Zachary White | Projects

Projects

Production systems, ML pipelines, and performance-focused work.

Full-Stack / Backend / Infrastructure

Somerville Museum Inventory System

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Architected and shipped a production inventory management platform for the Somerville Museum.

Next.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLServerlessVercel

·Led 12 engineers through sprint cycles and code review standards
·Designed architecture and relational schema
·Built backend routes/serverless handlers
·Introduced caching and query bundling for performance
·Modernized hosting/database infrastructure

44%reduction in load times

95%reduction in annual operating costs

60%reduction in staff onboarding time

Full-Stack / Cybersecurity / JumboHack 2026

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Real-time Wi-Fi security dashboard built at JumboHack 2026 that turns packet captures and port scans into plain-language risk insights for non-technical users.

Next.jsFastAPIRaspberry PiNmap

·Built dashboard interaction flows and scan-state UX (initial scan + re-scan behavior)
·Implemented Next.js API proxy routes to Pi endpoints for scan, Nmap, and LLM workflows
·Wired streaming scan + analysis data into frontend state and device detail views
·Configured Scapy scans and returns via FastAPI on Raspberry Pi 5

1st placeJumboHack 2026 (Cybersecurity track)

Full-Stack / Backend

Commonwealth Kitchen Job Board

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Built a production full-stack job board with role-based experiences for member vs business users.

Next.jsTypeScriptClerk AuthPostgres (Neon)Vercel

·Full-stack application architecture and implementation
·Clerk auth integration and role-based flows
·Postgres schema design and deployment pipeline

80%increase in member engagement

50%decrease in admin overhead

Full-Stack Product Engineering

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Interactive event/tabling mapping platform for campus operations.

ReactTypeScriptTailwindMySQLNext.js API

·Built map interaction + user workflows
·Implemented REST APIs for auth, verification, and DB access

~150concurrent users at Tufts Community Day

Adoptedby Tufts OCL

ML + Data + Full-Stack

Reddit Politics Sentiment Dashboard

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Built a dashboard that scrapes political forums and classifies sentiment + political leaning.

MongoDBGPT-4 APIPythonJavaScript

·Multi-source data scraping pipeline
·MongoDB schema + data flow design
·GPT-4 integration + custom classification model
·Frontend dashboard for model outputs

84.3%leaning classification accuracy

92.3%sentiment accuracy

Graph ML / Data Engineering

Twitch Language Detection

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Predicted language communities from graph structure using embeddings + supervised learning.

PythonNode2VecXGBoostNetworkX

·Generated Node2Vec embeddings
·Trained and tuned XGBoost classifier
·Built evaluation and visualization pipeline

90.1%accuracy on 168k-node Twitch SNAP graph

0.88macro F1 across six language families

Performance / Systems

Chess Engine Optimization

Alpha-beta pruning, move ordering, and board representation optimization.

C++

·Implemented alpha-beta pruning + move ordering
·Improved board representation and benchmarking

70%win rate vs initial implementation

Performance / Systems

Image Compressor/Decompressor

Custom binary encoding/decoding pipeline with optimized memory handling.

C

·Built custom binary encoding/decoding pipeline
·Optimized memory handling

Compressed to 33% of original size

~3%quality loss with meaningful compression