MIKE MAEDA / SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Software Engineer.

I study Computer Science and Data Analytics at Alfred University. I build practical software for problems I understand—from offline school records to student support and electronic-waste research.

3.88GPA / 4.0
3Current campus roles
3Selected projects

01 / SELECTED PROJECTS

Selected work.

A selection of software, AI, and data projects I have built.

P-01

Offline school administration

2025

School Management System

An offline-capable records system inspired by schools in Tanzania that still depend on paper-based administration and unreliable internet.

JavaPythonSQLSQLite
KEY RESULT

Manages more than 1,000 records without requiring internet access.

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P-02

Grounded student-life answers

2026

Alfred RAG Assistant

A retrieval-augmented assistant that answers Alfred student-life questions from a small, curated knowledge base and refuses unsupported questions.

PythonChromaDBGroq LLMGradio
KEY RESULT

Evaluated at 80% response accuracy on a focused question set.

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P-03

Student-focused budgeting

2026

Expense Tracker

A full-stack budgeting application with authentication, alerts, exports, and more than 20 REST endpoints.

PythonFlaskJavaScriptSQLiteREST APIsOAuth
KEY RESULT

Delivered more than eight user-facing features across 20+ REST endpoints.

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02 / EXPERIENCE

Work and research experience.

01

May 2026 - Present

Alfred, NY

Python, TensorFlow

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Alfred University, Inamori School of Engineering

  • Building a computer-vision pipeline that identifies electronic-waste components across more than 28,000 images at about 90% validation accuracy.
  • Engineered an end-to-end Python inference and recovery-scoring workflow that improved research processing throughput by 50%.
02

Sep 2025 - Present

Alfred, NY

Microsoft Entra ID, Identity & Access

ITS Student HelpDesk Consultant

Alfred University

  • Support production identity and access systems for more than 2,000 users as one of 13 student consultants.
  • Resolve hardware, software, MFA, account-recovery, and authentication incidents through root-cause troubleshooting and clear documentation.
03

Jan 2026 - Present

Alfred, NY

Excel, Data Analysis

Teaching Assistant, Analytics 101

Alfred University

  • Facilitate Excel-based data analysis sessions for more than 30 students, covering structured formulas, what-if analysis, and financial modeling.

03 / TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages, frameworks, and tools.

Technologies I use across software engineering, data, and AI projects.

mike@alfred: ~/working-set

01Languages

PythonJavaJavaScriptSQLC++CHTML / CSS

02Frameworks & libraries

FlaskReactREST APIsPyTorchTensorFlowScikit-learnNumPy

03Databases & tools

PostgreSQLMySQLSQLiteChromaDBGitLinux

Currently learning more about system design and performance testing.

04 / CONTACT

Get in touch.

If you would like to discuss my work or connect, send me an email.

mhm5@alfred.edu