# Arcade W. (@arcades.agency)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/arcades.agency
Headline: Gap Year Fellow @ Hack Club: I design programs that get teens to ship real software!
Website: https://arcades.agency

## About

I design programs at Hack Club, with a goal to get teenagers to build and ship real software. We call these YSWS ("You Ship, We Ship"), where I've focused on short, themed challenges with a reward on the other end: i.e. ship a project built on randomness and we ship you a custom dice set (Entropy); compose a track in Sonic Pi and it lands on a Bandcamp album (Tape to Tape).Designing one means doing both the incentive design (which is easy) and the infrastructure (harder). For a smaller one, this involves: Astro sites on Cloudflare Pages, GitHub App repo provisioning, Fillout and Vercel APIs, DNS automation, custom review tools, etc.

The through-line I try to keep is making computing more fun, and more human. I care about local-first software (CRDTs, data sovereignty, offline-first), mesh networking, and permacomputing, and I volunteer on Folk Computer's projected-AR system. Right now I'm building Lamplight, a note-taking app that squishes Realtalk-style rules together with Datalog (more to come soon!)I keep an open "lab" notebook at arcades.agency/log and /blog On leave from Cornell College (CS & German Studies) for the 2026–27 fellowship year, future education pending.

## Career

- **YSWS Program Lead at Hack Club** (Jun 2026 - Present)
  Fellowship · Burlington · On-site
- **Systems Administrator at Cornell College** (Oct 2025 - May 2026)
  Mount Vernon
  As a sysadmin for the Cornell College CS Department, I've managed a large legacy cluster of proxmox systems, and built out an entirely new proxmox cluster, as well as built new documentation and tooling so that my successors at this position will have an easier time understanding.
  
  I revamped the entire SOPs from a long Google Doc into a useful MediaWiki, with associated scripts and tooling to make new user creation and other things much easier.
- **Freelance Software Engineer at Vivoh** (Nov 2023 - May 2025)

## Skills

### Technical
- C (Programming Language)
- C++
- Deno
- JavaScript
- Linux
- Python (Programming Language)
- Rust (Programming Language)
- System Administration
- TypeScript
### Other
- 3D Modeling
- Agile Methodologies
- Blockchain
- Broadcast Production
- Communication
- Compiler Construction
- Computer Simulations
- Continuous Integration (CI)
- Design
- Education
- Engineering
- French
- Functional Programming
- German
- Graphics Software
- Human Computer Interaction
- Information Technology Infrastructure
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Product Design
- Program Management
- Project Management
- Projection
- Proxmox
- Public Speaking
- Reverse Engineering
- Software Development
- TCL
- Technical Documentation
- Web Design
- Ethereum
- Forth
- GDScript
- Godot
- Gstreamer
- OCaml
- Projection Mapping
- Quic

## Projects

- **I Can't Believe It's Not Forth** (Oct 2023 - Present)
  I CAN'T BELIEVE ITS NOT {FORTH}! is a forth-like stack-based language, with a web UI and a goal of being used to make little widgets everywhere.
- **Great Subterranean Realms** (Aug 2024 - Sep 2024)
  I made a zork-inspired 3D point and click game, based off the aesthetics of games like Myst in about 2 weeks! This was for a class, and I used a one-person agile board (a bit overkill) to practice for industry.
- **fucc** (Mar 2023 - Apr 2023)
  An optimizing Brainfuck compiler, built as an exercise to learn OCaml.
- **dialect** (Nov 2021 - Dec 2021)
  Dialect is well, just that! It's a JS-like language that compiles to continuation-passing style JS, and can be made into a format suitable for web apps.

## Publications

- what arcade believes about computing — arcades.agency (Aug 2026) https://arcades.agency/what_arcade_believes_about_computing.html
- hellorld — arcades.agency (Aug 2026) https://arcades.agency/hellorld.html

## Credentials

- Deutsch C1 (DSD II) — Kulturministerkonferenz (Dec 2023)
- Deutches Sprach Diplom Stuffe I — Kulturministerkonferenz
- telc Deutsch A2 — The German School of Atlanta

## Education

- **Georgia Institute of Technology** — BridgeUP STEM
- **Cornell College** — Bachelor's degree (Aug 2025 - May 2027)
  Currently on a Gap Year @Hack Club, after 1 year at Cornell
  Activities & Societies: Radio, German, Computer Science, Phi Kappa Nu.
- **Innovation Academy Alpharetta** — High School Diploma (2021 - May 2025)

## Awards

- NCWIT Georgia Honorable Mention (Sep 2021)

## Involvement

### Volunteering
- Computer Museum Of America (Dec 2023 - Present)
  Volunteer
  I lead tours, help arrange the floor, help organize and run events, and best of all get to share my passion for the history of computing.
- Folk.computer (May 2023 - Present)
  Volunteer/Contributor
  \- PNG rendering code, which is used in all of the SDF rendering technology.
  \- Error handling
  \- Orbital mechanics simulator
  \- Many guides and resources
- The Forge Roswell (Jun 2021 - Present)
  Event Staff
  I help manage and run multiple CrossFit competitions

## Languages

- German (native)
- French (professional working)

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/l3gacyb3ta (verified)
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arcade-wise
- Personal Website: https://arcades.agency (verified)