Michael Chiou's Portfolio Website

Welcome to my Projects Page!

Here are some of my previous projects:

Maze Generator project
Maze Generator project
Travel Planner App
Travel Planner App: Github link
Central Ohio Tax Website Rewrite project
COT Website Rewrite: https://ohtx.com
Virtual Reality Showcase project
VR Showcase: Youtube link
Image Similarity Searcher project
Image Similarity Searcher project
Discord Crosspost Bot project
Discord Crosspost Bot project
Pomodoro Timer project
Pomodoro Timer project

Past Projects:

  • Travel Planner App (https://github.com/YytRecg/TravelPlannerApp) – (February - June 2023)

    • Synergized ChatGPT, Firebase, Google Maps, and Flickr API to develop a comprehensive travel planner app
    • Leveraged Android Studio to design a tailored Android app, blending innovation with user-centric design

  • Central Ohio Tax Company Website Rewrite (https://ohtx.com) – (December 2022)

    • Rewrote the entire website for Central Ohio Tax Company from scratch using React and Bootstrap
    • Eliminated monthly WordPress costs while drastically cutting the website response time from 13 seconds to under 1 second

  • Virtual Reality Showcase in Unity Project (https://youtu.be/g8xfKMycDiw) – (November 2022)

    • Created an interactive VR showcase in Unity to demonstrate physics and to inspire possibilities for creative projects to other students

  • Discord Crosspost Bot – (November 2022)

    • Engineered an automated service to enable users to serve media feed across Discord servers to thousands of users
    • Applied knowledge of graph theory to develop quick, lightweight, and easily deployable code using Node.js

  • Image Gallery Project – (July - September 2022)

    • Developed a feature-rich, full-stack image gallery web application using JavaScript, React, Express, Node.js
    • Engineered scalable code to manage large-scale hashing, resizing, renaming, and transferring of image files
    • Integrated intuitive hotkeys and UI layouts to optimize viewing experience for desktop and mobile platforms

  • Maze Generator in Unity Project – (September 2022)

    • Implemented Kruskal’s graph theory algorithm in C# to procedurally generate 3D mazes in Unity (game engine)

  • Super Mario Bros Recreation Project – (January - May 2022)

    • Collaborated in a 5-member team using Agile Scrum methodology and Git version control to write Super Mario Bros. from scratch using C#
    • Implemented design patterns and optimization strategies to increase code performance by over 30%

  • Pomodoro Command-line App (https://github.com/SkyAceMike/Pomodoro-CLI) – (December 2020 - January 2021)

    • Programmed a feature-complete Pomodoro CLI using JavaScript to assist with personal time management
    • Implemented a visualization of remaining time left and key-binds for pausing, skipping, and stopping timers
    • Engineered the source code to be easily modifiable and readable with well-commented code

  • Image Similarity Searcher – (October - November 2020)

    • Utilized hamming distance and data analysis to develop a full-stack web app to detect and remove similar images
    • Built the web app frontend with JavaScript, React and the backend with Express, Node.js

  • Video Downloader Software – (December 2019 - February 2020)

    • Designed a user-friendly UI to download videos from online sources using the Python Tkinter GUI library
    • Integrated extensive error checking and handling to ensure a consistent user experience