Hello, I'm

Evan Law

a recent computer science master’s graduate transitioning into software development.
I’m focused on backend, distributed systems, and full-stack development.

About

Projects

AskSauron

A Java-based distributed search engine built on a custom Spark-like framework developed from scratch and deployed via Amazon EC2. Distributed workers handle web crawling, indexing, and PageRank computation with checkpointing, recovery, and crash-resilient execution. The search layer serves concurrent users with cached, ranked results, phrase search, and spellcheck.

~1M pages crawled
~500K unique docs indexed

Click here to go to: github.com/evanwlaw/AskSauronSearchEngine

FlowMinder

A Zoom App designed to keep meetings focused, organized, and on time. Running directly inside the Zoom client, it gives hosts control over agendas and timers while allowing participants to follow along and send anonymous nudges.

Real-time agenda + timer sync
Role-based meeting controls

Click here to go to: github.com/evanwlaw/flowminder-app

Hello Manta

An exploratory blockchain project created to better understand how dapps work on testnet, including how Layer 2 networks like Manta relate to Ethereum L1. The project connects a Next.js frontend to a Solidity smart contract, supports MetaMask-based reads and writes, and uses IPFS for deployment

L1/L2 testnet deployment
IPFS-based app hosting

Click here to go to: github.com/evanwlaw/hello-manta-demo

Pacman Q-Learning

A Python-based reinforcement learning project that implements Q-Learning and Approximate Q-Learning for Pacman. It explores how exploration strategies and feature-based value approximation help agents learn effective behavior from gameplay experience.

Handles unseen state-action pairs
Feature-weight policy learning

Click here to go to: github.com/evanwlaw/AskSauronSearchEngine