Alston Chan

Full Stack Developer

October 28 11:35 PM

PROJECTS

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Washington Post Dining Reviews Map

Next.js, Typescript, WPDS UI Kit, Washington Post Content API, Google Maps API

Built in collaboration with Washington Post interns during the Post Intern Hackathon, creating an interactive visualization for dining reviews across the DMV area. Extracted raw article text from WaPo’s Content API, and formatted into cleaned JSON data to render components. Features include live geolocation, filters for areas and specific food writers, and AI-powered insights. Tom Sietsema approved!

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DBK Stylebook

Next.js, Typescript, TailwindCSS, PostgreSQL

Created a digital solution for The Diamondback's 50-page PDF stylebook, featuring instant search capabilities and categorical organization of editorial guidelines. Implemented a modern front-end interface with client-side search indexing to provide real-time content filtering, enhancing accessibility and modernizing the newsroom's daily workflow.

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Ad Astra AI

Next.js, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, Langchain, Pinecone, OpenAI API, Clerk, Firebase

Utilized OpenAI's GPT-3.5 to build an ChatGPT powered teacher's assistant for my computer science courses. Parsed 100+ pages of LaTeX PDF notes into vectorized embeddings using LangChain's document loaders, storing them in Pinecone's vector database for efficient semantic search and retrieval and allowing for context-aware responses drawing from course-specific materials. Now deprecated.

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Flavor Fusion (WIP)

Next.js, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, Prisma, PostgreSQL

A gamified educational cooking minigame that transforms culinary knowledge into daily interactive challenges. Players learn real-world cooking principles by making crucial decisions about ingredient combinations, cooking techniques, and timing. Currently in development!