Patrick Kaipainen

Develop and test UI features for a cybersecurity platform.

Develop and test UI features for a cloud platform to provide users with visibility into their organization's network resource records.

Migrate legacy React class components to hooks.

Built with Chart.js and React.js this dashboard displays trends in demand for the various different trades represented by the IBEW in Toronto, giving the user an at-a-glance index into construction activity in the city.

Using Puppeteer I built a scraper that populates an archive of jobs available to members of the Electrical Workers Union in Toronto. After parsing the DOM the scraper archives the daily job call information in HTML and JSON files.

A separate script reads each JSON file, performs some validation, and inserts the data into a PostreSQL database.

Information about jobs for specific member classifications and electrical contractors is returned from a server built with Express.js, which handles requests to several endpoints.

A reusable React component that renders a string to a canvas element. The output can be customized in several ways by passing props to the component. A companion utility, the Pixel Character Editor can create, read and update user customized character definition files in JSON format.

An image processing script that directly manipulates the pixel data of two images to insert a 'secret' image into a background. The pixel data of the background is mapped into a new context, the width of which can be varied. When the width of the new context does not match that of the original image, the resulting picture resembles television 'static.' When the width of the new context does match the original, the picture resolves.

The 'secret' image gets inserted into the pixel array of the background, but the point at which it will resolve can be modified. The result is a kind of parallax effect where a different image will be visible depending on the width of the new context the data is mapped into.

I guided students in the development of their own creative practices as a contract faculty member at the Western University Visual Arts Department. This included technical instruction in photography, photoshop, and Adobe Creative Suite, discussions around art theory, and facilitation of 'critiques' - loosely structured open forums in which students present their work to peers and faculty. The purpose of these conversations is a kind of discovery process that can illuminate new paths forward on the student's creative journey.