INTRO

hi, chrystel here.|

I create stuff sometimes.

I am a software engineer from Orlando, Florida. I'm fascinated by large-scale, high-impact products and contributing to major feature launches in industry-leading services.

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About me

I am currently pursuing my Bachelor's in Computer Science degree at the University of Central Florida (Go Knights!⚔️).

In my free time, I love experimenting with new game development ideas, tinkering on my project car and playing video games. Oh, I am also on the hunt for the best matcha around!

Experience

Amazon — Software Development Engineer Intern

May 2025 — August 2025

Designed and implemented an end-to-end solution impacting 700,000+ Amazon sellers, enabling alignment and rotation configuration for custom products in Seller Central.
Developed accessible, modular front-end UI components using React, TypeScript, JavaScript, and SCSS.
Internationalized the feature across 9 countries, expanding availability to global sellers.
Built unit and integration tests using Jest and React Testing Library to improve regression reliability.

Knight Hacks — Graphic & UI/UX Designer

February 2026 — Present

Designed branding, club graphics, social media templates, and website assets for Knight Hacks.
Supported club initiatives and promotion for the organization’s annual 36-hour hackathon with 1,000+ participants.
Collaborated with design and development teammates to create consistent, accessible visuals across digital platforms.

Projects

Project spotlights

Each tag highlights my favorite projects so far!

TAG 01 Deep Blue A minimal LAMP web app for organizing contacts with quick search, add/edit, and notes wrapped in an ocean-inspired, responsive UI. TAG 02 Toki MERN app with a Daily Summary, Calendar, Weather, NASA Photo of the Day, and UCF Parking Tracker with glassmorphism and a starry background. TAG 03 Delivery
After Dark Unreal Engine stealth game with AI drones, objectives, inventory UI, and multi-level progression.

Visual showcase

Deep Blue update contact screen floating above the reef

Deep Blue create and search interface with playful fish

Deep Blue

Dive-themed contact manager across auth, CRUD, and marketing touchpoints.

Website GitHub

Toki login screen glowing over a starfield backdrop

Toki dashboard showing weather, tasks, events, and NASA image of the day

Toki calendar view with upcoming events panel

Toki weather forecast layout with hourly and weekly details

Toki real-time parking availability dashboard

Toki Orbit Planner

Daily rituals orbiting NASA imagery, weather, calendar planning, tasks, and animated chrome planets.

Website GitHub

Delivery After Dark title screen with dark stealth game UI

Delivery After Dark tutorial level gameplay

Delivery After Dark level one suburban gameplay

Delivery After Dark

Third-person stealth delivery game built in Unreal Engine with AI threats, objective tracking, inventory UI, and multi-level progression.

GitHub

Ruff-Ruff Rover hardware prototype with electronics and rover chassis

Ruff-Ruff Rover system architecture diagram

Ruff-Ruff Rover

Voice-responsive autonomous rover using whistle detection, audio localization, computer vision, path planning, and embedded robotics control.

GitHub

Knight Hacks Design Team group photo with branded event graphics

Knight Hacks 2026 social media calendar design

Knight Hacks Design Team

Branding, club graphics, social media templates, and website assets supporting Knight Hacks initiatives and hackathon promotion.

Miffy’s Matcha Cafe home screen with featured drinks

Cart and checkout screen with order summary

Miffy’s Matcha Cafe

Matcha-themed Android cafe app with a full mobile POS flow: browse, customize, and check out orders.

GitHub

Personal Portfolio

Pink chrome interface featuring custom illustrations, cursor FX, and interactive keychain navigation.

Current Site

Non-visual builds

MySPIM: Mini MIPS Processor Simulator

Single-cycle MIPS datapath in C on Unix. Executes 14 core instructions end-to-end, with modular ALU, control, and PC update logic. Enforces memory alignment and honors control signals.

C / Unix / Systems Programming

Treasure Coordinates Parser

Java backtracking and parsing to generate all valid (x,y) pairs from a numeric string while enforcing number-format rules.

Java / Algorithms / Backtracking

Enhanced Text Preview

Built core UI and logic to accurately preview customizable text on products in Seller Central, including rotation, alignment, constraints, state management, validation, and tests under feature flags across multiple marketplaces.

React / TypeScript / Jest + RTL / Design Docs