Shade Matsumoto

Data Science Intern

U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Honolulu, HI

• Build AI/ML analytics and decision-support tools on large-scale enterprise data.
• Design data integration pipelines for modernization efforts that improve operational efficiency.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Laboratory for Advanced Visualization & Applications, UH Mānoa

• Write C++ software for interactive scientific visualization, turning multidimensional datasets into responsive 2D and 3D views for large-scale and immersive displays.
• Build real-time rendering and data-processing pipelines, tuning memory use, frame performance, and interaction for large research datasets.

Software Engineering Intern

NOIRLab Gemini Observatory, Hilo, HI

• Built a physics simulation of the telescope's mass-balancing structure in Unreal Engine 5, replacing manual calculation with virtual testing. Estimated to cut part-replacement hours by 50%+.
• Wrote C++ and Python pipelines on Unreal Engine APIs for object data access and asset imports.
• Tuned Nanite parameters for high-fidelity 3D assemblies, cutting frame latency by 15% and VRAM use by 30% versus UE5 defaults.
• Built the simulation's real-time interface, prototyping features with the observatory's engineers.

▶ Play demo

Mass-balance simulation in Unreal Engine 5.

Operations Center Student Assistant

University of Hawaiʻi Information Technology Services

• Resolved 800+ software, hardware, and network issues for students, faculty, and staff through desk-side support and tickets.
• Monitored and diagnosed infrastructure and data center equipment to keep it running.

Da Grindz

Web app for finding food and planning meals on the UH Mānoa campus, built by a seven-person team.

• Owned the vendor data: normalized hours, locations, and payment details for every campus eatery, café, and vending machine into one JSON schema, and automated the migration of legacy data into PostgreSQL.
• Built the interactive campus map, linking each marker to the central vendor records and deferring rendering work to keep it fast on older phones.
• Shipped the data and map in the first milestone, so the team built the meal planner and nutrition features on real data instead of mocks.
• Wrote REST API routes in TypeScript and Node.js that query PostgreSQL; deployed to Vercel with GitHub Actions CI/CD.

stack

Next.js, TypeScript, React Bootstrap, PostgreSQL, Prisma

github

da-grindz/da-grindz

live

da-grindz.vercel.app

Cloud type classifier

Image recognition model that identifies cloud types from sky photos.

• Trained a PyTorch convolutional neural network for cloud type classification, reaching 92% accuracy.
• Built backend services that ingest image uploads along with parsed EXIF metadata and temperature logs.
• Deployed the model on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform as a real-time inference pipeline.

stack

Python, PyTorch

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

B.S. in Computer Science, expected December 2027. Minor in Political Science. GPA 3.94.

Coursework: Operating Systems, Software & Hardware Security, Database Management Systems, Data Structures & Algorithms, Design & Analysis of Algorithms, Systems Programming (C, C++, x86).

Coding Mentor

ACM Programming & Algorithms, Honolulu, HI

• Lead weekly workshops for 10-20 students on data structures, algorithms, and software engineering fundamentals, with interactive coding sessions and one-on-one mentoring.