Discover,Design,Develop,Stand out.
Hi, I'm Andrew Dryfoos
I'm a developer passionate about crafting meaningful user experiences. With a focus on human-computer interaction, I combine my love for gaming with designing better experiences for users.
Education
Master's in Interactive Media
Elon University, 2024
Bachelor's in Computer Science
Elon University, 2023
Featured Projects
EldenSmash
A full-stack swipe-voting app for 450+ Elden Ring characters that went viral on Reddit, reaching 70,000+ interactions in 4 days while staying up on serverless infrastructure. Features a resilient vote API with idempotency keys, per-user/IP rate limiting, request deduplication, anonymous-to-authenticated vote syncing via signed session cookies, real-time leaderboards, and server-rendered shareable profiles with dynamic OG image generation.
CoffeeJG Course Platform
A full-stack SaaS education platform for a content creator with Stripe-integrated payments (subscriptions + one-time), webhook-driven enrollment, and an admin CMS with a Plate.js rich text editor. Hardened with Turnstile bot protection, server-side session cookies with revocation checks, webhook signature verification, idempotent enrollment, and server-only video URL resolution. Includes a resource hub with 176+ curated assets, full-text search, tag/source filters, and a favorites system with optimistic UI.
Elon Esports SSBU Power Rankings
A tournament tracker for Elon University's esports club, replacing spreadsheets with a SQL-backed system managing 1,000+ records across players, tournaments, and head-to-head sets. Features a weighted scoring algorithm that normalizes placements across tournament sizes, atomic merge/unmerge via Postgres RPC functions with advisory locks, and start.gg GraphQL API integration for automated tournament imports with deferred set processing—cutting response times from 15s to 2s.
AI Smart Mirror — Graduate Capstone
An interactive installation built with a Raspberry Pi, camera, and one-way glass that captures a user's image, generates an AI portrait via the OpenAI API, and displays it as a reflection—designed as social commentary on bias in AI image generation. Featured at Elon University's Interactive Media Capstone Exhibition as a self-contained physical installation integrating hardware and software.
Prescription Helper
A modern, user-centric design crafted to streamline medication tracking and interaction management, leveraging intuitive analytics and sleek visuals for an enhanced user experience.
League of Legends Interface Testing
A comprehensive usability study examining the League of Legends client interface. The research includes user testing sessions, heuristic evaluation, and concrete recommendations for improving player experience.
This Portfolio
This portfolio showcases my projects, including the source code and Figma design. It highlights my design and development skills, combining intuitive visuals with functional coding.
Lifelong Skills Training Inc
A family-centered organization that empowers youth with disabilities and their families through creative, developmental, life, and vocational skills programs. Lifelong fosters inclusion and advocacy for a brighter future.
EldenSmash
A full-stack swipe-voting app for 450+ Elden Ring characters that went viral on Reddit, reaching 70,000+ interactions in 4 days while staying up on serverless infrastructure. Features a resilient vote API with idempotency keys, per-user/IP rate limiting, request deduplication, anonymous-to-authenticated vote syncing via signed session cookies, real-time leaderboards, and server-rendered shareable profiles with dynamic OG image generation.
CoffeeJG Course Platform
A full-stack SaaS education platform for a content creator with Stripe-integrated payments (subscriptions + one-time), webhook-driven enrollment, and an admin CMS with a Plate.js rich text editor. Hardened with Turnstile bot protection, server-side session cookies with revocation checks, webhook signature verification, idempotent enrollment, and server-only video URL resolution. Includes a resource hub with 176+ curated assets, full-text search, tag/source filters, and a favorites system with optimistic UI.
Elon Esports SSBU Power Rankings
A tournament tracker for Elon University's esports club, replacing spreadsheets with a SQL-backed system managing 1,000+ records across players, tournaments, and head-to-head sets. Features a weighted scoring algorithm that normalizes placements across tournament sizes, atomic merge/unmerge via Postgres RPC functions with advisory locks, and start.gg GraphQL API integration for automated tournament imports with deferred set processing—cutting response times from 15s to 2s.
AI Smart Mirror — Graduate Capstone
An interactive installation built with a Raspberry Pi, camera, and one-way glass that captures a user's image, generates an AI portrait via the OpenAI API, and displays it as a reflection—designed as social commentary on bias in AI image generation. Featured at Elon University's Interactive Media Capstone Exhibition as a self-contained physical installation integrating hardware and software.
Prescription Helper
A modern, user-centric design crafted to streamline medication tracking and interaction management, leveraging intuitive analytics and sleek visuals for an enhanced user experience.
League of Legends Interface Testing
A comprehensive usability study examining the League of Legends client interface. The research includes user testing sessions, heuristic evaluation, and concrete recommendations for improving player experience.
This Portfolio
This portfolio showcases my projects, including the source code and Figma design. It highlights my design and development skills, combining intuitive visuals with functional coding.
Lifelong Skills Training Inc
A family-centered organization that empowers youth with disabilities and their families through creative, developmental, life, and vocational skills programs. Lifelong fosters inclusion and advocacy for a brighter future.
Experience history
Master's in Interactive Media
Website Development
BS CS
Software Engineer Intern
Technical skills
React
Building interactive UIs
Next.js
Full-stack React framework
TypeScript
Type-safe JavaScript
Tailwind
Utility-first CSS
Framer Motion
Animation library
Node.js
JavaScript runtime
Python
General-purpose programming
MongoDB
NoSQL Database
PostgreSQL
Relational database
Git
Version control
Figma
Design & prototyping
Prisma
Modern database toolkit