Jacob Arciniega-Bueno

Pancake League

          In this project I developed a real-time multiplayer game server in Java and Spring Boot with an authoritative server-side game state, synchronizing updates across multiple concurrent players. For the user interface I built a web-based front-end in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript using WebSockets to support real-time client–server communication. Additionally I integrated the Phaser.js game framework to manage in-game assets, rendering, and physics, and implemented automated CI/CD pipelines for continuous build and testing.

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Crypto Slots

          Here I developed an interactive React web application using JavaScript / TypeScript, HTML/CSS, and Node.js, with npm for package management. I also designed and implemented a RESTful back-end with a SQL database to store user authentication, game data, and score tracking. Additionally I integrated CoinGecko's APIs to retrieve real-time cryptocurrency data for consistent real-time data updates.
Now you can simulate making important financial decisions on Crypto tokens only using their name and logo. Just like a real Crypto trader!

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Media Review Central

          In this project I collaborated in a team of four in an Agile environment with weekly sprint planning and retrospectives, plus daily stand-ups to maintain alignment and consistent progress. Together we implemented responsive user interfaces with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, enabling users to submit, edit, and view movie reviews. I personally designed a RESTful API using Node.js and Express with MongoDB to support user authentication, store movie and review data, and facilitate CRUD operations.

This web aplication allows users to share reviews of their favorite movies with others.
Some features of the app include:
-Star Ratings with text reviews,
-like/dislike button on reviews,
-Tags on movie genre,
-Site top 10 Lists,
-Search / Explore pages,
-Bookmark/Favorites,
-Media image cover uploads,

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Javascript Calculator App

          This project was made using HTML, CSS, and vanilla Javascript. This calculator has +, -, +, /, %, and (+/-) features and is designed to dynamically adjust its size depending on device screen size. The calculator can handle many edge cases and some complex calculations.

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Portfolio Website

Here I built and deployed a responsive portfolio website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with Git-based automated deployment on Azure to support continuous deployment (CD).
This portfolio showcases my projects, skills, and experience. (Woah kind of breaking the 4th wall here, how meta!).

Blockchain Technology

I love blockchain technology as this innovation has completely blown me away with its ability to solve many of the unsolvable problems we have today. In March of 2021 I read the bitcoin whitepaper where I learnd that bitcoin is a “peer-to-peer network [that] timestamps transactions by hashing them into an ongoing chain of hash-based proof-of-work, forming a record that cannot be changed without redoing the proof-of-work” (Nakamoto, 2008). Immediatly I realized the potential for such a technology to revolutionize various industries improving their inclusivness, speed, relyability, and security. Around the same time I realized that, while bitcoin is a great proof of concept it is in no way scalable, the more users it has the worse the network performs so I knew there was still a lot of work to do to make these blockchains actually useful, but once the frameworks are inplace and the laws catch up, this tech has limitless potential.

For a detailed look into how blockchain works and the specific problems with bitcoin please read my full article.

Skate Boarding

Whether I'm crusing around campus on my neon blue penny board, or shredding the skatepark with my full-sized board I just love the feeling of freedom I get when riding my board. After so many years it honestly feels like an extention of my body, skateboarding feels just as natural as walking now.

Animation

As a kid one of my all time favorite passtimes was creating flipbook animations. Just being able to transition my creative ideas into moving images was so amazing to me. As I grew older I started adapting this hobby to start making simple digital animations. Eventually I moved onto more complex forms of animation with my favorite being 3D animations! Below is my very first digital animaition as well as a snippet of my latest project.