I'm a second-year Computer Engineering student at UBC. I write firmware for UBC Solar's race car and build web apps on the side, including Songless, a song-guessing game with over 100,000 visits.
Looking for an internship starting January or May 2027
Song-guessing game · 100k+ visits
My version of Songless: you hear the first 0.01 seconds of a song and try to name it, and each skip plays a bit more, up to 15 seconds. There are 804 songs across five difficulties. Behind it is a pipeline that pulls each track, checks it's the right version with an audible opening, and uploads the clips to Cloudflare R2.
React, TypeScript, Vite, Cloudflare R2
Nutrition tracker · in progress
Most nutrition apps stop at calories and macros. This one tracks 59 nutrients against your own daily targets, and you'll log meals by taking a photo. The AI only names the food; every number comes from the USDA's food database, so a bad guess shows up as the wrong food instead of a made-up value. The nutrient reference and the interface are built; accounts and real logging are next.
Next.js, TypeScript, Drizzle, Postgres, Vitest
Pixel-art story game
A short story game in the style of the Gen 3 Pokémon games, built on Phaser 4. It has 15+ scenes with saving, fast travel and dialogue you can rewind. To test it, I wrote Playwright scripts that play through the routes and check lighting and collisions.
Phaser 4, TypeScript, Playwright
Desktop app
Image compression with the Haar wavelet transform, written as matrix operations in NumPy. A small desktop app lets you change the threshold and depth and compare the result with the original.
Python, NumPy, CustomTkinter
I proposed adding motor temperature sensing to UBC Solar's car with a PT1000 RTD, then wrote the firmware for it, from a breadboard prototype to the driver on the Motor Drive Interface board.
The tricky part was failures that look like data. If the MAX31865 is missing, SPI reads still succeed and return about −259 °C, which looks like a real temperature, so the driver checks the chip's config register before every conversion. A fault also has to persist for five reads before the flag is set, so one noisy reading doesn't raise an alarm.
Try unplugging the sensor in the table. It follows the same rules as the firmware. The last photo below is a real capture from the board with the sensor pulled.
| CAN-ID | Length | Data | Means |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0x500 | 4 | 00 00 00 00 | up 0 s |
| 0x501 | 1 | 00 | no flags |
| 0x502 | 6 | 01 18 00 00 00 00 | read ok, 24 °C |
Sep 2025 – now · Vancouver
UBC Solar
C, STM32 HAL, FreeRTOS, CAN, SPI, Grafana
Oct 2025 – now · Vancouver
A stealth AI infrastructure startup
Go, Postgres, Docker
BASc Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, expected May 2029. Average A-.
Computer Systems (SystemVerilog, FPGA, RISC-V), Software Construction (Java).
TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next.js, Vite, Tailwind, styled-components, Phaser, Drizzle, Postgres, Playwright, Jest, Vitest, Cloudflare R2, Vercel
Go, Python, NumPy, Java, SystemVerilog, Docker, Linux, Git
C, STM32 HAL, FreeRTOS, CAN, SPI, ADC, CMake, oscilloscope, PCAN, J-Link, ST-Link, Grafana
I'm looking for a software or embedded internship starting January or May 2027, for 4, 8 or 12 months. I'd like to work in the US and I'm happy to relocate. Email is the fastest way to reach me.
martinwu500@gmail.com