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Austin-Metke/README.md

Hey 👋, I'm Austin

💻 Software Engineering Student at CSU Monterey Bay | 🚀 Building Cross-Platform Apps, RESTful APIs & Low-Level Systems | 🎯 Seeking SWE Opportunities for 2026

I'm a senior CS student with hands-on experience building cross-platform mobile apps, RESTful APIs, and low-level systems. I bring research experience, open-source contributions, and a strong work ethic — and I'm looking for my next software engineering opportunity.

🌐 Connect with Me

LinkedIn GitHub Portfolio

⚡ Featured Projects

  • 🕹️ DMG-J — Game Boy Emulator
    A Game Boy emulator written in Java featuring Z80 CPU emulation, ROM loading, memory mapping (MBC1), GPU scanline rendering, and an interactive debugger UI.

  • 📊 Expense Tracker
    A cross-platform mobile app (Flutter + Firebase) built for a construction company client.
    ➡️ Employees log expenses, upload receipt photos, and view spending by category with interactive charts. Includes Cloud Functions for backend logic.

  • ☁️ RESTful API Backend
    A Java backend service with Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, and Docker containerization.
    ➡️ Deployed to Heroku with CI pipeline. Includes SQL schema design, integration tests, and Docker Compose for local dev.

  • 📱 Mobile App (React Native / Expo)
    A cross-platform mobile app built with React Native, Expo, and TypeScript.
    ➡️ Features file-based routing, automated testing with Jest, and a modern component architecture.

  • 🎮 m-overlay — Open-Source Contribution
    Contributed to bkacjios' m-overlay, a controller input overlay for the Dolphin emulator used by speedrunners.
    ➡️ Added support for several new games by reverse-engineering controller input memory addresses.

  • 🌐 DynamicDNS-Spigot — Namecheap Integration
    Contributed Namecheap DNS support to an open-source dynamic DNS plugin for Minecraft Spigot servers.
    ➡️ Extended the DDNS service logic and implemented XML response parsing for automated domain updates.

🛠️ Languages

Java Dart TypeScript JavaScript Python C# SQL Lua HTML CSS

📦 Frameworks & Libraries

Flutter React Native Expo Spring Boot Node.js Firebase

🔧 Tools & Platforms

Git Docker Linux Bash Heroku Google Cloud PostgreSQL MySQL Figma

💡 Practices

REST API Design · Test-Driven Development · Agile / Scrum · CI/CD · Open-Source Collaboration

🎯 What I'm Focusing On

  • Seeking software engineering internships & entry-level roles for 2026
  • Building cross-platform apps with Flutter and React Native
  • Designing and deploying RESTful APIs with Spring Boot & Docker
  • Exploring low-level systems through emulator development

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  1. Blackjack-JS Blackjack-JS Public

    A trivial blackjack game written in JavaScript

    JavaScript

  2. DMG-J-DEV DMG-J-DEV Public

    Java

  3. expense_tracker expense_tracker Public

    A cross-platform Flutter app that tracks company expenses

    Dart

  4. Steve-Tech/DynamicDNS-Spigot Steve-Tech/DynamicDNS-Spigot Public

    A dynamic DNS plugin for Spigot

    Java 5 2