Updated March 2025
I'm Hayden, and this is my website. 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 graduated from Mount Allison University in May 2025, where I earned a Bachelor of Science with first-class honours in computer science and a minor in mathematics. My thesis work was about applying ideas from theoretical computer science to the security of smart homes, and 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 Mount A'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. I enjoy the challenge of solving problems while working within constraints, which is why I like to program!
My other interests include amateur radio (my call is VE9WZ), learning German (I also speak English and French), theatre tech, listening to all kinds of music, playing electric and acoustic guitar, boardgames, LAN parties, Old School RuneScape, collecting calculators, watches, and lamps, tinkering with electronics and 3D printers, speed typing (I know it's weird), travelling/attempting to travel, visiting museums and art galleries, long drives, reading, and cooking. Many of these interests are represented in blog posts on this site.
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 4B, and since late 2024 from a Lenovo ThinkCentre M710Q. 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.