Brandon Pacheco

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Stockton University, Galloway NJ

Designed and implemented a full-stack chess application using React.js, Express.js, and Spring Boot, featuring a custom built chess engine for backend game processing
Implemented login/register microservice using Express.js and MongoDB for user authentication, and utilized Spring Boot with MySQL to manage and validate chess games.
Developed Restful APIs for user session management, chess game interactions, move validation, and game state updates
Implemented custom react context providers like UserProvider and GameProvider to manage user authentication, game initialization, and state persistence across sessions

Developed a fully functional chess engine that implements standard chess rules and logic using Java and Object-Oriented Programming principles
Utilized a listener pattern to update game state between the engine and the user interface, enabling smooth user experience and game interaction
Ensured modularity and extensibility by designing separate classes for each piece type that override movement methods from a base Piece class
Wrote unit tests to validate chess logic, including edge cases like illegal moves and endgame scenarios

Developed a fully functional sudoku solver that implements constraint satisfaction techniques using C#
Implemented AC-3, Forward Checking, and Constraint Propagation to reduce the solution space dynamically
Integrated ordering heuristics such as Most Constrained Variable
Implemented unit tests using NUnit to ensure the correctness of the Sudoku solving algorithm

Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Artifical Intelligence, Data Structures & Algorithms, Software Engineering, Data Mining

Languages: Java, C#, Python, SQL, HTML/CSS/Javascript
Frameworks and Libraries: React.js, Express.js, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Flask
Tools: Git, Docker, Bruno(API Client), Gradle, JUnit, NUnit, Mockito, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio 2022, Visual Studio Code