Chase Cha

Hi! I'm Chase.

I'm currently a graduate student at UVA studying Data Science and I have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. I'm into weightlifing, playing guitar, and like to code! Thanks for stopping by my site! Feel free to check out my blog posts since I'm trying to upload a new one every so often, and leave a message in the guestbook!

About Me

I first started programming in college, and ever since have tried to learn as much as I can. In terms of the future, I'm interested in fullstack/frontend development, and really enjoy tackling interesting software problems. This past summer, I worked at Amazon as a Software Development Engineer Intern and developed a LLM-based query helper (see my resume below for more on this) while learning a lot about different AWS technologies. However, I am always trying to gain more backend development experience through personal projects/self teaching, so reach out if you have any advice or resources you'd recommend. I also love collaborating/working with others so if you'd want to work on something together, please reach out! Outside of programming, I love to exercise, play music, and have started reading more too so please contact me with any recommendations or drop a message in the Guest Book!

Projects
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A Project built fully on Java. I used JavaFX and FXML for the UI/frontend and Java and JDBC (Java database connection) for the backend. This project is no longer being hosted on a URL, but I've linked my GitHub so you can check out the source code!

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This project was built with the Django framework for Python. I utilized Bootstrap for the frontend and worked on a team of five people total to develop the app. My main role was more backend/devops focused. I was responsible for setting up our Amazon S3 file storage, PostgreSQL database, and cloud hosting. This project is currently being hosted, so feel free to check out either the source code or the deployed project!

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This is a site I built for a client last summer. I was responsible for the location pages, so I developed the linked directory and all of the individual linked location pages for them. Similar to this site, I mainly used React, Typescript, and Tailwind CSS for development. I did however use a different CMS and deployment method, if you'd like to learn more about the content management and deployment for this website head to the posts page!