Contact Me:

Email: sammillecchia@gmail.com

Freelance Work

Blueprint / Short Film Website

• Website created for a local short film in the Maine Mayhem film festival hosted by SMCC
• Dynamically updated blog via a Lambda function that calls Tumblr's API and reformats posts for display
• Frontend design with AWS stack: Amplify, Lambda, DynamoDB

blueprintshortfilm.com

Personal Projects

Mandelbrot Set Generator

• Written in MARS/MIPS assembly to render an ASCII Mandelbrot set fractal
• Emphasizes low-level programming, manual memory management, and computational efficiency

github.com/sammillecchia/mandelbrot-set-ASM

Multiplayer Idle Game

• Full-stack web game hosted on Lightsail with a serverless Lambda/DynamoDB architecture for player data
• Built a local cloud emulation environment using AWS SAM and LocalStack for offline testing before deployment
• Implemented client-side item verification with server-generated cryptographic/PRNG seeds to cut server overhead while preventing cheating

Experience

Production Cook — Rosemont Market & Bakery Aug 2022 – Present

Portland, Maine

• Collaborating within a team to consistently meet high-volume food production targets
• Applying problem-solving and critical thinking to adapt production processes under pressure

Education

Southern Maine Community College Sep 2023 – Dec 2025

South Portland, ME

• A.S. in Computer Science
• Dean's List

University of Southern Maine Jun 2026 – Present

Portland, ME

• Computer Science Major

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