Blog & Articles

Stories, experiences, and lessons learned along the way. By Joseph Davis Chamdani.

• The Day My SSL Auto-Renewal Quietly Died — My VPS renewed its own certificates every night for months. Then one alert told me three sites were about to expire, and the answer I was confident about turned out to be wrong. (7 min read)
• Designing an AI System for Transfer Credit Evaluation — The system design behind our hackathon-winning tool that parses WA community college transcripts and maps courses to UW equivalents. (6 min read)
• My Journey: From Jakarta to UW — How I moved from Indonesia to Seattle at 15, skipped two years of high school, and made it to the University of Washington as a junior in Informatics. (6 min read)
• IShowStream: AI That Reads Twitch Chat — A feature on IShowStream, our five-agent system that reads Twitch chat in real time so streamers never miss a moment. Written by my teammate Juwita Jessica Pangestu. (4 min read)
• BC Hacks 2024 Lecture — After helping organize and launch BC Hacks 2024, I was invited to give a lecture at Bellevue College about how to run a successful hackathon. This session was specially arranged for a group of 20+ Korean exchange students visiting from Korea. (5 min read)