Jake Dickinson

Software Engineer Intern, Gaming Division · Honolulu, HI

• Rebuilt cockpit UI with separate simulation, shared state, input, and rendering layers to keep panels synchronized and prevent direct input-driven changes to game state.
• Converted static buttons into more than 10 interactive cockpit panels covering navigation, combat, engineering, strategic, and security systems for a recreation of Star Fleet II Deluxe.
• Implemented shields, hyperspace travel, boarding, surrender, and interrogation mechanics based on the game manual, with behavioral tests and a headless rendering harness.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Coursework: Software Engineering, Algorithms, Database Systems, Data Networks, Design for Mobile Devices, Game Design, Virtual & Augmented Reality Programming, Discrete Mathematics, Operating Systems

Independent web project

React, TypeScript, Vite, Playwright, axe-core, Vercel

• Built and deployed an interactive museum of 24 web exhibits across four galleries with full-text search, filtering, random discovery, shareable URLs, responsive layouts, and accessible native dialogs.
• Created original interactive CSS/SVG previews with no third-party browsing requests and added Playwright coverage for responsive layouts, navigation history, sharing, failure handling, keyboard behavior, and automated accessibility checks.

Capstone with MITRE's OT Cybersecurity Engineering team

Python, Linux, BACnet/IP, BACpypes, Matplotlib, MITRE Caldera for OT

• Collaborated directly with MITRE's OT Cybersecurity Engineering team to build a software-only BACnet/IP server-room HVAC simulator for Caldera for OT red/blue-team and cyber-physical testing.
• Implemented writable BACnet control points, PI-controlled temperature and chiller dynamics, sensor noise, actuator lag, emergency-stop behavior, and a real-time HMI; developed and validated the integration in Linux virtual machines.

Client project with Spire

TypeScript, Next.js, React, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Vercel

• Worked with a local firm on an eight-person team to turn layered Excel financial models into a web portal, matching calculations to the cent against the original spreadsheets.
• Led versioned stress testing: designed schemas, built Prisma-backed API endpoints, and created an interface for saving and reloading models, with memoization to keep projections responsive.

Club discovery portal for UH Mānoa

Next.js, React, Prisma, GitHub Actions, Playwright

• Built search APIs for clubs by title and interests across a database of more than 100 organizations, and wrote a Python script to turn university spreadsheet data into JSON for ingestion.
• Set up GitHub Actions to run Playwright tests on merges to main, and contributed role-based access logic and shared React components.

Team project in graph algorithms

Python, Graph Algorithms

• Led development on a three-person team to model island travel routes as a directed, weighted graph, adapting Dijkstra's algorithm to balance travel time and population priorities.
• Designed a knowledge-sharing algorithm that prioritized visits using distance, population, skill gaps, and recency to support resource and knowledge distribution between islands.

Graph analysis tool

Python, NetworkX

• Used graph traversal and dynamic filtering to identify influential users in social network data, with visualizations of centrality and community structure.

2D adventure game

C#, Unity

• Built object interaction, physics, and scene transitions in Unity, refining level design and game feel through playtesting.