Allen

Software

Software I wrote, then interrogated to find out whether it actually works.

The Software system

One of the two suns of Projects; it circles the centre opposite Hardware.

  • Canadian Fish

    Play the six-player card game Literature in the browser, with live rooms, bots that deduce instead of guess, and practice drills.

    Shipped

    • FishAI Bots for Canadian Fish, a six-player card game of hidden information, and the simulation lab that measures whether they are any good.
    • Fish Onboarding Learn the card game Literature in about four minutes, in a scripted teaching game where you have to make the key moves yourself.
    • Fish Online Planned: a website for playing Canadian Fish online, the step after the demo. Nothing is built yet.
  • Days2Meet

    A group availability poll in the spirit of When2meet, plus a dates-only mode for the plans where hours are meaningless.

    Shipped

  • CyberPatriot

    Four years in the national youth cyber defense competition, as my team's Windows specialist and then its captain, and second at the National Finals twice.

    Completed

Hardware

Rockets that come back in one piece, and robots that know where they are.

The Hardware system

One of the two suns of Projects; it circles the centre opposite Software.

  • Model Rocketry

    A staged-recovery rocket taken through eleven design iterations at AFRL, and the American Rocketry Challenge team I founded and captained.

    Completed

  • Robotics

    My high school's first VEX V5RC team, which I co-founded and programmed, from autonomous navigation in C++ to back-to-back national division finals.

    Completed

Hackathons

Things built against the clock, and the events I help run.

The Hackathons system

  • Cal Hacks 13.0

    Berkeley's hackathon, October 23 to 25, 2026, for more than 3,000 attendees, seen from the organizing side: I plan its catering and hacker buses.

    In progress

  • Hackathons @ Berkeley

    Logistics director for the student team behind Cal Hacks: catering and hacker buses for 3,000+ attendees, and merchandise from vendor quotes to delivery.

    In progress

  • HackGT 13

    HEARSAY, team dh squad's entry to the NSA challenge at HackGT 13, which scores how likely a voice clip is synthetic and shows the evidence.

    Shipped

  • Corgi Hackathon

    RunItBack, built in twelve hours at the Corgi Hackathon at Y Combinator's Startup School, placed 5th of more than 1,000. The write-up is coming.

    Planned

Research

Questions I want to answer with data. Planned, for now.

The Research system

  • Sports Analysis

    Planned: research in sports analysis. This page fills in when the work starts.

    Planned

    • Kalshi Planned: a Kalshi project that grows out of the sports analysis research.