I am an honors New Grad from the University of California Santa Barbara with a degree in Computer Science. I love to pick up creative side projects in my spare time to build my programming skills, and here are a few of my favorites.

You Can view my personal website / online portfolio at https://nickjohnsonucsb.github.io.

If you are a Spotify user, I highly recommend you try it out! https://nickjohnsonucsb.github.io/utune It has been officially recognized by Spotify and it is free to use by all!

• Used Node.js and React with Spotify’s authentication workflow to ingest the Spotify Web API and display personalized account insights and analytics with responsive graphics.

You may not have access to this repo anymore: https://github.com/ucsb-cs148-w23/project-t01-cookbooksocial, but this is an app I also recommend for you to visit! The deployment is currently on Heroku here: https://cookbook-social.herokuapp.com/home.

• Node.js, Express, and React with Google’s OAuth to create a social media application to make friends and to post, share, and save recipes. Using Firebase’s non relational database: Firestore and Cloud Storage for multimedia content.

• https://github.com/tiny-babies/generative_image_extension
• This is a must see project I did for an Advanced Computer Vision Graduate Course I took at my university.
• Utilized a complicated ML model called DeepFill v2 to extend its capabilities to generate novel extentions of images.

• YelpCamp: A mock web application of Yelp for camping: https://github.com/tiny-babies/YelpCamp
• VaxMan: A 2D Videogame made from Python Pygame that stems from PacMan: https://github.com/tiny-babies/VaxMan
• University Course Search Web App with Spring Boot and React: https://github.com/ucsb-cs156-w22/team03-w22-5pm-2
• Bloom Filter advanced data structure: https://github.com/tiny-babies/cs130a-pa1