About Me
Who I am
My name is Sawyer, and I'm a rising senior in Software Engineering at Cal State San Marcos. I helped run CSUSM's ACM and Cybersecurity Clubs, learned a lot, met great people, and picked up a few wins at hackathons and competitions.
I build practical, secure products with the end user in mind. My current interests include Full-stack Development, Generative AI, and Blockchain.
Software Engineering is my primary focus, but I also have supplementary skills in IT, Cybersecurity, Networking, Cloud Computing, Generative AI, etc. I can pretty much do anything if it involves a computer and I have source documentation or an internet connection.
I enjoy sports, games, healthy competition, dabbling in the arts, and thinking about life.
Technical Skills
Confident:
C++JavaPythonHTMLCSSJavaScriptReactGit/GithubNode.jsAWSAmazon Bedrock
Familiar:
TypeScriptSolidityFoundryNext.jsTailwindPHPMySQLPostgreSQLSQLiteSupabaseVercelAzureGCPTableau
Dabbling:
RustGo
Highlights
- 🦆 Fall 2025 SDSU DxHub/AWS AI Camp: Selected to participate in a 2 day pop-up hackathon; built AI prototype for asianamericanedu.org that helps simplify which of their 200+ lessons meet which state requirements.
- 🦆 Scholarship - Summer 2025 DxHub/AWS AI Camp: Selected to learn AI at Cal Poly SLO DxHub; built AI procurements solution for CSU's.
- 🏆 Winner – 2023 Consensys NAVH Hackathon: Built the frontend for an automated payments system in a Web3 programming competition.
- 💡 HackFS 2022: Co-developed an NFT Rental Marketplace; project received grant interest from judges.
- 🛡️ Collegiate Cyber Defense Competitions: Participated in multiple WRCCDC, picoCTF, and Hivestorm events, applying real-world security and infrastructure hardening concepts.