Mike Maeda

Projects

No. 012026

Alfred RAG Assistant

A retrieval-augmented generation system that answers student-life questions, built and evaluated end-to-end, including diagnosing a retrieval bug that caused confident, wrong answers.

No. 022026

DistilBERT Sports Discourse Classifier

Fine-tuned a DistilBERT model on a hand-built dataset, then honestly benchmarked it against a much larger zero-shot LLM, and it lost. Here's why that mattered.

No. 03Apr 2026

Expense Tracker

A full-stack expense tracking app with Google OAuth, budget alerts, and 20+ REST endpoints, built and deployed live from scratch.

No. 042026

FitFindr Multi-Tool Agent

A multi-tool AI agent project exploring product search and recommendation workflows.

No. 05Oct - Nov 2025

School Management System

A Java desktop information system backed by a normalized SQLite database, automating records and attendance for 1,000+ academic entries through SQL CRUD operations.

No. 06Nov - Dec 2025

Sales Data Analysis Pipeline

A sales data analysis pipeline using NYC coffee shop transaction data to move from raw data toward defensible business insight.