Connor Hollenbach's Capstone Blog

I want to use this post to talk about our project. Simply put, it’s doing well! We have reached the comfortable point where we have met all the ‘base’ requirements for the project, so the remaining time is all going towards making things even better. It’s a comfortable place to be because hopefully this means…

I just wrapped up another week of my work for the project. Most of my work was spent handling ‘move conflicts’ in our simulation. For a (simple) example, imagine species 1 wants to move from A -> B. Species 2 wants to move from B -> C. Since our simulation executes all moves in parallel,…

I wanted to use this blog post to reflect on my job hunt last fall and my current employment situation. First off, the obvious – job hunting is the worst. I quit my career in data analytics to do this program full time, so I was motivated to put the leg work in. Last summer,…

Welcome to my first blog post! My name is Connor Hollenbach. I used to work in data analytics but discovered a passion for software development. I currently live in the PNW, and spent the summer working at Salesforce doing fullstack development (C#, React, Typescript). What I love most about software development is the puzzle solving…