James

James Young

Hello! I am a grad student pursing a Master's in CS at BU. I did my undergrad at HKUST (Electronic Engineering).

My main interests are in cloud computing and Linux administration.
Resume

Personal Projects

Project
Cloud

Serverless Face Blurring

An event-driven serverless application that automatically detects and blurs faces in an image using AWS resources.

Uses API Gateway, Lambda, Rekognition, SQS, and S3. Deployed with Terraform.

Project
System Admin

Home Lab

My home lab/server where I self-host various applications such as Jellyfin (media server), self-hosted Github runners, etc.

Using Proxmox for hosting VMs and LXCs with Ansible and Terraform for automation.

Project
Embedded Systems

STM32 Mini-Robot Cleaner

An STM32 robot with wireless control via UDP and automatic navigation mode with obstacle avoidance using bubble rebound algorithm.

Robot coded in C and wireless control and socket programming done in Python.

Project
Software

Full Stack Air Quality Dashboard

A full-stack project that stores and displays air quality sensor data from my home.

Backend uses DynamoDB, API Gateway, and Lambda. Front-end displays data using HTML, CSS, and JS.

Work Experience

Software Developer Intern

December 2023 - Feburary 2024

Intelligent Design Technology Limited, Hong Kong

Developed a prototype for real-time human fall detection using pose estimation with Movenet and heuristics for determining fall.

Electronic Engineering Intern

August 2023

Kolour Think Tank, Hong Kong

Developed project that takes images of a digital utility meter with ESP32-CAM, reads the meter reading with AWS Rekognition, and stores the data in AWS DynamoDB.

Internet of Things Intern

December 2022 - May 2023

Graphite Venture Limited, Hong Kong

Worked on reading and sending water sensor data to AWS IoT core with an ESP32 module through MQTT.