Clayton Kruse
Hey, I'm Clayton. I am a Computer Science Major at The University of Missouri, Columbia.
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I started programing games on Scratch in elementary school. Inspired to program at an early age, I continued on to create numerous projects on the platform that far exceeded the scope of Scratch. These projects required complex understanding of Algebra, Trigonometry, and Physics.
In middle school, I spent a lot of time working with JavaScript and Node.JS. First, I made a basic realtime updating chat application with Socket.IO and Express. I contiuned on to make an online multiplayer browser game using the same libraries, hosted on Heroku. I ran a small flash games website that was used by many students in the school. I also started hosting a Minecraft server that is still online to this day.
In high school, I built multiple computers for my family, my friends, and myself. I created a Discord bot via Discord.JS. This bot also included a frontend written in React and had persistent functionality that I achieved with MongoDB and Mongoose. I also wrote a HTML proxy from scratch in JavaScript, before I realized there are easier solutions to bypass a blocklist.
I also made the switch from Windows to Unix-like operating systems in high school. I fiddled around with different Linux distributions until I settled on Arch. I also run some Linux machines at home, for personal self-hosted applications.
In college, so far I have been working on multiple web applications in SvelteKit. These applications have and PostgreSQL databases. These applications also include authentication functionality that I wrote myself.