Projects
Description and progress of Blueprint Projects
2023-2024
Asian American Dream (In-Progress expected to be completed by the end of 2024)
Project Description
AAD hosts an annual event where mentees can meet their potential mentors. At the end of the event, the mentees and mentors rank their preferences. AAD processes the mentor rankings manually, which takes over 48 hours of manual matching each year. The project aims to design a matching algorithm for AAD's KIN mentorship program and a directory that allows mentors and mentees to view each other's profiles.
Tools
NYC-Mesh (Completed)
NYC Mesh is an organization dedicated to bridging the digital divide in New York City by providing high-speed, reliable internet access. They host and build a neutral internet network that allows residents to connect without monitoring, data collection, or content blocking, preserving user privacy and autonomy.
Project Description
NYC Mesh manages and installs antennas to provide free internet service across the different boroughs in New York City. Each antenna produces an area of service availability called the sector lobe. The sector lobe points in the same direction as the antenna is directed; however, if the sector lobes of two different antennas overlap, they can cause interference, thereby reducing the service availability in the area. To manage this, we created a web application that lets NYC Mesh members modify the direction and frequencies of the antennas to verify that new installations do not break the service availability in certain areas.
Tools
Next.js, PostgreSQL
In-Reach (In-Progress expected to be completed by the end of 2024)
InReach has verified services for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, refugees and other immigrants, LGBTQ+ Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities, the transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) community, LGBTQ+ youth and their caregivers, and more LGBTQ+ communities.
Project Description
Revamp and modernize the current InReach website to visually align with the free mobile InReach app. Their current website is hosted using WordPress, which is causing latency, so the new project will have to provide an integrated management system (CMS) that allows non-technical InReach members to modify and update the website with reusable components.
Tools
TinaCMS, Vercel, React
2024-2025
Sarapis
Sarapis is an organization dedicated to empowering nonprofit and public sector entities by developing open-source technology solutions. It has been a leader in creating tools that promote open-source development, enabling better management, sharing, and accessibility of crucial data. Sarapis partnered with Open Referal to build and support the Human Services Data Standard (HSDS), enhancing how information about health, human, and social services is structured and exchanged.
Project Description
The project aims to create an open-source backend data administration interface for efficiently managing HSDS datasets. Unlike existing legacy tools such as ORServices, this new application will utilize a modular, service-based architecture that supports seamless integration with contemporary HSDS-supporting tools.
Tools
AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch React, Vite