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Vaughn Valle

  • 22 years old
  • Made in Philippines

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About me

Spectre is a terminal-inspired theme for Astro!

It features a sleek dark-mode aesthetic, various social features inspired by Neocities, perfect lighthouse scores, full keyboard accessibility, comments powered by giscus, a search powered by pagefind and more!

If you want to dive deeper, check out the example project, and if you want to get started, check out the blog post!

Work Experience

Aug 2019 – Jun 2020

EINSTEIN Club of PSHS

Vice President

Led and pioneered 6 humanitarian inventions and 4 innovation groups with international recognition and awards.

Jul 2020 – Oct 2020

YouTube

Creator

Developed lightweight Linux operating systems for low-end commodity hardware to make the internet accessible. Garnered 337k total views and a community of 503,000 people by creating Linux video tutorials on YouTube.

Oct 2020 – Apr 2022

ResPi

Hardware Engineer

Conducted developmental research using sound data to predict respiratory disease diagnosis in real-time. Built electret microphone hardware for a CNN model with an 89% model accuracy and a 0.05s time diagnosis.

Jun 2019 – Jun 2022

The VISION Project

Project Lead

Granted a patent by WIPO and Japan (WO2021230759A1). Engineered a wearable computer vision system using an RPi CM 3+ and Intel NCS for visually impaired people, designed a PCB with JLCPCB in China, latency of 157.5 ms yielded 14x faster performance vs RasPi projects.

Sep 2023 – Present

General Engineering

Teaching Assistant

Taught laboratory classes on programming Arduino and Raspberry Pi boards using Arduino C and Python + OpenCV, digital logic using IC chips, CAD using Fusion 360, and architecture design with Autodesk Revit. Mentored 7 accessibility project groups e.g. medicine pill dispenser for the elderly and book scanner for dyslexics.

Nov 2023 – Present

OSIRIS Lab

CSAW’ 24 Lead and PR Manager

Deployed a Proxmox server for remote management of containers and VMs, setup Twingate to orchestrate zero trust security for internal resources, setup Astro + Ghost blog site, setup GitHub repo for Kubernetes integration. Wrote rev and forensics challenges for CSAW’ 24 Quals, playtested CTF challenges for CSAW ‘23 & CSAW ‘24.

May 2024 – Present

General Engineering

Systems Administration + Web Development

Managed endpoints using Bigfix and ESXi, security and monitoring with Cortex XDR and InsightVM. Developed the course’s website front end with ReactJS and Tailwind CSS on GitHub.

May 2024 – May 2025

Cybersecurity Club

President

Led weekly Capture the Flag (CTF) workshops and Hack Nights catered to students of all skill levels. Demonstrated privilege escalation exploits using Bugcrowd, Active directory attacks, and Metasploit + ADB.