12:00 PM
📄 Nate Kupec — Portfolio
_
□
✕
About Me

Hi! I am Nate and I am pursuing a B.S Electrical Engineering and a B.S Computer Engineering at West Virginia University. I am obsessed with microelectronics and circuit design. I like to program as a hobby as well as skateboard and snowboard!

EE GPA: 3.86
CpE GPA: 3.88
Skills & Proficiency
VHDL / Verilog
90%
FPGA (Quartus Prime)
85%
LTSpice / CMOS Sim
85%
C / C++
80%
Python
80%
GoLang
70%
MATLAB
70%
SQL / MySQL
65%
Bench Instruments
80%
Assembly (x86/6502)
75%
Projects
1 6502 Breadboard Computer

Built a 6502-based breadboard computer from scratch. Assembled the full system including clock circuit, 6502 CPU, RAM, ROM, and I/O. Programmed in 6502 assembly to understand low-level CPU operation, bus architecture, and memory-mapped I/O.

6502 ASM Hardware Breadboard
2 CPU Design

Designed and synthesized a fully functional CPU in VHDL. Features ALU, Control Unit, Program Counter, register file, and 8×32 memory. Deployed on physical FPGA hardware with simulation testbenches.

VHDL Quartus FPGA
3 CMOS Logic Design

Simulated CMOS inverter and multi-transistor logic circuits in LTSpice. Optimized PMOS W/L ratios for symmetric switching; verified noise margins with 0.15V tolerance via VIL/VIH/VOL/VOH extraction.

LTSpice MATLAB Excel
4 Steam Market API

Concurrent GoLang scraper collecting live CS2 item pricing through a distributed SOCKS5 proxy pool. Stored in structured MySQL schema as a standalone pricing backend.

GoLang MySQL Git
5 Elder Abuse Monitor

Won 2 categories at SteelHacks XII (500+ participants). Built elder abuse monitoring software in <24 hrs using Python ML to process and categorize audio speech.

Python ML 🏆 2x Winner
Experience
★
SteelHacks XII — 2 Category Wins
University of Pittsburgh Hackathon
September 2025
Won Healthcare Optimization and Civics & Accessibility categories out of 500+ participants. Built elder abuse monitoring software in under 24 hours.
◆
Client Supervisor
ResiVPN
Oct 2023 – Nov 2024
Wrote Windows PowerShell automation to resolve recurring client issues, reducing manual intervention time for common failure cases.
●
Founder, WVU Pool Club
West Virginia University
April 2026 – Present
Founded Pool Club to play billiards and create a community of like-minded people.
Contact
📧 Email nate@kupec.us
🐙 GitHub github.com/neight777
🎓 School West Virginia University
Do or die slow
WVU — Morgantown, WV