Maxwell Pauly

Student

Computer Engineer B.S. '24 Electrical Engineering M.S. '25, focused on software engineering, algorithm development and analysis, digital design, hardware design, and machine learning. My plan is to join the ranks of the most innovative fields in software development and engineering. I believe this is where the biggest impacts on humanity can be made, which is my overall goal. It is a very exciting time to be alive and I hope to push the STEM fields forward through innovation and efficiency improvements to our existing technologies.


Interests: Deep Learning, Logic Design, Performance Engineering, Robotics, Business


Projects

Club Hub 2023

A web application, which allows students at the University of Hawaii to view all the available college clubs and event information.

Meteor MongoDB Digital Ocean React

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Alaka'i Trail Directory (Hackathon) 2021

A submission to the Hawaii Annual Coding Challenge 2021 that helped the Department of Land and Natural Resources track the number of people on their hiking trails.

Django Node.js Django Rest Framework React Twilio Stripe Trails.js

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Hand Written Digit Recognition 2021

A neural network that can identify hand written digits that I trained, uploaded to the cloud, and created a website frontend to interact with it.

Django TensorFlow Google Cloud Platform Heroku Deep Learning

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Instrumentation & Control Protobot 2021

I was on a team (Robotic Space Exploration Team) that made a rover as an entry to the University Rover Challenge. I was on the Instrumentation & Control team and helped them design and implement all aspects of their frontend interface and frontend software to remotely control the rover.

ROS Roslib.js Express.js React

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Essays

Power of Software Engineering

09 May 2023

Software Engineering Over the past few months, I have gained a deeper understanding of what it takes to design and develop high-quality software. Through a combination of lectures, assignments, and projects, I have honed my skills in software development methodologies....

Software Engineering Project Management Development

Integration Hell And How To Avoid It

04 Feb 2023

Game Changer After learning more about version control, Integrated Development Environments, linting tools, and coding standards, I have a much better feel of what it means to develop software “correctly”. I’ve made a ton of little 50 lines or less...

Integration Hell IDE Git ESLint

Potential

31 Jan 2023

The AI revolution is here… Software Engineering I really love coding. It speaks to me on sort of a personal level. I don’t like subjectivity, and coding is always discrete and always follows the laws of it’s technology stack. Nothing...

Software Engineering Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Entrepreneur

Hacker Community Guidelines

26 Jan 2023

“How To Ask Questions The Smart Way” by Eric Steven Raymond are unwritten community guidelines for hackers. These are not specific rules to any one forum, but more a collective attitude hackers have towards one another and the standards they...

Hackers Smart Questions Software Engineering Forms

Javascript Is Here To Stay

18 Jan 2023

Javascript has turned into a monster, but is it already too late… I’m quite experienced with javascript for a college student. I’ve made many websites for friends, family, and just for fun. I’ve used frameworks like Express, React, Node, Angular,...

Javascript Language Features Personal Opinion