Xander Steyn

Built a custom Windows deployment and configuration platform focused on speed, efficiency, and user control through deep Windows internals knowledge and automation.

• Created a stripped-down Windows ISO by removing non-essential components, reducing system overhead.
• Developed a post-install app for user configuration and selective app installs, streamlining setup.
• Automated system utilities, including a reliable way to uninstall embedded Microsoft Edge bypassing OS restrictions.
• Deepened expertise in Windows internals, scripting, automation, and user-centric design.

An intensive full-stack course focused on foundational programming, software design, databases, web development, and deployment workflows.

• Developed Python skills including control flow, OOP, recursion, and error handling.
• Applied core data structures, algorithms, and debugging techniques.
• Built database-backed applications and gained backend integration experience.
• Covered frontend essentials like HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, and Django integration.
• Utilized version control with Git, deployment with Docker, and wrote project documentation.

A deep dive into computer science fundamentals using modern and low-level languages, including C, Python, SQL, and JavaScript. Topics cover abstraction, algorithms, data structures, security, and web development.

• Developed strong understanding of algorithms, memory management, data structures, debugging, and software design.
• Completed nine problem sets inspired by cryptography, forensics, finance, gaming, and biology.
• Built a final project combining frontend and backend technologies using languages learned during the course.