About
Why?
This app was built as a replacement to other todo list apps, which didn't provide all the functionality I needed or depended on a monthly subscription. Building it has been a great learning experience, and I hope others can learn from it as well!
Tech Stack
| Component | Technology |
|---|---|
| Frontend Framework | React |
| API | tRPC |
| Styling | TailwindCSS |
| UI Primitives | shadcn/ui |
| ORM | Prisma |
| Full-Stack Framework | Next.js 13 app directory |
| Hosting | Vercel |
| Database | Planetscale |
About Me
Sourced from my GitHub profile
👋 Hi there!
ℹ About Me
My name is Brendan, and I love solving complex problems. I am a Computer Science student at North Carolina State University, and I have been doing computer programming as a hobby for over 6 years, building projects like BlueDragon (Kubernetes, Kotlin, Next.js, MongoDB), Easysearch (Go, SQLite), and a capture-the-flag recruitment challenge (Next.js, Docker, SQLite) for my high school's cybersecurity team.
I'm also a volunteer full-stack web developer at Pitch Labs, a small business education nonprofit. I manage their cloud infrastructure and maintain their website and internal dashboard, both of which are built with Next.js 14, TailwindCSS, and Strapi.
I am currently looking for software engineering internship roles for Summer 2025. Connect with me on LinkedIn!
🛠 Currently Working On: 🐲 BlueDragon
BlueDragon is a custom Minecraft server network with original and innovative minigames. It's built on Kubernetes with Agones for game server management and Tekton for CI/CD. Deployed applications include a Minecraft server implementation written in Kotlin (based on Minestom), a queue service that communicates with game servers over gRPC, and a Next.js 14 website that displays player statistics from our MongoDB database.
👨💻 Website · 💬 Discord · ⚙ GitHub
📚 Currently Learning:
- Creating custom Minecraft server experiences with Minestom
- Writing web services with Go
- SQLite and its full-text search extension, FTS5
💡 Experience
- Kotlin/Java, with deep knowledge of Minecraft client and server development
- Knowledge of the Minecraft protocol
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript
- JavaScript frameworks, including React with Next.js, SolidJS, Svelte, and VueJS (primarily with the Options API)
- Docker, Docker Compose, and OCI image tools like Buildah, Kaniko, and nerdctl.
- Kubernetes and Agones, an open-source game server scaling and orchestration system build on top of Kubernetes
- SQL databases (primary SQLite) and MongoDB
📈 Stats