what's up!

I'm Gabe.

I'm a software engineering student at UNC Wilmington, and I like building things people actually use, from a note-taking app to a 3D editor written in C++.

Looking for a Summer 2027 internship

say hi github
Gabe Alvarado UNCW '28 Wilmington, NC

things I've built

SharkPad with lecture notes and a benzene ring sketch

SharkPad

150+ downloads

Notes, drawing, and voice dictation in one window, so you can take a lecture and sketch organic chemistry structures without switching apps. I built and shipped it solo.

  • Dictation runs offline on Whisper with faster-whisper, and the AI Teacher explains your notes through Groq's LLM API
  • GitHub Actions builds and releases it for Windows, Linux, and Mac (Apple Silicon and Intel)
PythonPySide6PyInstaller
sharkpad.netcode
RunBun Sandbox editor with three textured grass blocks in the scene

RunBun Sandbox

A 3D model viewer and editor I'm building from scratch in C++. Import FBX, glTF, or GLB, fly around with a first-person camera, and tweak each object's position, rotation, scale, and textures.

  • Custom OpenGL pipeline and GLSL shaders rendering into an editor viewport
  • Dear ImGui panels for the scene, objects, properties, and a console
  • Next up: peer-to-peer multiplayer editing in Rust with rust-libp2p
C++OpenGLAssimp
code
Ansible

Linux Migration at 45Drives

Part of a six-person team that moved 45Drives' Windows work environment over to Zorin OS Linux.

  • Wrote Ansible playbooks for tool installs and user accounts, deployed over SSH and Tailscale
  • Helped design it so a new machine is set up just by adding it to inventory and rerunning the playbook
AnsibleLinuxSSH

a bit more about me

right now

Digital Maker Space Assistant

UNC Wilmington, Aug 2026 to now

My main job is keeping the 3D printers running and fixing them when they break. I also print jobs from the queue using slicer software and help out anyone who comes into the makerspace.

school

UNC Wilmington

B.S. Software Engineering, May 2028

Isothermal Community College

Certificate in Programming and Game Design

stuff I work with
PythonC++JavaSQLJavaScriptHTML/CSSOpenGLGLSLDear ImGuiGLFWGLMAssimpPySide6LinuxAnsibleGitGitHub ActionsSSHTailscalePyInstallerClaude CodeCodexVS CodePyCharm

let's chat!

Hiring interns, working on something cool, or just want to talk code? Reach out.

emailgabeyshark76@gmail.com phone(828) 289-1497 resumedownload PDF
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