About
Hello! I'm Julian Reder, a programmer and student at North Carolina State University. This website has a brief overview of my projects and skillset, as well as a contact form. It's also a template, see the project on GitHub to see how to use it yourself :D
Hopefully you find something interesting here! Feel free to reach out if you want to chat about anything or have questions about my projects or experience.
Experience
Financial Services Technical Lead, Merrill Lynch
This summer, I am working with Mr. Geoffrey Bell at Merrill Lynch to help modernize their internal calculations platform via FactSet with Python.
North Carolina State University
I am currently enrolled in the Computer Engineering program at North Carolina State University. I am pursuing a Bachelor's in Statistics and Computer Engineering and a Master's of Computer Science.
AERPAW Developer
I have had the pleasure to work with Dr. Mihail Sichitiu at the Aerial Experimentation and Research Platform for Advanced Wireless at North Carolina State University for a couple of years now. I have built several interesting projects including a plane tracker and a drone flight recorder.
Wake Tech Community College
This was my first experience taking college coursework. I graduated with multiple appearances on the Dean's List, membership in the Phi Theta Kappa chapter, and an Associate in Science degree.
Projects
PyAerial
A better plane tracker for AERPAW, successor to airstrik.py.
airstrik.py
A pure-python ADS-B plane tracker for AERPAW.
Piranha
A chess-playing Discord bot with various features.
finiteCraft
A web scraper and craft finder for Neal Agarwal's Infinite Craft.
DroneTracker
Track drones with cameras! Another AERPAW project.
Triggered
An if-this-then-that Discord bot for automation and fun.
PlayCord
A Discord bot for paper and pencil games with local and global leaderboards.
Statify
A SpigotMC plugin for statistics aggregation and leaderboards.
Molotov
A Selenium-based bot for the game Bomb Party (jklm.fun).
discord.py-template
A simple, modern, and clean discord.py 2.0+ template.
Chess-Challenge
A mini-chess bot for Sebastian Lague's chess bot challenge.
aerpawlib
A MAVLink/MAVSDK abstraction layer for experimenters under the AERPAW platform.
Skills
Languages
My primary language for most of my programming career. Used for web scraping, automation, data science, and drone software.
Proficient in C/C++ for systems programming and performance-critical applications. Used in various academic and personal projects.
Used extensively for front-end development (Tailwind, React) and specialized automation tools.
Really good understanding of OOP principles. Experience mostly in the context of building Minecraft plugins.
Experience with .NET and game development. Most recently used for Sebastian Lague's Chess Challenge.
Proficient in writing scripts for automation, CI/CD pipelines, and Linux system administration.
Technologies
Heavy user of Linux for development and server management.
All my major projects are deployed using Docker for reproducibility and scale.
Advanced user of PyCharm, CLion, and IntelliJ.
Strong understanding of Git workflows, branching strategies, and repository management.