Hi, I’m Maria

I like building useful, well-crafted software—interfaces, services, games, or things with a model in the loop. Tough problems and room to learn are where I thrive.

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Projects

Things I’ve built (or am building). Hover or tilt—cards move. Pick a tool below to spotlight a match.

Eye Hear U

ASL → text & speech, in real time.

PyTorch video model (I3D), FastAPI on AWS, and an Expo client with Firestore—Terraform and CloudWatch on the ops side.

  • PyTorch
  • FastAPI
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • React Native
  • Firebase

In motion · 2026

Soothsayer

Tarot-flavored cards, branching stories.

Unity + C# gameplay systems on a nine-person crew—shipped macOS & Windows builds to Itch.io.

  • Unity
  • C#
  • Game design

Fall 2025

Scriptorium

Run code in the browser—ten languages.

React & Tailwind up top, Next.js + Docker + Prisma underneath, REST all the way through.

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Prisma
  • Docker

Fall 2024

Tools & tech

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Also: React Native · Express · Flask · Firebase · Jest · Cypress · Pandas · NumPy—and always picking up more.

What I like building

Modes I work in most often—real projects usually blend a few at once.

Frontend

Components, layout, and interaction—making screens feel fast, clear, and a little bit delightful.

Backend

APIs, services, data modeling, and the boring-good stuff: validation, errors, and sensible boundaries.

Full-stack

Owning a feature soup-to-nuts: UI, API, persistence, deploy—so the whole path stays coherent.

AI / ML

Models, training data, and inference—especially vision and anything that needs a sane path to production.

Game dev

Gameplay systems in Unity—cards, state, and polish that still plays nice with the build pipeline.

Education

Formal CS depth alongside everything above.

Honours B.Sc., Computer Science Specialist

University of Toronto

Sep 2022 — Jun 2026 (expected) · GPA 3.80 / 4.00 · Dean’s List

Course highlights: software engineering, web development, algorithms, operating systems, databases, machine learning, neural networks & deep learning.

Work

Roles where I’ve shipped, taught, and improved tools other people rely on.

Teaching assistant · Software design

University of Toronto, Computer Science · Sep–Dec 2025 · Toronto

Weekly tutorials and labs for a large Java course (CSC207)—OOP, design patterns, and how to structure real code. Graded exams and mentored teams on architecture, Git, and agile delivery.

Full-stack developer

Runwei™ · Jan–Apr 2025 · Toronto

Shipped a browser extension and mobile app pipeline for business-opportunity data. Used the OpenAI API to extract and classify messy inputs from many formats. Tests with Jest, Cypress, and Maestro; CI/CD with GitHub Actions and strong coverage.

Software developer · PyTA

Students Developing Software (SDS) · Jan–Apr 2024 · Toronto

Extended PyTA, a Python linter used by 1,500+ students each term—PEP8 rendering, new static checks, docs, tests, and code review across many pull requests.

Contact

Hiring, collabs, or just want to trade side-project stories—say hi.