Faith at the center. Creativity in everything.
Wheaton College / Class of 2027
Christian. Creator. Developer.
A little of who I am.
An eye for the story.
A mind for the build.
I’m a Christian, a senior computer science student-athlete with a studio art minor, and a junior Unity developer. I make photographs, films, and games—and explore what AI can learn from human expression.
Currently
Diverted River Technology · Since May 2026
Studying
Wheaton College · Expected graduation May 2027
Open to
Photo · Video · Social media · Chicago-area coding
What matters most
My Christian faith is the center of my life. Before my work, my studies, or anything I create, that is what matters most to me.
I want that foundation to show in how I treat people, how I approach my work, and what I choose to create. Photography, art, and technology are different parts of my life, held together by that same foundation.
Photography and art give me a way to pay attention to people, moments, and the details around me.
Computer science, game development, and AI give me another way to explore ideas and make them tangible.
I’m looking for opportunities to contribute, keep learning, and bring both sides of that perspective to a team.
Experience & education
A student-athlete connecting computer science, studio art, and visual storytelling in the Greater Chicago area.
May 2026 — Present
Chicago · Remote
Developing in Unity with C#, combining game development, graphic design, and AI interests. Built two complete mini-games for a planned early-2027 client deployment and two larger prototypes for internal pitches.
August 2024 — Present
Wheaton, Illinois
Create sports photography and videography for Wheaton College athletics. Use Adobe Creative Cloud for professional editing and prepare visual content for digital platforms.
April 2025 — August 2025
Remote
Contributed to designing, developing, and deploying Avid Golf and YUP RSVP. Built responsive frontends with Next.js, React, and Tailwind CSS, translated Figma designs into interactive experiences, and worked on full-stack deployment and performance optimization.
August 2021 — June 2025
Glencoe & Lake Forest, Illinois
Built customer-service and teamwork experience in a fast-paced setting, supporting orders, food preparation, and guest satisfaction.
August 2023 — May 2027 (expected)
Senior and student-athlete on the baseball team. Also involved as a Young Life leader and student sports photographer. Pursuing a master’s in teaching.
Academic recognition
2× Spring CCIW Academic All-Conference
Recognized in 2025 and 2026.
Personal project · September 2026
A local résumé and cover-letter workspace.
Built an application that turns a job description and existing experience into tailored résumé and cover-letter drafts. It detects the role title, ranks relevant evidence with TF-IDF and PyTorch cosine similarity, and highlights unsupported keywords for review.
Designed a responsive workspace for reviewing and editing both documents, with individual downloads and ZIP export. Added optional local AI rewriting through Ollama and automated Python and Playwright tests.
View CV Studio on GitHub ↗Selected web projects · Former Colleagues
An event-management platform for creating events, inviting guests, and collecting RSVPs through SMS and email.
Full-stack development · Responsive interfaces
Web development for Avid Golf 2.0, supporting a golf experience spanning round tracking, leagues, handicaps, and social features.
Full-stack development · Deployment & optimization
Tools & skills
Code, play & experimentation
From complete mini-games to local neural networks, these are the kinds of problems I’ve been working on.
01 / Unity · Diverted River
Complete mini-games
Client deployment planned for early 2027
Created two full mini-games as a junior developer at Diverted River. The client’s deployment is upcoming, so these are presented as development experience rather than released games.
My contribution: development of both mini-games in Unity.
02 / Prototyping · Diverted River
Larger game mockups
Built for pitches to the team
Built two substantial game mockups to help pitch ideas to the wider team. These projects focused on presenting a game concept through a working prototype.
My contribution: development of two game prototypes.
03 / Local AI experiments
Exploring how a model can learn from human expression.
I’ve built multiple local AI models using recurrent neural networks, including experiments in human sentiment detection with music and poetry datasets. This was a past independent project.
The exploration centered on building sentiment profiles and examining distinctions between music and poetry—even where their expression can feel similar. It reflects my interest in connecting model behavior with creative material.
Ask me about the work ↗Snyder Digital
Photography, videography, and social media are central to the opportunities I’m pursuing.
See @snyderdigital ↗Interested in helping teams and brands bring photography, video, and a consistent presence to their social channels.
Talk about your team ↗Through my lens
From the energy of game day to the quieter moments in between.
Already in front of my camera?
Browse the collections or get in touch for your session’s gallery.
Outside the brief
Personal work, visual experiments, and the things that make me look twice.
Opening the sketchbook…
Let’s work together
Wheaton, IL
Open to in-person coding roles in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs
Photography, videography, social media management, and in-person coding roles.