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.

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In my third year of a combined 3+1 undergraduate/graduate MCS program.
I was a software developer for Hack4Impact, where I programmed for nonprofits.
The president for SIGPwny, an ACM special interest group focused on cybersecurity and the largest educational RSO on campus.

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uiuc-apartments.com

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.

JavascriptPython TypescriptVueGoogle CloudTailwindCSS

Personal website

Built with SvelteKit and TailwindCSS. Blog uses mdsvex. Hosted on Github Pages.

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CTF Discord Bot: pwnybot

A tool for the cybersecurity club @ UIUC to manage CTFs, and perform other useful actions. Autodeployed with Github Actions.

Python CI/CDDiscord.pyDocker

CTF Platform: PwnyCTF

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.

PythonJavascript DockerCI/CDDjangoBootstrap 5

Kotahi: Manuscript Publishing Platform (Fall 2021)

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.

Javascript Node.jsReactGraphQLPostgresDocker

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.

AssemblyCPython GhidraAndroid

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.

Javascript Node.jsReactAWSMaterialUICI/CD

CTF Player for SIGPwny

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.

Organizer - UIUCTF 2020/2021/20221st - Club CTF 20215th - CSAW Finals 20222nd - BuckeyeCTF 2022