MSCS @ NEU Boston

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Developed a CLI-based Texas Hold’em Poker game in C++ with multithreaded bot players and in-game probability calculations using Monte Carlo Simulation.

Key Features:
	•	Full Texas Hold’em gameplay loop (preflop, flop, turn, river, showdown)
	•	Human vs Bot gameplay with difficulty levels (Easy, Medium, Hard, HardPlus)
	•	Real-time hand strength evaluation and win/tie probability display
	•	Monte Carlo simulations to estimate live odds during gameplay
	•	Modular architecture following MVC design principles for extensibility
	•	Advanced hand evaluator supporting straight flushes, full houses, and tie-breakers
	•	Multithreading for realistic bot “thinking time” and simulation parallelism

Texas Hold’em Poker Engine with AI Simulation

Developed a comprehensive database management application that simulates the entire lifecycle of credit card payment transactions within the Visa network. The system models complex interactions between cardholders, issuing banks, acquiring banks, and merchants through a relational database architecture.
Key Features:

Implemented a fully normalized SQL database schema with 11 interconnected tables tracking everything from transaction authorization to settlement
Built a Java GUI application with dedicated panels for custom queries, CRUD operations, complex joins, views, and aggregation functions
Designed transaction processing workflows capturing real-world payment network operations including authorization, fraud detection, and settlement
Modeled financial data relationships including interchange fee structures, merchant category codes, and multi-currency support
Applied database security best practices including tokenization of sensitive card data

Technologies Used: Java, MySQL, JDBC, Swing UI, Maven
This project demonstrates strong understanding of financial transaction systems, database design principles, and enterprise application architecture.