Resumé
My name is Matthew Thomas Beck, and I am a Computer Science student attending the University of Texas at San Antonio
I love all things computers, be it working with hardware like single-board computers and microcontrollers, to artsy stuff, like this website you're viewing right now
I believe that the computer has been the most impactful thing not just in my life, but in all of our lives, and so that is why I believe it is so important to be 'good' at them...
Languages: Python (5yrs, proficient), JavaScript (3yrs, intermediate), C/C++ (2yrs, beginner), Java (2rs, beginner), SQL (4yrs, intermediate)
Cloud: AWS (EC2, Amplify, S3, SageMaker, Cognito, ECR, ECS, IAM, AWS CLI, AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, Billing and Cost Management)
Machine Learning: Recursive Neural Networks (LSTM), Convoluted Neural Networks (YOLO), Reinforcement Learning (PPO, SB3-TD3)
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL
Linux System Administration: Node, PM2, Yarn, Nginx, UFW, Fail2Ban, GeoIP, Serial Communications, TPU Utilization
Certificates: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, The Complete SQL Bootcamp: Go from Zero to Hero
Athena is a gait-adjusting, ai-powered robot dog that was trained in Isaac Sim and is powered with a Raspberry Pi 4 and an Intel Movidius NCS2; The physical parts were from the open-source ARES platform, designed by the talented:
ACM Rowdy Creators (August 2025-May 2026): As CTO of ACM Rowdy Creators, I helped students hands-on with their resumé projects and made workshops teaching cloud and AI technologies
Fractal Labs (May-August 2024): As a research intern for Fractal Labs, I read and summarized academic papers on machine learning and helped create a machine learning model
I used the foundations I built in the 'Building Athena' video to start training Athena to walk