Michael Brennan

I'm a 2nd year at Northeastern University studying computer engineering. This semester, I'm an Electrical & Computer Engineer at Generate.

I'm always looking to meet and connect with new people! Feel free to reach out to my email.

My Work

3 Stones

Technical Lead, Sep 2024 - Dec 2024

3 Stones is an app for accessible real estate investing, allowing individuals to invest directly in development projects with minimal capital. I was one of the tech leads for this project - I led a team of 6 engineers, ensuring effective communication and coordination with leadership and design teams. In addition, I architected our backend and database schema, and developed our project details and project investment screens.

Technologies: Go, Supabase, PostgreSQL, Plaid, TypeScript, React Native

Repository

Student Activity Calendar

Software Engineer, Jan 2024 - Jun 2024

Student Activity Calendar is an app for club and event marketing at Northeastern. As an engineer for this project, I built out endpoints using Go and PostgreSQL; built a hybrid search feature for clubs and events using PostgreSQL FTS and OpenAI Embeddings; and built the search and explore screens with React Native, TypeScript, and Expo.

Technologies: Go, Supabase, PostgreSQL, OpenAI Embeddings API, TypeScript, React Native

Repository

Rita

Personal Project, Jul 2024 - Aug 2024

Rita is an audio graph editor built using Rust, Tauri, and CPAL. I implemented nodes for audio I/O, processing, and synthesis; and a sound compiler and playback system for performant and smooth audio playback.

Technologies: Rust, Tauri, CPAL

Repository Blog Post

Oceanman

Personal Project, Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

Oceanman is a 3D renderer I built from scratch to learn graphics programming. Using WebGPU and Rust, I implemented physically-based rendering, image-based lighting, a glTF scene loader, HDR texture support, and post-processing effects (tonemapping and FXAA).

Technologies: Rust, WebGPU