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Booker's Portfolio
I'm a Software Engineer on the Network Infrastructure team at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. I graduated Summa Cum Laude from Loyola Marymount University with a degree in Computer Science and a minor in Interactive, Gaming, & Immersive Media.
Projects
Games
Fractured Sky
Fractured Sky is an innovative, upcoming tactical role-playing game in which player choice impacts character relationships and narrative outcomes. The game makes use of procedural-generation to create levels that are entirely unique every playthrough and fully destructible.
- Unity
- C#
Star Fleet
Star Fleet is an intense space dog-fighting game. Lead your fleet of ships to victory by defeating all enemy ships. Each wave brings a new challenge as the number of enemy ships and teams increases. Do you have what it takes to be the best pilot in the galaxy?
- Unreal Engine
- C++
- Blueprints
Space Cadet
An arcade-style space game with a modern twist: planets exert gravitional pull on their surroundings. Explore the final frontier!
- JavaScript
- p5.js
Coral Planet
Step into the center of the world where a variety of sea creatures roam around the planet’s core. Your job: pick up the pollution.
- React.js
- Three.js
Augmented Reality Filters
Cyberpunk Showdown
Post-Apocalyptic
Lucid Geode World
Black Knight Fight
Darth Vader - Lava
Created a collection of filters using Snapchat’s Lens Studio, combining machine learning, augmented reality, and 3D modeling and animation to place thousands of users in immersive environments.
- Lens Studio
- JavaScript
Miscellaneous
Parley - Language Translation
Parley is a messaging app that aims to foster a global community of users able to click on messages to translate them to their target language.
- React.js
- Firebase
- Google Translate API
Experience
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
● Owned the operational readiness for the dynamic host configuration protocol and zero-touch provisioning of a ground-up datacenter. Created logs, Telemetry metrics, alarms, and runbooks for system health incident diagnosis and resolution. Designed user-friendly Grafana dashboards using MQL queries for Key Performance Indicator visualizations.
● Contributed to large-scale infrastructure code and worked on REST APIs to integrate hardware architecture and network monitoring workstreams. Set up the Docker container environment on compute hosts. Fixed critical security vulnerabilities.
● Drove design reviews for backend development of a cable validation web portal that provides data center technicians accessible real-time rack and cable setup instructions and feedback.
● Developed a Python tool to automate software updates for load balancers which redirected network traffic and validated service health. Optimized runtime using multithreading to efficiently update over 15,000 load balancers without customer impact.
● Managed an intern in Summer 2024; Scoped project based on intern’s experience and team priorities, drove daily stand-ups to review and debug code, and provided performance evaluations.
● Created a Python program using pandas to aggregate business metrics such as monthly bandwidth utilization and perform data analysis. Generated charts for efficiency improvements and quarterly profit reports delivered to key stakeholders including Oracle Cloud VPs.
Dolby Laboratories
Designed, implemented, and documented an automated workflow task monitoring system in Informatica using XQuery and REST APIs to eliminate the time IT department spent manually scanning task logs.
Education
Loyola Marymount University
Bachelor of Computer Science, May 2022
3.98 GPA
Dean's List
Research Fellowship Grant
Presidential Scholarship
Technology
I've worked with a wide range of technologies.
Game Development
Experience with
Unity and Unreal EngineFull-Stack
Experience with
Network Infrastructure and React.jsCoding Languages
Experience with
Python, Java, C#, JavaScript, CSS, HTML