Owen Duckham

Teaching Assistant

• TA for CS 2500 (Fundamentals of Computer Science I) during the Spring, Summer 1, and Fall 2024 semesters.
• Taught labs for Spring and Summer 1 Semesters, and led lab during Fall 2024 Semester.
• Co-designed and implemented core autograding infrastructure

Software Engineering & IT Intern

• Developed internal tooling to help keep track of and analyze manufacturing process defects
• Built on dotnet, using F#. Interfaced with legacy Access Databases.
• Performed penetration testing and wrote a detailed report based on my findings
• Mapped current IT infrastructure; helped design a plan for improvement
• Interfaced with a Keithley source meter over the VISA API. Automated tasks, resulting in 200%+ productivity improvements.

Cashier

Software Engineering Intern

• Collaboratively developed control software for industrial vacuum melting furnaces
• Interacted with a Allen Bradley PLC, monitoring furnace temperature & pressure, controlling crucible movement (allowing for programming pour motions)
• Incorporated a comprehensive user permission system
• Developed modern Windows applications using WPF in C# to replace legacy Visual Basic applications.
• Followed the MVVM pattern, improving maintainability.
• Interacted with a Microsoft SQL database, implemented secure user authentication with hashing and salting

Engineering Intern

• Converted legacy 2D drawing into 3D CAD models
• Improved existing 3D models
• Helped translate electrical diagrams

Tanzanite (Discord Bot)

• Developed a fully featured moderation and utility bot for Discord
• Includes an auto-moderation system integrating with Discord's native auto-moderation.
• Written in TypeScript and run with Node.JS, utilizing my fork of the discord.js library.
• Additionally uses my updated fork of discord-akairo, @tanzanite/discord-akairo
• Forked discord-akairo and rewrote it in TypeScript, ensuring strong and accurate typings
• Added support for new Discord features such as slash commands
• Improved testing and added data validation

NotEnoughUpdates (Minecraft Mod)

• Core Maintainer for the NotEnoughUpdates Minecraft mod
• NotEnoughUpdates is a popular client-side minecraft mod for the SkyBlock game mode on Hypixel, written for Minecraft 1.8.9
• It contains an item list (similar to NotEnoughItems), various game specific overlays, a custom profile viewer and other QoL features.
• Managed core infrastructure for the project, including backend server, domain, GitHub organization, Discord server

JS Unminifier

• Created a plugin (written in rust) for SWC which reverses many of the effects of JavaScript minification, transpilation, and bundling (from Babel, SWC, Webpack).
• Performed many heuristics to improve the readability of minified code
• Restore literals (minifiers abuse type coercion to replace many literals)
• Convert unnecessary sequence expressions into statements
• often extracting them from other statements (throw, return, if, while, for, etc)
• Convert side-effect only boolean binary expressions back into if statements
• Convert complex ternary expressions into a series of if statements
• Restore code to use newer JS features (optional chaining, default parameters, template strings)
• Allow mapping Webpack module ids for better names when imported
• Rename known generated helper functions (ex. _defineProperty, _createClass)
• Restore minified naming when possible (named exports, named component, destructed assignments)

Magic Racket fork

I forked the Magic Racket Visual Studio Code extension, improving the syntax highlighting for the HtDP Student Languages