Henry Cox
UC San Diego Computer Science and Japanese Studies Double Major
An undergraduate student who has had a website as their pet project for a very long time—I've been running some form of a personal web server for nearly a decade by now. I currently juggle the responsibilities of being a student with my part-time job as a church worker, where I work as a team with pastors, organist and leadership to create a weekly order of service. I delight in getting computers to do things I want: when there's something I'd like a computer to do, you'll find me investigating useful tools, pouring over documentation and writing any necessary code to get things done. I'm also a through enjoyer of Japanese light novels and animation.
Experience
University Lutheran Church — Office Manager
APRIL 2022 - PRESENT
Primarily creating the order of service for worship while managing the church website. Duties involve coordinating between pastors, organist and church leadership. Secondary duties include management of music rights, responding to public inquiries to the church via phone, mail or email, and streaming church services to youtube.
Education
University of California, San Diego — Undergraduate
FALL 2020 - PRESENT
Computer Science and Japanese Studies Double Major. Expecting graduation in Winter 2025. 3.5 GPA.
Projects
AI-Assisted Recipe Generator — CSE 110 Course Project
FALL 2023
As part of a team of 6 students, created a scalable, client-server model Java program that interacted with OpenAI’s Whisper (voice-to-text), ChatGPT (text generative AI) and DALL-E (image generative AI) APIs and MongoDB to create and save recipes–complete with example images–when spoken to with ingredients, using Agile software development practices, over a span of 8 weeks.
Japanese Novel Game — JAPN 130B Course Project
WINTER 2023
Created a visual novel game using the Ren’py Visual Novel Engine running on python and Stable Diffusion as an experiment on the effects of easier art creation afforded by generative image AIs.
Church Technology Upgrade — Work Project
FALL 2022
Eliminated paper waste by purchasing and configuring iPads to display the current order of service in single-app mode by querying a local automated server; Upgraded several mini-PCs by replacing the HDD with an SSD; Purchased components for and built a PC dedicated to streaming the worship service.
Self-Hosted Website — Personal Project
SUMMER 2015 - PRESENT
Self-hosting a website on a Raspberry Pi. Starting originally with a for-dummies textbook, self-hosted a website first on and off, gradually becoming more consistent, for the purpose of learning more about linux and webhosting for a decade.
