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 Club, learned a ton, 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, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain.

A recent highlight: at an AWS-hosted DxHub AI Camp at Cal Poly SLO, my team built a procurement-evaluation app in two days using AWS Bedrock (Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet) and Cursor. Work that used to take weeks of reading vendor bids dropped to minutes. I used to be skeptical about AI; now I treat it like any other tool—use it when it improves quality and speed, skip it when it doesn't. My goal is simple: ship reliable software, securely and responsibly, and in a way that makes people's lives better.

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Highlights

• 🦆 Scholarship - 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.