Kevin Henderson


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🛰️ About Me

• 🔭 Currently building clearCore — a transparent, educational MIPS CPU simulator with a 5-stage pipeline, hazard detection, data forwarding, and a hand-rolled terminal UI datapath visualizer built on FTXUI
• 🎛️ Also working on sonic-forge-dsp — a real-time C++ DSP library for modular synthesis and low-latency audio
• 📐 Deep into computer architecture, digital logic, and low-level systems programming — I like understanding software down to the instruction cycle
• 🖥️ Daily driver: Fedora 44 with KDE Plasma, CLion as my IDE of choice
• 🎹 Synth enthusiast — JUCE and VCV Rack show up in my toolbox for a reason
• 🌱 Fresh Graduate from my local Computer Science program at University of Texas at San Antonio
• 💬 *"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."*

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🚀 Technical Expertise

| Category | Technologies |
|---|---|
| Languages | !Python !C !C++ !Java !JavaScript !TypeScript !Zig !SQL !Bash |
| Systems & Low-Level | !CMake !GCC !Make !Linux |
| Web & Frameworks | !React !Next.js !FastAPI !Node.js !Tailwind |
| Cloud & DevOps | !AWS !Docker !Git !GitHub Actions |
| AI & Data | !IBM Watsonx !Pandas !LangChain |
| Creative Tech | !JUCE !VCV Rack |
| Tools & Editors | !CLion !VS Code !Vim |

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🧠 Featured Projects



clearCore — A transparent, educational MIPS CPU emulator with a high-performance terminal UI. 5-stage pipeline, hazard detection, data forwarding, pluggable processor models, and a Patterson & Hennessy–style animated datapath diagram rendered directly on FTXUI's canvas. Built in C++20.

sonic-forge-dsp — A high-performance, real-time C++ digital signal processing library for modular synthesis and low-latency audio applications.

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📊 GitHub Stats

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*"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."*

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