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 second year of a combined 3+1 undergraduate/graduate MCS program.
- A software developer for Hack4Impact, where I program for nonprofits.
- An admin for SIGPwny, an ACM special interest group focused on cybersecurity and the largest educational RSO on campus.
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.
Built with SvelteKit and TailwindCSS. Blog uses mdsvex. Hosted on Github Pages.
A tool for the cybersecurity club @ UIUC to manage CTFs, and perform other useful actions. Autodeployed with Github Actions.
An in-house CTF platform for the cybersecurity club @ UIUC. Driven by a Github Action that redeploys the latest challenges to the website and challenge infrastructure to the SIGPwny server. Hooks into Discord using webhooks.
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.