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Portrait of Dave Ta

Dave Ta. I build software. I keep it running too.

Right now I'm working on rocket telemetry, an IELTS site, and a public MCP server. I run several other sites from a rack in Toronto.

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Selected Work

A few things I built

I wrote the code, did the deploys, and know where the rough edges are.

Astra Labs, Rocket telemetry for Astra LabsAstra LabsRocket telemetry for Astra LabsThreshold, 1st place at Seneca Energy Hackathon 2026Threshold1st place at Seneca Energy Hackathon 2026Hana IELTS, IELTS practice siteHana IELTSIELTS practice siteGreenlight, 3rd place at CentennialHacks 2026Greenlight3rd place at CentennialHacks 2026SuperWeb, Built for OpenAI's WebMCP ChallengeSuperWebBuilt for OpenAI's WebMCP ChallengeMCP Platform, Public MCP server running on RailwayMCP PlatformPublic MCP server running on Railway
Competition record

Four podiums, three of them first.

Hackathons and engineering competitions, most recent first. Open one for the full story.

  1. Aug 2026CentennialHacks3rd
  2. May 2026Seneca Energy Hackathon1st
  3. Apr 2026FinTech Summit, Rotman × BMO1st
  4. 1stDec 2025Seneca Software Engineering Competition1st
Deployments

Live deployments

Client sites and self-hosted services I put up and still keep running.

Clientwendyliu.workPortfolio, designed and deployed
Clientiliasabokro.comCivil and mechanical drawing sets
Self-hostedhuydoan.workResearch portfolio on my own hardware
Self-hostedjeremiahwong.homeserverlocal.comPortfolio, alongside the rest of the rack
Experience

Where the work happens

I study AI and Computer Engineering Technology at Seneca Polytechnic. The rest of the week goes to keeping other people's systems up.

GDG on Campus

Google Developer Group at Seneca Polytechnic

Since 2026

Position
Tech Lead
Location
Toronto, ON
Domain
Community & events

Tech lead for the GDG chapter on campus. I help plan and run the workshops and talks, and I handle the coordination that comes with them.

Our first info session ran on September 23, 2026: 64 registrations, a panel and Q&A with Olivier Bourgeois from Google, workshops and demos, and the Bean Bash mini-game, which I hosted.

AWS @ Seneca

Student cloud club

Since 2026

Position
Member
Location
Toronto, ON
Domain
Cloud

Joined the campus AWS club in September 2026. First job was helping the team find marketing and events people. I want to bring the deployment work I already do into club sessions.

Student Support

Live events and campus AV

Since 2024

Position
Audio Visual Technician
Location
Toronto, ON
Domain
Live systems

Live sound, streaming, and event setups for campus events, including the equipment safety side. Rooms have to work the first time.

Nothing here is theoretical. When something fails, a room full of people watches it fail.

Brand Glow Up

Websites and automation for small teams

2024

Position
Technical Support Intern
Location
Remote
Domain
Web & automation
Site
brandglowup.com

Website and automation support, technical audits, and remote troubleshooting against client sites I did not write and had to read first.

Most of the job was reproducing the problem properly before touching anything.

Certifications
All of them on LinkedIn
NVIDIANVIDIA-Certified Associate: Generative AI LLMsOracleOCI 2025 Certified Generative AI ProfessionalOracleOCI 2025 Certified AI Foundations AssociateNVIDIANVIDIA-Certified Associate: AI Infrastructure and OperationsCompTIACompTIA A+CompTIA Tech Career AcademySystems Support SpecialistAWSAWS Certified AI PractitionerCompTIACompTIA Linux+MicrosoftAZ-900: Microsoft Azure FundamentalsAWSAWS Certified Cloud PractitionerHarvardX · edXCS50's Introduction to Databases with SQLHarvardX · edXCS50's Introduction to Computer Science
Off the clock

Behind the builds

Photos from hackathon stages and campus AV shifts.

Seneca Energy Hackathon, Threshold
Rotman FinTech Summit
CentennialHacks, certificates
Community night
AV Club
Summit, after the pitch
Details
Based
Toronto, Ontario, EST
Studying
AI & Computer Engineering Technology, Seneca Polytechnic
Writing
TypeScript · Python · SQL · Bash
Building on
Next.js · Postgres · Prisma · Docker · S3
Running on
Proxmox on hardware I own · Vercel · Neon
Open to
Software, platform, and infrastructure work