Michael Foiani's Resume

Sc.M. in Computer Science from Brown University, 4.0 GPA Graduated 2024
Sc.B. in Computer Science & A.B. in Physics from Brown University, 3.94 GPA Graduated 2023

Awards: Alfred H. Joslin Award, Magna Cum Laude, and Departmental Honors

Specialties: UI/UX, HCI, Graphics, Computational Physics, Operating Systems

Owner - MFOI Consulting LLC, Naples FL July 2024 to Current

Deployed locally-hosted, secure, private, and cost-effective IT solutions on Proxmox Servers for small businesses and non-profits that replace monthly subscriptions and modernize infrastructure.
Migrate infrastructure like Apache and Ruby on Rails with Nginx and Next.JS to ensure future compatibility.
Made landing sites for advertisement purposes using either HTML/CSS or Vite+React/TailwindCSS.

Head Teaching Assistant - Brown University, Providence RI January 2022 to May 2024

Automated tasks and data pipelines in JavaScript (Google Apps Script), Node.js, and Python as the Head Teaching Assistant for two 400+ student and 50+ staff courses (incl. the largest UI/UX course in the U.S.).
Reverse engineered Gradescope's RESTful API using Postman to create a locally-hosted dockerized Node.js backend and TypeScript React frontend (with tRPC) that simplifies management of grading data for professors.
Revamped the main course website(s) CI/CD pipeline to include comprehensive tests for traversing links in GitHub Actions to ensure students would not access broken links.
Integrated UX Factor, a peer-to-peer grading system in vanilla JavaScript, removing 80% of manual grading.
Organized the creation and review of all course materials relating to HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, React, web accessibility, and UI/UX design.

Research Assistant - Prof. Van Dam's Graphics Lab, Brown University January 2022 to May 2023

Developed innovative features in Dash, a large TypeScript React hypermedia web app used by thousands.
Designed and implemented an efficient, interactive storytelling platform in Dash using a custom Typescript trie parser on MongoDB documents for my honors thesis, sponsored by and presented to Adobe and Figma.
Ported light video processing from the Node.js backend to the client using WebAssembly FFMPEG libraries, reducing heavy CPU usage and network load on the Azure server during peak hours.

Fullstack Software Engineer Intern - Tagg.Id, Palo Alto CA Summer 2021

Served as the main point of contact for cross-functional collaboration among the design, frontend, and backend engineering teams, determining feature integration feasibility.
Developed a touch-based video editing frontend for mobile devices in React Native with native GPU support to double editing performance and increase video resolution to native.

Watchdogs: a React frontend with a Java Spring and SQLite3 backend that takes data from the SEC on CEOs, determines related trades using PageRank, then displays the results graphically in an HTML canvas (code).
MAO-PWA: a progressive web app using Polymer3, Redux, and a Firebase backend to manage tutoring and signups for my high school's math team (code).
Brown's UIUX Course Website: led a team of 12 to design and develop a simple, lightweight, and accessible site in plain HTML, CSS, and JS used by hundreds of students. (site, code).
Simple AB Template: A local AB test stencil in vanilla JS using local browser storage (code).