Hey there! I'm Sam Brew (arctic-hen7) a fullstack web developer, distributed systems designer, and budding economist! This page is where you can learn more about me, and the things I've done so far in my short life on this Earth. I provide my full resumé externally to this website as required.
Personal
2005–Present
Myself!
My personal projects throughout my life.
2023–Present
Founder and maintainer
An app that lets users write and edit text using purely their voice. (Link is to a less capable open-source version.)
- Received micro-grant funding from UNSW Founders after pitching in the 2023 Digital Makers Competition
2021–2023
Founder and maintainer
Simple, cross-platform, and lightning fast command aliases with superpowers.
- Led the project to over 8,000 downloads
Founder and maintainer
A spaced repetition CLI/engine that can be programmed with completely custom learning algorithms (used regularly by me).
2023–Present
Founder and maintainer
An obfuscation library with extremely powerful novel security properties. (Pending cryptographic review.)
2021–2023
Founder and maintainer
Automatic issue triaging through mini-websites for guiding users through contributing to open-source projects.
2021–2022
Founder and maintainer
A Rust GraphQL system with full support for subscriptions and authentication that works out of the box.
- Pioneered the experimental model of securely linking a GraphQL subscriptions server to parallel serverless architectures for queries and mutations
2021–Present
Founder and maintainer
A drop-dead-simple error reporting library for Rust.
- Brought the project to over 22,000 downloads without a single GitHub star 😉!
2021–Present
Creator
This very website!
2020–2021
Founder and maintainer
(My very first open-source project, give it a star!) The Internal Program Error Management System, designed for bringing the portability of HTTP status codes to all programs. This consists of a protocol and a JavaScript implementation.
Framesurge
2022–Present
Founder
An organisation dedicated to building the frameworks of the future, founded on the principle that a general solution is better than a specific one.
2021–Present
Founder and maintainer
A state-driven web development framework for Rust with full support for server-side rendering and static generation.
- Led the project to over 1,200 stars on GitHub
- Led the project to over 12,000 downloads
- Developed hot state reloading, a revolutionary new approach to state management in development that brought faster development cycles to WebAssembly
- Developed the capsules system, pioneering the model of page-driven development
- Built the infrastructure for Perseus to generate some of the fastest websites in the world consistently
The Quantorium
2022–Present
Founder
An organisation building foundational distributed systems for the security and integrity of the future of the internet.
2018–Present
Founder and maintainer
A next-generation general data security platform.
2020–Present
Founder and maintainer
A revolutionary distributed network for cryptographically verifiable and decentralised storage and computation.
2023–Present
Founder and maintainer
A novel append-only ledger system to replace blockchain, while improving flexibility, environmental sustainability, and security.
University of New South Wales
2023–Present
Undergraduate
I am currently enrolled in the Bachelor of Economics/Computer Science degree at UNSW.
2023–Present
Student (Undergraduate)
The course I'm currently enrolled in. Achievements below list the courses I've completed in order. Weighted average mark: 86.9.
- COMP1511: Programming Fundamentals (97 HD)
- ECON1101: Microeconomics 1 (83 DN)
- MATH1131: Mathematics 1A (77 DN)
- ECON1201: Macroeconomics 1 (87 HD)
- COMM1190: Data, Insights and Decisions (80 DN)
- MATH1081: Discrete Mathematics (86 HD)
- ECON1401: Economic Perspectives (88 HD)
- COMP1531: Software Engineering Fundamentals (94 HD)
- MATH1231: Mathematics 1B (90 HD)
2023–Present
Participant and regular event attendee
I participate regularly in UNSW Founders events, coaching, and hackathons.
- Jointly let a team of seven to first place in the 2023 Sustainable Development Goals hackathon, pitching a solution to raise awareness of relative poverty in Australia
- Made the finals of the 2023 Digital Makers Competition, pitching Sotto
- Completed the 2023 Startup Year Bootcamp (intensive two-day program on pitching, idea validation, and core principles of startups)
Website administrator
An organisation founded to promote inclusion, equity, and quality in economics education and economic literacy, whose website I administer.
- Built the website for the Australasian Economics Olympiad (AAEO): australasianeconolympiad.org
- Helped run the inaugural AAEO in person in 2023
June 2023
Participant and graduate
Completed the Leadership Foundations course, achieving AHEGS recognition.