Joshua Famous

Appian

2022-
Implementing a process mining platform using Java, Python, and Appian SAIL as a software engineer with Appian.

Nittany AI Alliance

2021-2023
Worked as project lead and NLP engineer implementing an AI system to process more than 100,000 annual admissions to Penn State. Managed communication with stakeholders and organized the team's work.

Lockheed Martin

2020-2022
Two years of internship experience at Lockheed Martin in a full-stack software development role. This included work with a MEAN stack, Java, and cloud technologies in an Agile work environment.

Maverick Software Systems

2018-2020
Helped to build logistics software for the medical device industry as software developer for a startup company based out of Penn State.

Pennsylvania State University

2019-2022
Bachelor's in Computer Science
Summa Cum Laude

Pennsylvania State University

2022-2023
Master's of Eng. in Computer Science
4.00 GPA

2nd Place, ACRP Design Competition

AI Excellence Award

Best Prototype Presentation

Eagle Scout

Outstanding Male Technology Student

President's Freshman Award

Presidential Scholar Candidate

National Merit Scholar

2nd/3rd TSA Nationals, Software Development

My teams placed 2nd and 3rd in the 2017/2019 national Technology Student Association software development event, competing against teams from across the world.

TSA National Finals

My teams were also finalists in the Coding, Cybersecurity, and Website Design events at the 2017/2018/2019 national TSA conferences.

Java

Experience across various roles including common design patterns and OOP fundamentals

JavaScript (Node/Express/Socket)

Experience with JS for web applications, cybersecurity challenges, and other personal projects

HTML/CSS

Frontend development, web applications, freelance web design

PHP

Course projects, competitive projects, web application development

Angular/Vue/React

Working extensively with these frameworks at Appian, internships, personal projects

C

Graduate studies focus in OS topics, implementing unikernels and bootloaders

Python

Building a Process Mining platform at Appian using Python, also machine learning applications, coding competitions, many college courses

Agile

Extensive experience working on & leading Agile teams, Scrum & Kanban methods

Machine Learning

Project lead in NLP & OCR project, courses in general AI, term project work with Transformers, RNNs, CNNs, capstone use of YOLO, ResNet models, personal work with generic algorithms

C#, C++

Use of C# in Unity development, working with Xamarin, use of C++ for course projects in queueing theory

Cloud Technology

Have worked to support and implement Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm support for applications following a microservice architecture

Technical Presentation

Winner of the 2020 speaking contest for engineers at Penn State, mentor for technical presentation and the assertion evidence method

Khan the Tetris AI

Khan is a genetic algorithm built to play Tetris, relying on four primary heuristics. The live version of Khan has undergone about 200 hours of learning and population control to finally reach near Tetris mastery.

Pylon the Starcraft AI

Pylon is a genetic algorithm built to play Starcraft using a weighted queue by various heuristics. This is implemented and trained using the python-sc2 api client library.

ChapterSweet (2018)

While serving as president of my local Technology Student Association chapter I built a comprehensive suite of web-based tools to manage TSA chapters which has supported the state's largest chapter since 2017.

Picturesque (2018)

A party game where users respond to prompts by choosing pictures from their camera rolls. Each round one player is the judge and chooses which player's picture they feel best represents the prompt.

NapkinSpace (2017)

A real-time collaborative online brainstorming solution. Napkinspace provides easy-to-use functionality for teams to share ideas on a browser-based whiteboard with incredible speed and responsiveness.

Code Magic (2016)

A 2D video game to teach elementary school kids the basics of programmatic logic as wizards in a fantasy world.

Sorcerer Divorce Lawyer (2024)

Help a wannabe Bard turned Divorce Lawyer use Sorcery and rhythm to equally divide assets between clients. Made in 96 hours as an entry to GMTK Game Jam 2024.

Battle Polo (2018)

Play through the singleplayer story mode to win your freedom from the British colony on the moon in a series of futuristic polo matches, compete with your friends in multiplayer polo games, or play the challenges to earn new characters and abilities. This is Battle Polo!

The Greatest Game of All Time (2019)

When a technology student's time machine project goes horribly awry, the player must travel through time and space to set things right and restore the inventions that defined the future.

Golf Anywhere (2017)

Exercise your desire to play golf in the places you know you shouldn't. A restaurant, an arcade, a classroom, a museum, your own bathroom.

Rich Man's War (2015)

A turn-based game about a nuclear arms race. Choose either a pre-defined scenario or randomly select cities and fight to be the last one standing in nuclear armageddeon.

Space Game (2014)

An open world multiplayer game where users control ships and explore an open world. They can trade resources between planets, harvest asteroids for metals, or fight one another.

On-Site 2019

My team of four was given 24 hours to complete this animation, given the on-site prompt of a "living wall". Our result is a journey through history synced to Beethoven's 5th symphony.

The Inventor's Workshop

After an inventor leaves for the day, his workshop and creations come to life.

The Greatest Dab

My partner and I were given 3 hours to produce an original animation defining a character with only one motion. The result is the greatest dab ever produced in 3 hours.