Aaron Tran

Hi, I'm Aaron, a computer science student who engineers.

computer science @ university of waterloo

Toronto Catholic District School Board

2025

Information Technology Intern

  • what i'm doing
  • > seeking summer 2027 internship opportunities
  • > building Retermina, a local, cross-platform Tauri terminal workspace featuring native Rust PTY shells
  • what i've done
  • > built BAAM, a multi-surface social betting platform with an iMessage extension, driven by Solana smart contracts
  • > 1st @ cursor Toronto Hackathon
  • > Best usage of Google Gemini tools @ Hack the Valley
  • > 3rd @ Google DeepMind Hackathon
  • > more to come soon :)
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retermina — workspace
Retermina

Dev Tools — 2026

Retermina

a customizable terminal workspace on Tauri v2 & Rust — native PTY shells, seven draggable panels (terminal, editor, explorer, live git diff, localhost tracker, preview, embedded Claude Code), plus Iris, a tokenless context-aware command bar. Fully local, no cloud or subscription.

BAAM

Social Betting — 2026

BAAM

multi-surface social betting platform with an iMessage extension — Solana smart contracts for on-chain wagers, MongoDB backend.

Plotboard

Sports Tech — 2026

Plotboard

an interactive 2D American football playbook designer and play simulator — Next.js 16 (App Router) + TypeScript + Tailwind v4 with vanilla HTML5 Canvas rendering, a deterministic physics/AI engine, and Supabase integration.

nutri.ai

Health Tech — 2026

nutri.ai

a pregnancy-aware food safety & nutrition assistant on Next.js 16 — barcode, meal-photo & screenshot scanning matched against the Open Food Facts API, with the Gemini API reasoning over a curated public-health source corpus (FDA, CDC, ACOG, NHS) to explain ingredient-level verdicts and cite its sources, plus a local consumption tracker with weekly pattern summaries.

Coming Soon

Computer Vision — 2026

FaceRay

a real-time AI virtual camera that tracks a 468-point face mesh to correct eye contact and apply face-confined beautification & background blur, wrapped in a Tauri 2.0 desktop shell.

Marrymap

Wedding Tech — 2026

Marrymap

a collaborative wedding planning app on Next.js 16 & React 19 — Tinder-style vendor swiping that only matches when both partners swipe right, a built-in CRM for quotes, deposits & timelines with one-click automated SMS/email outreach, and a Chrome extension that clips vendor recommendations from anywhere on the web straight into the couple’s dashboard.