David Tan

About Me

Hey, I'm David and I'm passionate about making and breaking things!

I attended Cooper Union in NYC for a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and then pursued a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. I have 9 journal publications and 13 conference proceedings related to my research, and I've built a wide variety of useful and useless things ranging from autonomous fish robots to vibration control systems to musical instruments.

In June 2023, I completed App Academy's coding bootcamp to pivot towards software engineering and to start building modern web applications that can be seen worldwide. Since then, I've picked up a whole new tech stack at Soopra.ai while refining my JavaScript skills building a Twitch integrated racing game as a freelancer and providing human feedback to AI responses as part of Scale.ai. If you have an app idea that you need help implementing, let's grab some coffee and talk about it!

Scroll down if you want to find out more about my recent work

itinerator

An itinerary generator for your day off!

Itinerator simplifies your planning experience by suggesting a diverse set of activities for you based on any location. Are you meeting up with a friend at a park but you're not sure what to do afterwards? Maybe you want to explore a nearby town that you've been dying to visit. Itinerator can help plan your day with a few clicks and transform your free time into memorable experiences.

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Relentless Clash

Battle your friends in this rapid sword combat fighting game!

Relentless Clash is a game written in vanilla JavaScript in which 2 players hack and slash at each other until one player wins by two rounds. Players control their characters using either a keyboard or a gamepad controller connected to their computer. Don't have a friend to play with nearby? Just battle against 10 levels of computer AI and see if you can endure this relentless clash.

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