Connor Couetil
Senior Project in Cloud Computing
Designed Purdue CS 351's cloud computing curriculum: four AWS assignments scaling a fictional startup from MVP to Exit, delivered to 68 students.
- Drove 2,648+ submissions across 68 students.
- 31 of 41 surveyed students rated the course 4 or 5 (out of 5) on how much it improved their cloud-computing skills.
- Integrated with Purdue's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) to deliver AI features for both students (assignment support) and instructional staff.
- Operated a real production AWS stack (Django instructional API server on EC2, CloudFront, Cloudflare DNS) managed with Terraform and Ansible, for a $921.36 semester-long bill.
- Wrote four cloud assignments and 16 weekly reports (~34k words) on architecture, agentic coding, AWS billing, and student feedback, all published publicly.
- Senior Project Site.
react-social-icons
Maintain an open-source React.js package on NPM with 67,700+ weekly downloads and 446 GitHub stars.
- Took over from the original author in 2021 via an open call for a new maintainer.
- Shipped major releases v5 (2021) and v6 (2023). Closed 89 issues and merged 175 PRs.
- Reduced single-icon bundle size from 26.3kb to 1.5kb (94%) by implementing code-splitting using Rollup.
- Committed to API stability. Full test coverage of the public API and a CI matrix ensure no breaking changes.
- Grew the icon set from 25 to 60+ networks. Authored Inkscape-based contributor docs so the community can add icons.
- Built the CI/CD pipeline in GitHub Actions: tests, lints, checks bundlesize, and automates publishing.
- GitHub Repo and NPM Package.
resume
My open-source résumé, built using web technologies
- Styled with SASS and uses Webpack to compile all assets as an HTML bundle. Puppeteer then renders the résumé as a PDF. Convenient container definition using Docker.
- GitHub Repo and NPM Package.
caddy-gen
Open-source project using Caddy web server released on DockerHub and GitHub
- Proxies requests and pulls TLS certificates for Docker services by generating a Caddyfile using docker-gen and Go templates.
- Pushed features upstream, closing several issues and pull requests while adding tests, updating documentation, and fixing the Travis CI pipeline.
- GitHub Repo and DockerHub Repo.
EquineLungExperts.com
Designed responsive website enabling clients to request services from veterinarians
- Designed using Sketch and styled with SASS.
- Wrote marketing copy, created logo and other graphics.
- Next.js powered React front-end served by AWS Cloudfront with CI/CD using GitHub actions.
- Website URL and GitHub Repo.
aws-transcribe-audio
Open-source software to automatically transcribe audio files added to AWS S3 buckets
- Created for a podcast owner who wanted quick, cheap transcripts for their episodes.
- Go binary orchestrating AWS services (S3, Transcribe) targeting AWS Lambda runtime using Docker.
- Thorough documentation and CLI methods organized by Makefile to install, update, and remove the project from a specified AWS account.
- GitHub Repo
Babblenauts
Winner of "Most Inspirational" Hackathon project at NASA SpaceApps 2018 in NYC
- Voice control interface for OpenSpace, an open-source C++ project for visualizing the known universe and satellite data.
- Came up with initial idea, designed React.js front-end for controlling the interface, and implemented Speech Recognition API.
- GitHub Repo