Software Engineer.
I learn fast, I ship fast
I'm Kenzo, a CS student at the University of Florida pursuing a career as a Software Engineer. I develop full-stack and mobile apps, and I love making software that helps people. Off the clock I'm on the volleyball court, in the water surfing, on a board, or back home cooking, gaming, and playing guitar.
I ship under tight deadlines and learn by doing. This year I cut cost and latency out of media pipelines at Vobile, co-founded and deployed BeachLens to 5,000+ users, and led the team at SASE to successfully ship our semester project. I'm usually the one who volunteers and is always down to try something new.
- SWE Intern at Vobile, optimizing media pipelines for studios like Netflix and Disney.
- CTO at BeachLens, a real-time beach data app with 5,000+ users.
Skills & Technologies
The languages, frameworks, and infrastructure I reach for, plus the ones I am happy to learn next.
Languages
Frameworks & Libraries
Infrastructure & Tools
University of Florida
B.S. Computer Science, Minor in Business
2024 to May 2028 · GPA 3.76
- Dean's List (2024 to 2025)
- Nvidia Fundamentals of Deep Learning
- CS50 Intro to AI
Experience
Software Engineering Intern · Vobile Group
Jan 2026 to PresentInternshipGainesville, FLHigh tide · nowBuilding and optimizing the media pipelines that ingest and match content at scale for major studios.
- Reduced data size by 15% by migrating JSON serialization to binary MessagePack across Django and RabbitMQ.
- Grew weekly video metadata discovery by 300k+ records by tapping YouTube recommendation signals and optimizing a Conductor workflow deployed via Helm and Flux GitOps on Kubernetes.
- Cut $15,000 in monthly cost and enabled daily processing of 1,000+ assets by engineering TypeScript batching and compression for clients like Netflix, Disney, Sony, and Warner Bros.
- Achieved 3.5x throughput and resolved 100+ errors by overhauling a Celery and RabbitMQ pipeline.
- Resolved 30+ media endpoints in Node.js using an agentic LLM-based web scraper generator and prompt tuning.
PythonDjangoRabbitMQKubernetesHelmTypeScript
CTO & Software Engineer · BeachLens
Dec 2025 to PresentFounderGainesville, FLHigh tide · nowCo-founding a real-time beach data app that turns messy environmental feeds into clear, safe go or no-go calls.
- Built and shipped a real-time beach data iOS app to 5,000+ users on the App Store with React Native.
- Engineered a serverless ELT pipeline that unifies 11+ heterogeneous weather and water condition streams in real time.
- Led a team of 11 through Agile sprints to ship a NOAA-backed beach data app.
- Developed a recommendation engine using predictive modeling to surface safety insights from user analytics.
React NativeSwiftServerlessELTNOAA
Software Engineering Lead · SASE Web Development Team
Sep 2025 to May 2026Part-timeGainesville, FLLeading a student engineering org to design and ship an AI advisor for members.
- Led a 30 member org to launch an AI Advisor, managing three technical sub-teams with Scrum.
- Architected a React frontend, ran code reviews, and led workshops on Git, React, and REST APIs.
ReactRESTGitScrum
Software Engineering Intern · The Bean Code
Sep 2025 to Dec 2025InternshipRemoteBuilt the backend that powers a resume and video interview matching engine.
- Engineered an asynchronous FastAPI backend with indexed PostgreSQL schemas that offload resumes and video interviews to S3 to cut database latency.
- Automated resume parsing with Regex and NLP to structure raw text into JSON for the matching engine.
FastAPIPostgreSQLAWS S3NLP
Projects
Let's make something.
I'm always down to chat, whatever it's about. I'm in it for the love of the game so don’t be a stranger.