# Peter Zhang — peterzhang.dev

> Personal portfolio of Peter Zhang, a University of Waterloo Computer Engineering student and software engineer building full-stack systems, AI tooling, developer tools, and game engines.

This is a single-page personal website. The section links below refer to parts of the same page. Consult the portfolio for the latest employment dates and project status.

Profile and experience:

- Third-year Computer Engineering student at the University of Waterloo, primarily working on software engineering projects.
- Building AI tooling part-time at Finks.AI, including automation, observability, and a sales operations platform. Listed tenure: May 2026–present.
- Software Engineering Intern on Owner.com's Guest App Platform, working on React Native, location confidence, mobile performance, and coding-agent workflows. Listed tenure: May 2026–present.
- Incoming Software Engineering Intern at Stripe for January–April 2027. This is an upcoming role, not completed work experience.
- Previously worked at Vidyard's Star Labs on AI video backgrounds and media pipelines, September–December 2025.
- Previously worked on graphics testing and CI/CD at QNX, January–April 2025, and cryptographic security tooling at BlackBerry, May–August 2024.
- Open to new graduate software engineering opportunities for 2028.
- Public contact email: p28zhang@uwaterloo.ca.

Portfolio projects:

- Charm: Self-hosted Discord assistant for voice-call recording, LLM meeting summaries, and semantic search, with a GPU scheduler sharing resources between Whisper and local LLM jobs. Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL/pgvector, Docker, and AWS S3.
- Storyline: Local-first, searchable video archive using transcription, speaker diarization, and LLM analysis, with desktop GPU processing and Raspberry Pi storage.
- Echo: Discord transcription chatbot with an asynchronous job queue and GPU-aware scheduling for Whisper and Ollama.
- StudyGarden: Real-time group study application using React, TypeScript, Redis, Google Cloud, and a Notion API integration.
- Desktop Pet: Python/PyQt5 desktop cat assistant. Ollama and productivity-app integrations are work in progress.
- Statemachine Assistant: Visual node-based state-code editor using Next.js, Flask, and ReactFlow.
- Personal Website: This portfolio, built with Next.js, TypeScript, and custom canvas visuals.
- Raytracer Engine: CPU raytracer written in C++ with multithreaded rendering, based on Ray Tracing in One Weekend.
- SoraGL: Python/OpenGL game engine powering a procedurally generated rogue-lite shooter.
- Daily Vibez: Raspberry Pi and Gemini-based daily vlog generator, built as a cuHacking submission.

## Portfolio

- [Home](https://peterzhang.dev/): Introduction and current focus.
- [About](https://peterzhang.dev/#about): Education, interests, and background.
- [Experience](https://peterzhang.dev/#experience): Roles, employment dates, technologies, and detailed accomplishments.
- [Projects](https://peterzhang.dev/#projects): Project descriptions, technology stacks, screenshots, and demos.
- [Contact](https://peterzhang.dev/#contact): Public contact channels and resume link.

## Profiles

- [GitHub](https://github.com/Ultrasword): Peter's repositories and public development activity.
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterzhang1/): Professional profile.

## Optional

- [Resume](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bBrkR5bxDKTjFjVTSRJjj0pu9sat_JeY/view?usp=drive_link): Resume linked from the portfolio.
- [Website source](https://github.com/Ultrasword/2026-05-10_personal-website-v3): Source repository for this version of the website.