Updated March 2025
I'm from beautiful New Brunswick, Canada. I'm a recent computer science grad, and am seeking work as a software developer while simultaneously considering going to grad school.
I hold a B.Sc. with first-class honours in computer science and a minor in math from Mount Allison University. My honours thesis was about applying ideas from theoretical computer science to the security of smart homes, and this work is set to be presented at the 19th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation in Tallinn, Estonia this July. While studying at Mount Allison, I worked as a teaching assistant and a research assistant.
I like to program. I was on my university's competitive programming team. The languages I use most are C, Java, and Python. I also know Racket (Lisp), C++ and JavaScript, as well as the BASH shell. I've dabbled in Rust, RISC-V assembly, Haskell and Fortran 95. The first language I ever learned was actually Lua when I was in elementary school, but I haven't used it in years. I host my projects on GitHub.
My other interests include amateur radio, learning German (I also speak English and French), theatre tech, listening to all kinds of music, playing electric and acoustic guitar, playing boardgames, LAN parties, Old School RuneScape, collecting calculators, watches, and lamps, tinkering with electronics and 3D printers, touch typing (I know it's weird), travelling/attempting to travel, visiting museums and art galleries, long drives, reading, and cooking.
I'm a member of various clubs, societies, and organizations. Off the top of my head, I'm a member of the International Society of Mad Scientists, Radio Amateurs of Canada, the Moncton Area Amateur Radio Club, International Repeater Group, and the Anglican Church of Canada. I have served on the executive of MtA Hacks, Mount Allison's hackathon, and I served as the founding president of the Mount Allison University Linux Users' Group.
This website is dedicated to my diverse interests and projects. I've had a website in some form since 2016, originally using a dodgy Russian hosting provider, then moving to GitHub Pages before I purchased this domain and started self-hosting on April 3rd, 2020. Since then, I've been hosting this website and a handful of other services, first from a Raspberry Pi, and since late 2024 from a Lenovo ThinkCentre. You can visit an archived copy of my site from 2017, written in atrocious HTML that I learned at school from a late-90s handout. I also wrote a blog post on the fifth anniversary of haywalk.ca, detailing the evolution of my websites through the years.
Thanks for visiting my site, and for taking the time to read this! Please contact me anytime.