SOT.toml

[metadata]
firstName = "Herschel"
lastName = "Pawar"
headerQuote = [
  "Passionate about learning and creating; Looking forward to whatever the future brings.",
  "I occasionally write! Check out my blog and more details at https://sakurakat.systems/",
]
awesomeColor = "red"
profilePhoto = "/src/photo.png"
varLanguage = "en-US"
varEntrySocietyFirst = false
varDisplayLogo = true
cvFooter = "Curriculum vitae"
letterFooter = "Cover Letter"

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homepage = "sakurakat.systems"
phone = "+91 83107 83472"
github = "pawarherschel"
linkedin = "pawarherschel"
email = "pawarherschel@sakurakat.systems"
orcid = "0009-0003-3218-801X"

[[certificates]]
date = "1st - 26th July 2024"
title = "Certificate of Participation in Coventry University Summer Schools Games Design Programme"
issuer = "Shawnna Pomeroy (Programme Manager - Summer Schools)"
url = "https://r2.sakurakat.systems/covuni-s-school.pdf"
location = "Coventry University, United Kingdom"

[[certificates]]
date = "1st - 26th July 2024"
title = "Certificate of Participation in Coventry University's School of Computing, Mathematics and Data Science Summer School in Game Development"
issuer = "Adam Worrallo (Head of Summer School), Faye Mitchell (Head of School), Becky Butler (Dean of College)"
url = "https://r2.sakurakat.systems/covuni-gamedev.pdf"
location = "Coventry University, United Kingdom"

[[education]]
title = "Global Summer School"
society = "Coventry University"
date = "1st July 2024 - 26th July 2024"
location = "CU Coventry, 8 Mile Lane, Coventry CV1 2TU, United Kingdom"
logo = "src/logos/covuni.jpg"
description = []

[[education]]
title = "Bachelors of Engineering in Information Technology"
society = "University of Mumbai"
date = "2020 - 2024"
location = "MGM College of Engineering and Technology, Kamothe, Navi Mumbai, India"
logo = "src/logos/mgmcet.jpeg"
description = []

[[education]]
title = "Higher Secondary School Certificate"
society = "Central Board of Secondary Education"
date = "2018 - 2020"
location = "Greenfingers Global School, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, India"
logo = "src/logos/gfgs.png"
description = []

[[education]]
title = "Secondary School Certificate"
society = "Indian Certificate of Secondary Education"
date = "2008 - 2018"
location = "Sanjivani International School, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, India"
logo = "src/logos/sis.png"
description = []

[[projects]]
description = [
  "\"Fractured Elements\" is a 2D platformer developed for Coventry University's Summer School Game Jam.",
  "The main character changes form every few seconds and each form has a unique associated attack.",
  "Available to play on itch.io (https://pawarherschel.itch.io/fractured-elements)",
  "My contribution: Worked on game mechanics, character transitions, and attack implementations using Unity and CSharp",
]
visible = true
title = "Fractured Elements"
society = "Coventry University Summer School '24 Game Jam"
date = "July 2024"
tags = ["Game Development", "Unity", "C#"]
preview = "https://r2.sakurakat.systems/covuni-experience-banner.jpg"
[projects.location]
github = "pawarherschel/CovUniGJ2024"

[[projects]]
preview = "https://r2.sakurakat.systems/preview--cosmos-conquerors.png"
visible = true
title = "Cosmos Conquerors (GMTK2023)"
society = "GMTK2023 Game Jam"
date = "2023"
description = [
  "A game made for the GMTK Game Jam 2023, the theme was 'Roles Reverse'.",
  "This is a simple game where the roles from the game Space Invaders are reversed.",
  "Available to play on itch.io (https://pawarherschel.itch.io/cosmos-conquerors)",
  "My contribution: The whole game.",
]
tags = ["Game Development", "Godot", "GDScript"]
[projects.location]
github = "pawarherschel/GMTK2023"

[[projects]]
visible = true
title = "Bevy Pong"
society = "Personal Project"
date = "October 2024"
description = [
  "A simple Pong game made with Bevy. It's being used as playground for networking.",
  "My contribution: The whole game.",
]
tags = ["Rust", "Bevy", "Game Development"]
preview = "https://r2.sakurakat.systems/preview--bevy-pong.png"
[projects.location]
github = "pawarherschel/bevy-pong"

[[projects]]
visible = false
title = "Various Simple Games made in Godot"
society = "Personal Projects"
date = "2021"
description = [
  "Various simple games made in Godot as Proof of Concepts for learning purposes",
  "Includes Jump Cat, Meme Invaders, Maze Generation, Pop The Lock, Magical Marshmellow, Game Of Life, Minesweeper, Pong, Snake",
  "Available at https://github.com/SakuraKat",
  "My contribution: Developed all the games in Godot",
]
tags = ["Godot", "GDScript"]
preview = "https://r2.sakurakat.systems/preview--sakurakat.png"
[projects.location]
github = "SakuraKat"

[[projects]]
visible = false
title = "VRCX Insights"
society = "Personal Project"
date = "2023 - Present"
description = [
  "A simple program to find out the various friend circles which might exist via the data collected by VRCX",
  "Written in Rust, it uses the SQLite database created by VRCX to find out the friend circles",
  "My contribution: Implemented data-mining algorithms in Rust",
]
tags = ["Data Mining", "Rust", "SQLite", "SQLx", "tokio"]
preview = "https://r2.sakurakat.systems/preview--vrcx-insights-resized-0.25.jpg"
[projects.location]
github = "pawarherschel/vrcx-insights"

[[projects]]
visible = false
title = "Booth Archiver"
society = "Personal Project"
date = "2023 - Present"
description = [
  "A simple CLI tool to archive the contents of your booth wishlist. It scrapes the data and compiles it into an Excel spreadsheet for ease of use.",
  "My contribution: Developed scraping logic, implemented Excel sheet generation",
]
tags = ["Web Scraping", "Rust", "Rayon", "ureq", "Excel"]
preview = "https://r2.sakurakat.systems/preview--booth-archiver.png"
[projects.location]
github = "pawarherschel/booth_archiver"

[[projects]]
visible = false
title = "Real-Time WebSocket Synchronization with Durable Objects"
society = "Personal Project"
date = "December 2024"
description = [
  "This repository contains a Cloudflare Workers project that demonstrates the use of Durable Objects to synchronize WebSocket connections.",
  "It allows clients to send messages to increment, decrement, or get the current value of the counter, and broadcasts the updated counter value to all connected clients.",
  "My contribution: Built the WebSocket logic, integrated Durable Objects, and ensured real-time synchronization among multiple clients.",
]
tags = [
  "Cloudflare Workers",
  "Durable Objects",
  "WebSocket",
  "TypeScript",
  "Real-time Communication",
  "Serverless",
]
preview = "https://r2.sakurakat.systems/preview--workers-websocket-durable-objects.png"
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github = "pawarherschel/workers-durable-object-websocket-synced"

[[projects]]
visible = false
title = "Brainfuck Compiler with Cranelift"
society = "Personal Project"
date = "November 2024"
description = [
  "Following a blogpost https://rodrigodd.github.io/2022/11/26/bf_compiler-part3.html",
]
tags = ["Brainfuck", "Compiler", "Cranelift", "Rust"]
preview = "https://r2.sakurakat.systems/preview--bf-compiler.png"
[projects.location]
github = "pawarherschel/BFCranelift"

[[projects]]
visible = true
title = "Krita Palette Creator"
society = "Personal Project"
date = "September 2024"
description = [
  "A tool to create Krita and GIMP compatible palettes from images by applying color quantization algorithms.",
  "It generates a `.gpl` palette file and creates a preview image for visual reference. Supports adjustable depth levels for quantization and optional color tolerance settings. View an example here: https://r2.sakurakat.systems/preview--krita-palette-creator.png",
  "My contribution: Contributed to rosettacode https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Color_quantization#Rust, and implemented color deduplication by using similarity score.",
]
tags = [
  "Rust",
  "Image Processing",
  "Color Quantization",
  "Krita",
  "GIMP",
  "CLI Tool",
]
preview = "https://r2.sakurakat.systems/preview--krita-palette-creator.png"
[projects.location]
github = "pawarherschel/krita-palette-creator"

[[projects]]
visible = false
title = "Ray Tracing in Rust"
society = "Personal Project"
date = "November 2023"
description = [
  "Made by following raytracing in a weekend",
  "Parallelly processes with Rayon and provides progress indication using the Indicatif crate.",
  "The implementation includes image output in both PPM and PNG formats.",
  "My contribution: Implemented parallel processing with Rayon and explored cpu-based raytracing",
]
tags = ["Ray Tracing", "Rust", "Rayon", "image"]
preview = "https://r2.sakurakat.systems/preview--raytracer.png"
[projects.location]
github = "pawarherschel/raytracinginrust"

[[others]]
visible = false
title = "Kait"
society = "VRoid Studio"
date = "2021"
description = [
  "Created an original character (OC) using VRoid Studio.",
  "Utilized self-taught Photoshop skills to create textures and assets for the OC.",
  "VRM file: https://r2.sakurakat.systems/kait.vrm",
  "My contribution: Modeled the character, customized textures, and refined assets using Photoshop.",
]
tags = ["VRoid Studio", "Photoshop", "Texture Creation", "Character Design"]
preview = "https://r2.sakurakat.systems/preview--kait.png"
location = "https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/kait-57e49bfc4c3e4955bdb99b39cf254559"

[[others]]
visible = false
title = "Rust for Lunch"
society = "Pixel Art"
date = "March 2024"
description = [
  "Designed fan art for 'Rust for Lunch', an online meetup attended.",
  "My contribution: Created the artwork using pixel art tools",
]
tags = ["Pixel Art", "Fan Art", "Rust for Lunch"]
preview = "https://r2.sakurakat.systems/preview--rfl.png"
location = "https://r2.sakurakat.systems/preview--rfl.png"

[[others]]
description = [
  "Designed logo for 'Fractured Elements'game.",
  "My contribution: Conceptualized and designed the logo using Pixelorama to represent the game's theme.",
]
visible = false
title = "Fractured Elements"
society = "Pixel Art"
date = "March 2024"
tags = ["Pixel Art", "Logo Design", "Fractured Elements", "Pixelorama"]
preview = "https://r2.sakurakat.systems/preview--fractured-elements-logo.png"
location = "https://r2.sakurakat.systems/preview--fractured-elements-logo.pxo"

[[others]]
visible = false
title = "Personal Logo"
society = "Personal Project"
date = "March 2024"
description = [
  "Designed a logo inspired by the creator's online username by combining and editing two emojis.",
  "My contribution: Blended emojis and refined the design using Adobe Illustrator to create a cohesive logo.",
]
tags = ["Logo Design", "Emoji Art", "Adobe Illustrator"]
preview = "https://r2.sakurakat.systems/preview--kibty.png"
location = "https://r2.sakurakat.systems/favicon.svg"

[[others]]
description = ["Personal nixos and home-manager configurations."]
visible = false
title = "NixOS Config"
society = "Nix"
date = "October 2024"
tags = ["Nix", "NixOS", "Linux", "dot files"]
preview = "https://r2.sakurakat.systems/preview--nixos-config.png"
location = "https://github.com/pawarherschel/nixos-config"

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[[skills]]
visible = true
type = "Natural Languages"
info = ["English", "Hindi", "Marathi"]

[[skills]]
visible = true
type = "Software Tools"
info = ["Git", "Photoshop", "Krita", "Godot", "Microsoft Word", "VRoid Studio"]

[[skills]]
visible = true
type = "Knowledge Areas"
info = [
  "Docker",
  "Cloudflare",
  "Ansible",
  "Linux",
  "NixOS",
  "Power Automate",
  "Web Scraping",
]

[[skills]]
visible = true
type = "Personal Interests"
info = [
  "Manga & Scanlation",
  "VRChat",
  "Game Development",
  "GPU Acceleration",
  "NixOS",
]

[[skills]]
visible = false
type = "Projects"
info = ["Rust", "GDScript"]

[[skills]]
visible = true
type = "Libraries"
info = ["cranelift", "rayon", "bevy", "tokio", "sqlx", "surrealdb"]