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Hello. I'm Aelly Alwardi.

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Here are some of my experiences.

Amazon Web Services

I interned at AWS during the summer of 2024 and 2025. At AWS I worked on Local Zones, a service used by Netflix, Epic Games, and many more. My project was an internal auditing tool that reduces response time to any incident involving a Local Zone.

University of Florida

I'm currently a student, graduating in May with my MS in CS. I also work as the Lead Teaching Assistant for the Information and Database Systems course for the College of Engineering, as well as an IT Analyst for the College of Education.

Freelancer

I also work as a freelance Software Developer and IT Technician. My services include but are not limited to Computer Repair, Web and App Development, and Server Management. A recent project was building an internal tool for St. Johns Data Consulting.

Here's a grab bag of past project of mine.

Some projects were for school and some were personal. I've marked them with and respectively. I also want to note that most of these projects are no longer being hosted / publically available. Upon request, I can temporarily revive a project if you'd like to try a demo of it.

Mt. Cepheus Trail

Unity, C#

This is a 2d adventure game that I developed in a team of 3. You play as Nate, a park ranger, trying to find a missing child on Mt. Cepheus Trail. As you wander into the forest you discover not everything is as it seems.

Self-Hosted Server

Linux/Unix, Docker, nginx

This is my self-hosting server project that started in my college dorm closet. I use it for to host various things, like this website and a Minecraft server.

Music Theory 101

Swift, SwiftUI, XCode

My winning app from Apple's 2023 Swift Student Challenge. This is an iPad app that had a virtual piano and taught basic music theory.


HydraBot

Python, Django, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, JS

The idea behind Hydrabot is that when a user interacts with an LLM there is no way to tell if the LLMs responses are factual or hallucinations. So, by having multiple LLMs respond to the same prompt, users would notice if any of them diverge in any meaningful way, signafying that something was wrong.

Space Scroller

Swift, SwiftUI, XCode

This app is still currently in progress, but this will be my submission for the Swift Student Challenge 2026. It allows the user to experience the true scale of the universe by taking a scroll through it

Cryptex

Swift, SwiftUI, XCode

In this app, users are able to do some basic encrypting/decrypting, mainly to sending private/sensitive messages. One bit I'm personally proud of from this submission was the inclusion of a compressing function that I devised on my own.

Cats!

Python, Django, MariaDB, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JS, JQuery

This project was developed to as a teaching tool for the Databases class I TA. It showed the use of a Database in a tech stack.

Sublet Matcher

Python, Flask, MySQL

With a team of 3, we developed a website that allowed local Gainesville residents to upload their current abode to find a subletter. I mainly worked on the backend using Flask in Python and MySQL.

Classroom Anomaly

Unity, C#

A project for a VR class, developed with a group of 4. We created an anomaly horror game. I mainly worked on the anomalies and level/game manager logic



Minesweeper

C++, SFML

A clone of Microsoft's Minesweeper, made entirely from scratch in C++ using SFML.



Automatic Plant Waterer

Arduino, ArduinoC

Using an Arduino and some hardware components, once a week this would activate a pump and servo to act like a sprinkler and water my plant.


Puzzle Box

PHP, MySQL, JQuery, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, JS

A simple website/puzzle I made for my Girlfriend. When all of the riddles were solved it revealed a key, which she could use to open a Cryptex and receive the gift inside.

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