Portfolio

This list covers personal projects. For professional experience, see my LinkedIn.

Software

• CityQuiz.io: a geography quiz website with more than 60,000 registered users and 1.9 million quizzes played. Written in Python (Django) and TypeScript (Vue).
• fast-concordance: instant concordances of classic books, in Go.
• Polygrammarous: a web app for exploring linguistic diversity.
• Webble: an online word game inspired by the classic table-top game Boggle.
• obsidian-quick-links: a small plugin for the personal wiki software Obsidian.
• hera-py: an assembly-language toolkit used by the CS department at Haverford College.
• Venice: a compiler for a simple high-level programming language, written in Rust and including a hand-written x86-64 backend.

Writing

Technical

• Khaganate: a suite of personal productivity software (2022)
• A subtle garbage collector bug (2020)
• Type-safe generic data structures in C (2020)
• Writing an interpreter and debugger for an assembly language (2020)
• The Ergonomics of Faceted Execution – my undergraduate thesis in computer science (2019)
• DP-internal only in English and Russian – my undergraduate thesis in linguistics (2018)

Non-technical

• The textual history of the Christian Bible (2025)
• Cyc: history's forgotten AI project (2024)
• Writing systems (2024)

Teaching

• CS644 – introduction to systems programming on Linux, taught at Fractal University (spring and fall 2025)