Marlon

Software Engineer

About

I build software because I'm drawn to the moment when complexity becomes clear. Someone brings me a tangled problem: front-end, back-end, the architecture holding it together. I break it down until the path forward reveals itself. Not to impress anyone with the cleverness. But because I know that when software works invisibly, it changes how people move through their day. The best part is that moment between idea and reality. When something that only existed in someone's mind becomes a system that actually functions. That requires both rigor and imagination.

Projects

  • Personal Finance Analytics Dashboard

    Personal Finance Analytics Dashboard

    Built a comprehensive personal finance tracking application to solve the challenge of expense management and financial awareness, providing users with intuitive expense tracking, advanced analytics visualizations, and data export capabilities for better financial decision-making.

    • Python
    • Flask
    • SQLAlchemy
    • HTML & CSS
    • JavaScript
    • Bootstrap 5
    • Chart.js
    • D3.js
    • SQLite
    • ReportLab
    • Render.com
    • Supabase
    • Git
  • Smart Log File Analyzer

    Smart Log File Analyzer

    Developed a Python-based application to parse and analyze large server log files (Apache Combined Log Format), identifying key insights such as top IP addresses, status code distributions, and request volumes over time. Built an interactive Flask dashboard with Plotly visualizations and a command-line interface for report generation. Enabled dynamic filtering and detailed reporting to support proactive monitoring and troubleshooting.

    • Python
    • Flask
    • Plotly
    • Jinja2
    • Click
    • Git
  • Automated File Organizer

    Automated File Organizer

    Developed a cross-functional file organization tool that automates the sorting of files by type or modification date. Built both a graphical user interface (GUI) using Tkinter and a command-line interface (CLI) for flexibility and ease of use.

    • Python
    • Tkinter
    • CLI
    • PyInstaller
    • Git
    • Windows Batch Scripting
  • Inventory & Revenue Tracker

    Inventory & Revenue Tracker

    Designed and deployed a streamlined inventory tracking app for solo sellers, improving data entry speed by integrating a user-friendly Excel upload, automated cleaning pipeline, and dynamic PDF reporting interface via Streamlit.

    • Python
    • Pandas
    • Streamlit
    • Matplotlib
    • Seaborn
    • OpenPyXL
    • FPDF
    • GitHub
    • Streamlit Cloud
  • Project Tracker

    Project Tracker

    Developed a full stack tracker app using Flask for back-end logic, to help users manage projects more efficiently.

    • Python
    • PythonAnywhere
    • Flask
    • VS Code
    • Bootstrap
    • MySQL
    • Git
  • CO2 Emissions Tracker

    CO2 Emissions Tracker

    Designed and built a fully responsive web application that visualizes global CO₂ emissions by country using interactive line charts.

    • HTML
    • CSS
    • JavaScript
    • Chart.js
    • PapaParse
    • Github Pages
    • Data Visualization
  • Store (Closed)

    Store (Closed)

    Launched a seamless full stack e-commerce store with pagination and category filtering.

    • Next.js
    • Tailwind
    • Prisma
    • Stripe
    • Vercel
    • Clerk
    • PlanetScale
    • Git
  • Artist Recommendation (Spotify API Deprecated)

    Artist Recommendation (Spotify API Deprecated)

    Crafted a full stack artist recommendation api using Flask, providing recommendations to users.

    • Python
    • Flask
    • React
    • Tailwind
    • Firebase
    • Google Cloud Platform
    • Docker
    • Git

Essays

  • No Way Out

    No Way Out

    Parallels between fictional trauma experienced by characters in literature and the psychological impact it reflects in a real-world location.

  • Accepted Madness

    Accepted Madness

    Exploring sanity with Edward Albee and Ernest Hemingway.

  • Into the Future, Amidst the Past

    Into the Future, Amidst the Past

    Exploring the duality of man through a specific film.