Projects
Check out some of my more presentable projects, both from hobby work and from university.
★ML-Monitor
Mobile App | Workflow
React Native
NodeJS
Web
Mobile App
Firebase
Julia
Javascript
A tool that relays status updates from your running ML worker to your android device, for easy monitoring. Allows you to work on other tasks, and receive a notification when training is done.
★Exoplanets Visualizer
3D Web App
React
BabylonJS
Web
PostgreSQL
NodeJS
Javascript
Inspired by NASA's "Eyes on Exoplanets", this web app visualizes data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive in an interactable 3D environment. There are a variety of customization options, with more planned in the future.
★UNCC Course Visualizer
Web App
React
Web
NodeJS
Javascript
Downloads course listings and details from the UNCC Course Catalog, and visualizes their dependencies in a Tangled Tree format. Designed to help users understand course offerings and prioritize bottleneck courses.
⚠️ Requires CORS Proxy!
★Peer-to-Peer Messaging App
Mobile App | Web App
React Native
Web
Mobile App
Networking
Javascript
A hybrid web/mobile app designed for P2P chat and file messaging between devices. Currently requires a Signal Server (included) to facilitate device handshakes.
★Tinder-Style Image Ranker
Full Stack Web App
React
ASP.NET
PostgreSQL
Azure
Kubernetes
Docker
Javascript
C#
My capstone project at UNCC. A web service that lets you rank a dataset of images according to whatever metric you like, in a fashion similar to "swipe-left/swipe-right" style apps. Its main purpose was to be a proving ground for a variety of full-stack technologies.
This Portfolio Website
Website
NextJS
React
Javascript
Built with MUI and hosted on GitHub Pages, this site is my home for showcasing my projects. The entire site is designed to be statically rendered, so that it can be crawled by search engines. It's also rigged up with Google Analytics, for better tracking of how useful it is.
Course Project - Social Media Flask Website
Website
Flask
MySQL
Python
A simple social media service, hosted on Flask, with database integration through MySQL. Course project for ITSC 3155 (Software Engineering) at UNCC.
Don't Starve Mods
Collection | Support Library
Lua
Modding
In 2015-2016, I made a series of mods for the game Don't Starve, written in Lua. They include content ports, novel functionality, and a feature-adding support framework for other mods.
Miscellaneous LÖVE2D Projects
Collection
Lua
Löve2D
Various (very) old programs I wrote in a Lua framework called LÖVE. They include a Civilization-type game, a Procedural Generation test, a local server that serves data to a TTS importer script, and a UI proof-of-concept.
Technical Work History
I'm looking for my first technical job now. I've done a lot of technical work for my hobbies and education, but nothing yet in a professional setting.
Outside of college, I've worked for several years in food service, and more recently as a math/science tutor. I'm also occasionaly paid to provide IT support to extended family and friends.
About Me
I've loved programming from a young age, and I've spent years working on hobby projects and acquiring experience in a variety of languages and problem spaces.
From 2012-2016 I was working mostly on video game mods, which involved familiarizing myself with large codebases and determining how those codebases expected me to implement given features.
Since 2017, my focus has been self-contained game design projects, with focuses like Procedural Generation, Performance Optimization, UI Design, Code Management, and Developer-assistance Tools.
During my college education, I focused on hands-on experience with Machine Learning, Web Development, Project Management, and Cloud Web Services.
From 2012-2016 I was working mostly on video game mods, which involved familiarizing myself with large codebases and determining how those codebases expected me to implement given features.
Since 2017, my focus has been self-contained game design projects, with focuses like Procedural Generation, Performance Optimization, UI Design, Code Management, and Developer-assistance Tools.
During my college education, I focused on hands-on experience with Machine Learning, Web Development, Project Management, and Cloud Web Services.
Contact Me
Micah LaSala
Full Stack Developer
Page flicker white on load?
Sorry about that!
I recently migrated the site to NextJS for SEO reasons, and it isn't playing nice with the other libraries. For now, Javascript has to finish loading before the page is themed correctly. Hopefully I'll have it fixed soon!