Asray Gopa

• Built and deployed 3 full-stack applications (Node.js + Spring Boot), saving teams 100+ hours per week
• Implemented chaos engineering on AWS, reducing downtime risk by 20%+ while optimizing cloud spend
• Supported data and disaster recovery strategies protecting actuarial models underpinning billions in assets

• Cut artifact reconciliation time by 30% via unified certification workflow system
• Reduced engineering errors by ~25% with graph-based traceability and baseline management
• Increased requirement coverage visibility by 40% with a Next.js impact visualization frontend

• Prototyped decentralized ML models in Python for scalable multi-task learning
• Applied spectral clustering and graph algorithms, boosting accuracy 15% in benchmarks
• Deployed distributed training on AWS EC2, achieving 30% faster convergence

• Designed deep learning models for wireless spectrum data, improving signal detection by 25%
• Built LoRAMesh sensor hub using ML and computer vision to detect crop health and pests
• Automated data ingestion and hardware setup, cutting manual work by 40+ hours/week

Investigating Continuous Thought Machines as an alternative to Transformers for reasoning over real-time financial orderbook streams. Comparing CTMs vs Transformers on Bitcoin price prediction tasks.

Designed and launched a compact physical organizational tool from concept to market. Handled 3D printing, laser cutting, manufacturer partnerships, and social media marketing. Sold to hundreds of customers.

Built herdright.com — a marketplace connecting farmers with bovine reproductive material using React, AWS, and Edge Functions. AI matching, Stripe payments, real-time listings. Led a team of four.

Built a daily news service delivering stories in under 50 words. Grew to 2.9M annual readers. Built an Expo app using LLMs for automated journalism.

Founded a financial literacy org reaching 25,000+ monthly. Led a team of 40 creators, writers, marketers, and designers. Spoke on podcasts, student magazines, and articles.

1. Scalar News (iOS) — AI-powered personalized news summaries in under 50 words. Grew to 2.9M annual readers.

2. The Brik — Minimalist physical wallet I took from concept to market: 3D printing, laser cutting, manufacturing, and marketing. Sold to hundreds of customers.

3. Pippa (iOS & Android) — Gamified nutrition app with virtual pet care instead of calorie tracking.

4. TAS — Tile Assembly Simulator — A modernized simulator for algorithmic tile self-assembly. source

5. Encore — Offline-first Bluetooth-mesh group chat for live events. Native iOS & Android, no servers, no accounts, no internet.

the-brik.com — Minimalist wallet, designed and sold to hundreds of customers.

safebite.suppersquad.app — Allergen-friendly digital menu builder for restaurants.

herdright.com — Bovine reproductive material marketplace with AI matching and Stripe.

Scalar News (iOS) — AI-powered personalized news summaries. 2.9M annual readers.

FloorFace (iOS) — Pushup counter: tap your nose to the screen to count reps.

Pippa (iOS) — Gamified nutrition app with virtual pet care instead of calorie tracking.

waveshare_transparent_screen_driver (PyPI) — Raspberry Pi driver for Waveshare Transparent OLED. Built because Waveshare didn't ship working Pi code.

rpi_cv2 (PyPI) — Automatic Raspberry Pi camera driver for OpenCV. No driver setup, no manual commands — just import and go.

zipcode_distance (npm) — Distance calculation and proximity lookup between ZIP codes.

city-state-country-please (npm) — Location autocomplete with fuzzy search and Levenshtein correction.

Encore — Offline-first Bluetooth-mesh group chat for live events. Native iOS & Android on the bitchat mesh, themeable via signed QR event packs. No servers, no accounts, no internet.

ezCAD — Browser CAD app with a Shapr3D-inspired interface and an AI copilot. Sketch, extrude, boolean, pattern, and export STL/SVG/DXF.

GitPhotos (iOS) — Google-Photos-style app that uses your own GitHub account as free photo storage with auto-sync.

Pippa (Android) — Android port of Pippa, the gamified nutrition app with virtual pet care instead of calorie tracking.

step2stl — Converts STEP CAD files to STL triangle meshes via the OpenCASCADE kernel, from CLI or Python.

stl2drawings — Turns an STL into wireframe, patent-style drawings — visible edges solid, hidden edges dashed.

tools-cli — Local CLI toolkit for image utilities: background removal, QR codes, and more. No more online tools.

betterforms — Forms builder that lets users answer by speaking instead of typing, with better completion analytics.

blur.com — Privacy tool that blurs faces and eyes in images/video and redacts sensitive info in PDFs, using custom CV models.

Hackathon Agent Skills — Seven Claude Code agent skills that play the hackathon meta-game so your team can just build. Built for MLH.

ApexNurse — AI nurse assistant with speech recognition and multilingual translation. SwanHacks 2025 (3rd).

ProfAI — Real-time lecture accent translation + AI study assistant querying Canvas, YouTube, Drive. CalHacks 12.0.

FarmVigil — Computer vision cattle disease detector. 96% precision. SMS alerts to farmers.

VetU — AI veterinary telehealth via image recognition. BuildDSM Best Pitch/Demo + 2nd Place.

BusinessCofounder — AI co-founder matching platform. AWS Bedrock. HackMidwest 2024 (3rd).

ScamShield — Live phone scam detector using fine-tuned BERT classifier.

Forex Arbitrage — Graph-based arbitrage detection in live currency markets with ML sentiment layer.

CTM vs Transformers — Comparing Continuous Thought Machines vs Transformers on live Bitcoin orderbook data.

RustBitcoinWallet — Bitcoin wallet from scratch in Rust.

PitchPost — Collegiate pitch competition platform. Next.js. Ivy Hackathon 2025 (3rd).

CyDine — ISU dining app with meal recs and calorie tracking. Best App + Best Project (COM S 3090).

ARuLearning — AR anatomy education via device camera. SwanHacks 2024.

MedListen — Translates medical reports into plain-language audio for patients.

WhistleGuard — Student safety app: emergency whistle, 911, virtual escort, fake call AI.

Collins Aerospace CM System — Cross-tool traceability for aerospace. Flask, Neo4j, Next.js. details

ISU Course Calendar Maker — Exports ISU schedules to Outlook since Workday won't.

ISU Course Seat Monitor — Alerts you when a course seat opens up.

CodeDocuGen — VS Code extension that auto-generates docs using Hugging Face NLP.

githelper — CLI tool to streamline git workflows.

ideas-api — REST API for curating random ideas, hosted on Raspberry Pi via Tailscale.

Saftinet Insurance Card Generator — Automates insurance card creation.

ColoringMindsRecordKeepingSystem — After-school art class management: attendance, fees, automated emails.

Big Nate Scraper — Reverse-engineered GoComics to save Big Nate strips after the paywall.

Gopa Language — English-like programming language for beginners, capable of APIs and servers.

scratch-NN-digits — Neural net from scratch for handwritten digit classification.

SpotifyMLStatsReccoPop — ML-based song recommendations from listening stats.

Old School Egg Catcher — Vintage Nintendo egg-catching game my mom used to play.

DaveBluntsNoCookies — A React web app. No further explanation needed.

tqr — Terminal QR code generator in Rust.

stake-blackjack-helper — Blackjack odds helper.

2048 — 2048 implementation.

ConsoleSnakeGameMac — Snake in the terminal.

autofrickinggoogledocstyper — Automates typing into Google Docs.

promo-collector — Aggregates promo deals.

KnightShift Chess Engine — C

AsrayCShellYay — Custom Unix shell in C

SQLMiniDB — Minimal SQL database engine in C++

OverEngineeredPasswordManager — C++

LEGV8 Disassembler — LEGv8 ISA disassembler in C

RustRedditPlotBot — Reddit data scraper and plotter in Rust

Drone Fleet Motion Planning — A* pathfinding through 3D environments in Python

Student Government (2022–2025)
LAS Senator, UROC Senator, Legislative Ambassador, UROC Council President and VP. Made a lot of changes and got projects done. Had to quit when it got less about helping students and more about helping friends in the org.

Algorithmic Trading Club President (2025–2026)
Restarted the club with Arjun Patel. Rocky start but proud of where it's going.

Oak-Elm Hall Council President (2022)

Solar Car Team — Software, Strategy, Business (2022–2024)
Learned teamwork and project management. Great people. Shoutout Nick.

Start Something LAS Academy Fellow (2023–2025)
Probably the best thing I did at ISU. Learned real entrepreneurship from Jeff Bull and others.

CS Advisory Board Chair (2025–2026) / Member (2024–2025)
As chair, changed how we give feedback to the department. No holding back.

CyRide Board of Trustees — Student and Mayoral Appointee (2024–2025)
I LOVE CYRIDE. Elected member, got commended by the mayor.

ISUPD Advisory Board (2022–2024) — Discussed fire and e-scooter safety with Chief Newton.

President's Leadership Class (2022–2025) — Learned from President Wintersteen. Real leadership comes from experience though.

Sigma Nu Tau (2025, lifetime) — Entrepreneurship honor society. Got free money from it.

Cardinal Key (2025, lifetime) — Forgot I applied and didn't pay fees. They inducted me anyway. No idea why.