Engineer by craft, beach kid by default.
I'm Kenzo, a CS student at the University of Florida and a software engineer who genuinely likes the whole arc of a problem, from the first messy sketch to the last rough edge before it ships. I live mostly on the full stack: typed backends, data pipelines that have to stay honest, and interfaces that feel good in the hand.
I move fast and I learn out loud. This year that has looked like cutting cost and latency out of media pipelines at Vobile, co-founding BeachLens and shipping it to a few thousand people, and leading a 30 person web team at SASE. I'm usually the one who volunteers for the unfamiliar tool so nobody else has to wait on it.
Off the keyboard I'm in the water, on a board, or with my SASE friends (yes, that is me in the lei). Surfing taught me most of what I know about shipping: read the set, commit to the line, and stay calm when it changes on you.
- Interning at Vobile, optimizing media pipelines for studios like Netflix and Disney.
- Co-founding BeachLens, a real-time beach data app with 4,000+ users.
- Leading the web development team at UF's chapter of SASE.
- Picking up Rust on weekends and chasing clean morning surf.
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
From early internships to leading teams and co-founding a startup. A steady climb, one wave at a time.
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 Claude Skill web scraper generator and prompt tuning.
PythonDjangoRabbitMQKubernetesHelmTypeScript
Co-Founder, 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 4,000+ 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
Personal projects and hackathon wins. Every card opens its own page, with the story, the stack, and what I took away.
Let's make something. Or just talk shop.
I'm always up for a good problem, a new team, or a long tangent about the ocean. Email is the fastest way to reach me, and I read every one.