The final project at 42 School — a real-time multiplayer Pong game that had to handle user authentication, private messaging, and channel-based chat at the same time. I led the frontend architecture. At peak we were running 20+ concurrent users over WebSockets without it falling over, which was the real test.

A multi-stage DevOps project to actually understand Kubernetes from the ground up. Three stages: K3s on Vagrant-managed VMs, then K3d, then wiring up Argo CD for GitOps so every push to the repo triggered an automatic deployment. The kind of project where you spend a day debugging a YAML indentation and learn more than any tutorial could teach.

An HTTP/1.1 web server written in C++ from scratch. No frameworks, no shortcuts — non-blocking I/O with select/poll, custom request routing, and CGI support. The goal was to get it to behave correctly under concurrent load and pass the same test suite we used against Nginx. Really clarified how HTTP and concurrency work at a low level.

This portfolio, built as a full-stack app with a CMS-backed admin panel so I can update content without touching the code or redeploying. Deployed on Vercel with sub-second load times. Simple goal: fast, clean, and easy to maintain.