Julian Reder
Computer Engineering & Statistics Student @ NCSU
I build research software connecting hardware with distributed systems.
Developer for AERPAW, an NSF testbed for advanced wireless and autonomous flight.
Student at NC State University (B.S. Computer Engineering & Statistics, 4.0 GPA).
I also interned at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, play Factorio, and have three cats.
Autonomous vehicles, radar & flight systems.
2025
- aerpawlib: The official vehicle control library for AERPAW, NC State's research testbed for advanced wireless communications and autonomous aircraft.
2024
- PyAerial: An airspace awareness and aircraft tracking system that ingests Mode S and ADS-B signals, evaluates geofence boundaries, and displays live flights on a radar map.
- DroneTracker: An automated tracking service that points AXIS pan-tilt-zoom cameras at flying drones using live GPS coordinates from Kafka and records flight video over VAPIX.
Beyond these, I have made many other contributions across the AERPAW platform, from fixes and features in the testbed's software to tools that support day-to-day experiment operations.
Data platforms, compilers & software systems.
2026
- ML-Ticker: A command line financial data tool built during my internship at Merrill Lynch, featuring FactSet FQL querying, a safe formula evaluation engine, and Excel reporting.
- Strife: A multiplayer game platform for Discord that runs turn-based matches inside message threads, featuring plugin game engines, PostgreSQL persistence, and crash recovery.
- NCSU Parking: A predictive parking availability model for NC State campus decks that combines historical occupancy feeds with campus event schedules and validates machine learning models against strong seasonal baselines.
- Amazon Music Discord RPC: A browser extension and lightweight Rust background helper that shares current Amazon Music playback status to Discord Rich Presence.
- Portfolio Website (v3): A personal portfolio site generated with custom Python build scripts from structured TOML data, featuring twelve interactive HTML5 canvas background simulations.
2025
- discord.py-template: A modular discord.py application starter template featuring YAML configuration, cog hot-reloading with automatic rollback on error, structured crash logging, and emoji analytics.
2024
- finiteCraft: A distributed web scraping and graph search project that discovered and mapped crafting combinations for the browser game Infinite Craft.
2023
- Chess-Challenge: A custom C# chess engine developed for Sebastian Lague's Chess Coding Challenge, implementing iterative-deepening alpha-beta search within a strict 1024-token code budget.
- Triggered: A rule-based Discord automation bot that allows server administrators to configure custom event triggers and actions without writing code, with configuration stored in MongoDB.
- Statify: A Minecraft server plugin built with the Spigot API that aggregates server-wide player statistics and evaluates custom mathematical ranking queries.
- Piranha: An early Discord chess bot that integrated the Stockfish engine with a local board rendering service to run interactive matches.
- Molotov: A desktop screen automation script that used screen capture and dictionary lookups to play the word game Bomb Party automatically.
Writing & technical notes.
2026
- Hello World: Welcome to my blog :D
Experience & Education.
- Technical Intern, Bell, Bell & Cronlund Group @ Merrill Lynch Wealth Management (May 2026 - August 2026)
- B.S. Computer Engineering and Statistics, North Carolina State University (Fall 2025 - Present)
- Developer @ AERPAW (Summer 2023 - Present)
- A.S., Wake Technical Community College (Fall 2023 - Spring 2025)
Elsewhere.
GitHub: https://github.com/quantumbagel
Discord: @quantumbagel
Resume: preview pdf
Email: jjreder@ncsu.edu
Talk to me.
I am always interested in new opportunities and am happy to talk about them.