Brian Lin

About Me

My interest in Computer Science came from my enthusiasm for computers when I was young, mainly from loving the game World of Warcraft. I was always interested in anything related to digital technology, and so when my high school offered the "Intro to Java" class I was stoked to enroll. I wrote my first "hello world" program in Java when I was in the 10th grade and have been programming ever since. I'm ardent about Computer Science because it gives me the knowledge to understand how computers are able to do what they do. I am intrigued by how typing certain words and numbers together you can make anything you envision to show up on your screen, it's almost like magic.

Experience

Developing Projects

After college I am still motivated to learn more about programming, creating projects to further hone my skills, I am in the process of gaining a higher level of programming mastery and hope to present my skills to show my future employer what I am capable of.

Stony Brook University

Undergraduate Bachelor's of Science

Here I learned advanced topics of Computer Scienece ranging from Algorithms and Data Structures to System Architecture and Database Design, I really enjoyed my time at Stony Brook because of the relationships I developed with my peers. They were there to help me all the way, whether it was academic advice or personal advice.

Education

Stony Brook University

2015 - May 2019

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Stony Brook showed me how to discipline myself, it showed me how difficult programming can be but through hard work and perseverance I was able to solve my problems and came out the school with much better coding practices.

Harrison High School

2011 - June 2015

I began coding in the 10th grade, my first programming language was Java in Mr. Morris's class. A great man and a great teacher, I owe him so much for teaching me the fundamentals.

Projects

Spinning-Clothing

My goal for this project was to further deepen my skills with using React, what I learned: Styling effectively with Sass, state managment with Redux/Reselect/Persist, React-Router, React-logger, login authentication with Firebase, API integration, using local storage and more.

GitHub | Live site

CoTube

A Spring application with a MySQL database, my final project of my undergraduate career. I worked on a team of four with me being the lead programmer. My job was to help with both the front end and back end. The hardest part was connecting the two together. I gained valuable experience working on a team.

GitHub | Live site

Face-Recognition-Brain

My first full-stack React project, it takes in a image URL an will highlight where in the image there is a face. A fun project that taught me alot of industry technology. I suggest using this image: https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800/2014/4-researchersf.png

GitHub | Live site

The-Dopulator

The-Dopulator is a calculator application that computes "how much does each person owe one another", for events where people can't immediately pay their share, it minimizes the amount of transactions needed for all debt to be paid in full.

GitHub