About Trey || Trey Manuszak

“Only those who attempt the absurd…will achieve the impossible. I think… I think it’s in my basement. Let me go upstairs and check.”
— M.C. Escher

Engineering

Current Interests

Rust 🦀, FPGA development, Zero-knowledge Proofs, Category Theory applied to programming.

2023 - Present: Veeva Systems — Fixing production and crafting useful tools.
2021: Asure Software — PGP, SFTP, and ACH app development.
2021 - 2022: Master’s in Computer Science at Arizona State University, 4.0 GPA 😎

Cool Personal Projects:
- HelpMeHike, an AWS-hosted Android app extracting hikers’ heart rates from facial video using remote photoplethysmography (rPPG).
- Global time-optimal logistics scheduler using Answer Set Programming.
- Auto-scaling Image Recognition models (ResNet18) on AWS EC2/S3.
Coursework:
- Randomized and Approximation Algorithms, Applied Cryptography, Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, Knowledge Representation & Reasoning, Secure Microkernel Designs, Engineering Blockchain Applications, Semantic Web Mining, Distributed Database Systems, Statistical Machine Learning
2021 - 2022: Adaptive & Secure Computing Systems Laboratory — Post-quantum Cryptography, Threshold Cryptography, Coding Theory, and Zero-knowledge Proofs research.
2018 - 2020: Project Euler — Reached the Top 1% of solvers globally using Python, armed with no formal algorithmic training.

Project Euler Profile
2018: First Code 🎉 — Wrote my first major program in a Java intro class to find the n-th number in the Hofstadter Q sequence, inspired by Gödel, Escher, Bach.

Math

Current Interests

Returning to a deep study of Measure Theory, Real Analysis, and a multi-year rabbit hole into the mechanics of the global financial plumbing (understanding what money actually is via the Eurodollar system).

2018 - 2021: Bachelor’s in Mathematics at Arizona State University, 3.81 GPA, Summa Cum Laude 🧠

Coursework:
- Applied Linear Algebra, Intro to Real Analysis, Real Analysis I, Real Analysis II / Intro to Measure Theory, Ring Theory, Group Theory, Number Theory, Advanced Linear Algebra
2017 - 2021: Math Tutoring — Tutored university students in various mathematics disciplines.
2019 - 2020: Secondary Education — Completed student teaching for secondary mathematics.

Travel

One of my life’s goals is to join the Travelers’ Century Club, a club for those who have visited 100 or more of the world’s countries and territories. I am currently at 40/330.

2025: Japan, Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali, Timor, Indonesia), Singapore
2024: England, Scotland, Canada
2021: Guatemala
2020: Mexico
2019: Mexico, Singapore, Taiwan
2018: Colombia, South Korea, Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand, Japan
2017: Czech Republic, Denmark
2016: China, North Korea, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Srpska (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, France, Belgium
2014: Sint Maarten (Netherlands), St. Martin (France), Bahamas
2010: Bahamas
2009: Mexico
1995: USA