Professional Expirence

WebHosting Admin at Techmint applied solutions: Feb 2025-Present
- Fostered teamwork by training peers on web development frameworks, enhancing overall team efficiency and knowledge sharing
- Maintained comprehensive documentation of web hosting processes, ensuring clarity and adherence to best practices across projects
- Coordinated cross functional teams to address client needs promptly, fostering a culture of shared responsibility and customer satisfaction
Extern at Washington State University: Sep 2024-Jan 2025
- Understudied Proffesor while fixing and improving WSU auto lab system used for automated grading in CS courses.
- Trained on many full stack development related skills such as Ruby on Rails, git development norms, and Docker.
- Documented technical improvements and best practices in system maintenance, ensuring clarity and continuity for future team members.
Crew trainer at Northstar resturants (Mcdonnalds): Aug 2021-Oct 2023
- Provided coaching and mentorship to foster a positive work environment among staff members.
- Explained training information in easily understandable terms for individuals from all backgrounds and levels.
- Monitored job performance of assigned crew members, offering constructive criticism when necessary.
- Served as partner and team member to achieve compliance objectives.

Projects

More in depth details of each of these projects and their source code for some can be found in the nav bar at the top of the screen.

Symetric encryption

Programed a encryption system similar to DES and skipjack algorithms commonly used in industry.

This was coded in the Go coding language. A cryptography system needs to be fast. Although Go is not the fastest language available, it was sufficent for the project. Go was also chosen because it supported future features.

After creating this for a cryptography class I expanded this project by turning it into a REST API, allowing users on this site to see have an example of what the encryption process looked like.

Micrograd handwriting recognition

Using the micrograd library developed by Andrej Karpathy, created handwriting recognition software.

This was created for a class I took an Artifical intellegence. Micrograd and my final product were both written in Python 3.

I plan to expand this project later by migrating the Micrograd code base into the new Mojo coding language. This will make the program much faster, allowing me to create a larger neral netowork and support more characters.

My hope is to support all english characters, and potentally support language detection

Wordle Solver

A program that would take the current state of Wordle and make a good word guess suggestion. Could be used by a player to guess more optimal words.

My code used a heuristic method that would guess the Wordle correctly more than 80% of the time. "parody" wordle games were also supported because the algorithm was able to guess any sized word.

This was created in the Java coding language for a data structures class. The purpose of the assignment was for us to use different data structures creativly. As a result, my code relys a lot on hashtables and other common data strucures. Often when not necessary.

Skills

Coding languages and Technolgies

Python: Expert

C/C++: Skillful

Go(lang): Expirenced

Java: Expirenced

git: knowledgeable

HTML/CSS/JS: knowledgeable (this site was bult with these)

Soft skills

Problem solving: Expert

Critical thinking: Expert

Time managment: Expert

Teamwork: Skilled

Training: Experienced

Education

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (B.S.) IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

Aug 2021 - June 2026

Planned to graduate in summer of 2026

HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA

Year of 2021

Union High School, Camas,WA

Sammy Thorne