Spimy's Portfolio

Zero to Web Hero

A series of web talks of 8 sessions with the goal of teaching the MEVN stack and Docker for Sunway Tech Club (STC). The final product is a simple todo application with authentication features included. This series is done in collaboration with Alex Chee Kai Hong, who is responsible for the frontend side for things, while I am responsible for the backend side of things and the Dockerisation of the project. If you wish to see the slides, you may contact me for them via the contact form.

Pengyou

Pengyou is a solution project for the 48-hour Hackathon "ImagineHack 2024" by Team Dessert Spoons. Team members are Joshua Edwin Rene Bonham, Lai Yung Wei, Alex Chee Kai Hong, Lanisha Anusri A/P Saravanan, and I. It is a platform targetting the people that are interested in improving their financial situation. The mission of Pengyou is to encourage people to form good budgeting habits by making budgeting more friendly to them. We believe in the importance of forming good habits, thus we have introduced a reward system using a virtual pet to motivate people to actively take control of their financial lives.

AccessAbility

AccessAbility was created as a project for KitaHack 2024 and subsequently the GDSC Solution Challenge 2024 upon being selected as one of the top 10 representatives for Malaysia. Our group consisted of 4 people: Alex Chee Kai Hong, Rachel Lim, Mohammed Moatasem and myself. The focus and target audience of this web application are the disabled where the aim is and to provide them with a platform where they can more easily search for jobs. In order to incentivise employers and/or companies to use the platform, over or in tandem to an alternative such as LinkedIn, is to increase their reputation through various means. The most obvious was to take advantage of societal norms, encouraging the hiring of disabled people and reduce discrimination in the working environment. Due to time constraint from assignments and exams however, this project was never completed. Everyone also had to study the required technologies, further consuming valuable time. Consequently, the prototype, where many features are lacking, was used as submission instead.

Subtitles

In collaboration with Eray Chumak, we successfully developed Subtitles, a web project that addresses the need for a streamlined and user-friendly platform to download subtitles for movies, TV shows, and anime. Eray worked on the frontend using Vue to create a good user experience when browsing. I worked on the backend, integrating OpenSubtitles' API and TMDB's API to retrieve relevant data. We created this together because we both found existing websites for downloading subtitles to be cluttered - especially with ads - and a designed which was outdated. We created Subtitles with a simple goal: to search and download subtitles efficiently without distractions. The project was initially hosted on Heroku. However, we moved the hosting over to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in March 2023 due to Heroku's updates in payment policies. This migration allowed me to learn Bash through SSH and settings up a functional web server using NGINX. This project allowed us to refine our technical skills as well as our teamwork and communication skills, making this a very good learning experience.

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