Advay.dev

About Me

Hi, I'm Advay

I'm a Computer Scientist based in Vancouver, focused on game development, software engineering, and 3D art. I enjoy building things that sit at the intersection of technical depth and visual craft.

This site collects my games, projects, 3D models, shaders, and pixel art.

Work Experience

Software Developer Co-op

Teck Resources Limited | Jan 2024 – Aug 2024

  • Designed and deployed C# observability features (structured logging, alerting) for production data pipelines, cutting mean time-to-detect failures by 15 minutes per incident
  • Built and maintained ETL pipelines ingesting high-volume mining and environmental data from multiple sources (SQL, NoSQL, REST APIs) into Azure cloud infrastructure
  • Provisioned and version-controlled Azure data infrastructure (Storage Accounts, Event Hubs) using Terraform
  • Diagnosed and extended internal Grafana dashboards, increasing monitoring coverage across pipeline stages and accelerating root-cause analysis

Software Engineer in Test Co-op

LifeBooster | Jan 2023 – Apr 2023

  • Implemented automated UI and unit test suites for a workplace safety motion-capture platform using Cypress and JUnit
  • Automated visual regression testing via pixel-level image diffing to validate posture and movement graph rendering, eliminating a category of manual QA effort
  • Eliminated integration test failures from ~50% to ~0% by profiling the local test environment, cutting deployment time by 30+ minutes

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

University of British Columbia, CPSC121 — Models of Computation | Jan 2022 – Dec 2023

  • Facilitated 3 weekly in-person labs for groups of 20 students, delivering hands-on instruction in circuit design and propositional logic
  • Mentored students one-on-one through complex logical proofs and mathematical reasoning, adapting explanations across multiple problem-solving approaches

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science

University of British Columbia | Sep 2021 – May 2025

  • Relevant coursework: Computer Graphics, Video Game Programming

Bachelor of Science in Management with Finance

University of Warwick | Oct 2018 – Jul 2021

Skills & Tools

  • Languages: C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, C, HTML, CSS, SQL
  • Frameworks: OpenGL, ThreeJS, React, Node.js, JUnit, Swing, Cypress, pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Terraform
  • Tools: Unity, Blender, Git, JIRA, CosmosDB, Azure, Procreate