# Engineering — David Awad

**URL:** https://davidaw.ad/engineering
**LLM version:** https://davidaw.ad/engineering/llms.txt

Selected software, machine-learning, embedded, and legal-tech projects.

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## Contract Variable Highlighter — 2024 [legal-tech]
VS Code-style highlighter that finds and color-codes every defined term in a contract so lawyers can spot drafting errors.

## teamlab — 2023 [web] (https://teamlab.wtf)
A hub for hackathon teams to find each other.

## TISLA Student Loan FAQ — 2021 [legal-tech] (https://github.com/davidawad/TISLA_FAQ)
Open-source student loan FAQ for the Institute of Student Loan Advisors.

## thoth — 2020 [tool] (https://github.com/DavidAwad/thoth)
Terminal-based note-taking with markdown-rendered preview.

## Read-Between-The-Lines — 2018 [legal-tech] (https://github.com/DavidAwad/Read-Between-The-Lines)
NLP tool that diffs two versions of a contract and surfaces the meaningful changes.

## capstone — 2018 [ml] (https://github.com/DavidAwad/capstone)
Self-driving car capstone — full ROS stack, perception + planning + control.

## traffic-sign-classifier — 2017 [ml] (https://github.com/DavidAwad/traffic-sign-classifier)
Deep CNN that classifies German traffic signs — Udacity self-driving car nanodegree.

## lane-detection — 2017 [ml] (https://github.com/DavidAwad/lane-detection)
OpenCV pipeline that detects lane lines from a forward-facing dashcam feed.

## Behavioral-Cloning — 2017 [ml] (https://github.com/DavidAwad/Behavioral-Cloning)
End-to-end neural net that learns to steer a car from front-camera frames alone.

## hi.rd — 2017 [web] (https://github.com/DavidAwad/hi.rd)
Tiny URL shortener with click analytics.

## vehicle-detection — 2017 [ml] (https://github.com/DavidAwad/vehicle-detection)
SVM + HOG features pipeline that boxes every car in a dashcam frame.

## advanced-lane-detection — 2017 [ml] (https://github.com/DavidAwad/advanced-lane-detection)
Perspective-warp + polynomial fit that tracks curved lane lines under shadow and glare.

## insightweets — 2016 [web] (https://github.com/DavidAwad/insightweets)
Sentiment analysis dashboard for a Twitter user's timeline.

## Archangel Raphael's Mission — 2016 [nonprofit] (http://armnewbrunswick.org)
Site + ops backbone for the 501(c)(3) David co-founded — mobile showers, meals, and hygiene services for the homeless.

## blocky — 2016 [web] (https://github.com/DavidAwad/blocky)
Browser-based block-pushing puzzle game.

## ironmyo — 2016 [embedded] (https://github.com/DavidAwad/ironmyo)
Myo armband interface that lets you control Iron Man-style HUD elements with hand gestures.

## Waves — 2016 [physics] (https://github.com/DavidAwad/Waves)
Numerical simulation of the 2D wave equation, written for an undergrad PDE course.

## kinectsentrygun — 2015 [embedded] (https://github.com/DavidAwad/kinectsentrygun)
Kinect-driven motion-tracking sentry gun that follows a person around the room.

## spaceshare — 2015 [web] (https://github.com/DavidAwad/spaceshare)
Airbnb-style platform for sharing unused office space, built at a hackathon.

## pebbledex — 2014 [embedded] (https://github.com/DavidAwad/pebbledex)
Pokedex for the Pebble smartwatch — every Pokemon, on your wrist.