I made a tesla coil for IEEE @ UCLA as a part of our SPI(Student Project Initiative) program last academic year(23-24). I will clean this project folder up once I get more time, but up until then this page has some things randomly thrown together in 5 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQQ5QSLk5Dg

I definitely should not forget to mention that I learned a lot from loneoceans. His SSTC 2: https://loneoceans.com/labs/sstc2, has a lot of good lessons for anyone looking to build their own tesla coil. If you look at my design, you should be able to notice a fair chunk of inspiration in the gate driver circuit.

Another quick acknowledgement: David Zheng, who has now graduated helped me a lot. Things that I did not learn from Loneoceans I learned from David.