Hi! I'm Pete Stenger!
I'm a software developer at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (UIUC) studying computer science. I'm passionate about open source software, cybersecurity, and education.
Currently...
- In my fourth year of a combined 3+1 undergraduate/graduate MCS program.
- A TA for CS 425
- I was the president for SIGPwny, an ACM special interest group focused on cybersecurity and the largest educational RSO on campus.
- I was a software developer for Hack4Impact, where I programmed for nonprofits.
Showcase
A website that helps students find apartments near the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Wrote a web scraper for around 15 rental agencies on campus. Fetch new listings every day and provide a frontend for students to search for apartments.
Worked with the nonprofit Coko to improve their open-source manuscript publishing system. Refactored the dashboard page into an extensible table system, and hooked up the tables with GraphQL to Postgres for filtering and sorting.
Cybersecurity Intern @ Battelle (Summer 2021)
Reverse-engineered a closed-source ARM-based modem and modified functionality in order to exfiltrate valuable cellular data typically disarded. Wrote an emulator for a .NET debugging tool and wrote Ghidra plugins to aid in reverse-engineering.
Full-Stack Intern @ Fifth Eye (Summer 2020)
Interned at a medical technology startup, creating a webapp to manage hospital deployments. It performs AWS provisioning and displays AWS CloudWatch statistics. Deployment management triggers CircleCI actions.
Compete in cybersecurity "Capture the Flag" competitions at a high level. Am a key team player, especially focused on reverse-engineering. Ranked 47th in the world out of 10000+ teams, and the second best US collegiate team.