov 2017

Designed and built the International Samaritan website & custom plugins from the ground up with Wordpress & PHP. Provisioned, administered, and secured the webservers that ran the site and made backups.

Projects

Ethereum Debug

Language(s): Rust

2018-Present

A Real-Time Debugger for Ethereum's Programming Languages

Emotif**k

Language(s): Rust

Oct 2017

A spin on the Esoteric Programming Language 'Brainfuck' created by Urban Müller (PhD). Emotif**k is Brainfuck but with Emojis.

Ergo

Language(s): HTML/CSS

Sept. 2018

A Web-Theme I created to test out the Gutenberg static site generator, and to refresh my blog.

Absentis

Language(s): Rust

Aug 2018

A CLI Tool Created for the GitCoin QuickBlocks Bounty. Attempts to validate a list of Ethereum Transactions in a CSV file by querying a specified Ethereum Node

Material Bliss Jekyll Theme

Language(s): Ruby/React/Redux/HTML/CSS

Dec 2016 - Jan 2017

Another web-theme static-site-generator experiment. This time, a material design using Jekyll with a home-brewed plugin to allow for the use of React/Redux

Scranton Hacks

Language(s): React/NodeJS/SCSS

2017

ScrantonHacks is my student-run Hackathon club. We attended more than a few hackathons throughout 2016/2017.

Past & Present FOSS Contributions

Rust Web3

Language(s): Rust

Aug 2018 - Present

The Rust Version of Web3JS. It makes Ethereum API's available to more developers and helps grow Ethereum's use.

Redox OS

Language(s): Rust

Apr 2017

RedoxOS is an Operating System written completely in Rust. After becoming interested in Rust, this is the first project I contributed to. I fixed bugs with the WindowManager and the PIT interrupt handler not context switching.