Oliver Catania
Software Developer
Bachelors student pursuing a Masters in Computer Science at the University of Guelph
About
I’m a student of Computing and Mathematics at the University of Guelph (Dean’s Honour). I’m passionate about full-stack development and software engineering. I enjoy the balance of creativity and problem-solving that comes with building complete applications — from polished user interfaces to reliable back-end systems — and turning rough ideas into intuitive, user-focused products.
Outside of coding, I spend time playing guitar, piano, and drums, and I’ve performed live twice as part of a group at the Annual Hart House Festival of Music at the University of Toronto.
Projects
Audio File Game - guitar-zero.com
Website where you upload a song, and get a Guitar Hero style note highway for your specific song. Python backend splits the components of the track, finds its beats, detects the notes and melodies, then classifies it into lanes. The react frontent produces the visual highway.
E-Commerce Basket & RFM Analytics Platform
Built a full-stack analytics platform for cleaning and analyzing large retail datasets. The system supports data ingestion, asynchronous cleaning, manual review, Excel export, RFM customer analysis, and purchasing-pattern analysis.
Decryption Using MPI
MPI-parallel C program that encrypts text to ciphertext, then brute-forces decryptions by permuting words and cross-referencing a dictionary. Includes serial + MPI decryptors, runtime logging, and CSV/Python tooling for performance tests.