Note for Substack: My start date availability is May/August 2026. It's a weird UTD masters thing.
Oluwapelps
Profile

Hey I'm Pelumi

I'm a Computer Engineering Student at UT Dallas. I love fun projects and products. From backend development to hardware design, I enjoy every aspect of building products.

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My Journey

Software
Hardware
August 2024 -- August 2026
EDUCATION

University of Texas at Dallas

MS in Computer Engineering
  • GPA: 3.78/4.0
June 2025 - Present
EXPERIENCE

Research Systems Engineer (ML/Internal Tools)

University of Texas at Dallas
  • Developed automated Python pipelines to orchestrate synthesis workflows, reducing research iteration cycles by 30%.
  • Engineered custom Docker environments to standardize tooling and deployment across high-performance clusters.
  • Collaborated with researchers to define performance metrics and optimize model inference latency by 15%.
August 2020 -- May 2024
EDUCATION

University of Texas at Dallas

BS in Computer Engineering
  • GPA: 3.68/4.0
June 2023 - August 2023
EXPERIENCE

Software Engineer Intern

7-Eleven
Irving, TX
  • Enhanced internal admin tools using ReactJS, with pinned table functionality to improve workflow for 50+ operators.
  • Standardized backend API documentation by implementing JSDocs, significantly improving developer onboarding speed.
  • Refactored authentication logic to integrate updated AWS Active Directory (AD) groups across the legacy portal codebase.
May 2022 - August 2022
EXPERIENCE

Software Engineer Intern

Amazon Web Services
Remote
  • Designed and built an internal resource tagging tool for the Insights Data team, reducing on-call operational load.
  • Authored a comprehensive technical design document detailing AWS cost estimates, architecture, and security implications.

Jonze: Campus Organization Management SaaS

  • Architected a member tracking platform for student organizations, enabling leaders to manage recruitment data.
  • Built a dynamic form builder, allowing student leaders to define custom schema validations for new member applications.
  • Developed a high-performance REST API using Hono and OpenAPI, allowing organizations to embed event calendars into external sites.
  • Designed complex SQL queries and a tabular UI, empowering leaders to filter, visualize, and extract custom member data.
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Kazala: Event Ticketing System

  • Led a 4-person engineering team to ship a platform that processed over $70k in gross transaction volume for events.
  • Designed the end-to-end attendee check-in flow, building a custom QR Code Scanner that reduced entry friction for thousands of students.
  • Engineered a reservation locking system to resolve high-concurrency ticket purchase race conditions.
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Sakpa: Services Marketplace (iOS & Web)

  • Owned the full mobile product lifecycle, launching a React Native app with Push Notifications and Deep Linking.
  • Navigated the strict App Store review process, successfully resolving complex user authentication and login compliance issues.
  • Engineered a real-time negotiation system using Ably/WebSockets and deployed the backend on Kubernetes.
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Embedded Linux/Hardware Co-Design (AES-128)

  • Engineered a full-stack hardware/software system on a Cyclone V SoC, running Embedded Linux.
  • Developed C-based userspace drivers to interface with memory-mapped FPGA hardware via an AXI bridge.
  • Solved critical Endianness mismatches (ARM vs. Network byte order) through custom low-level bit-packing algorithms.

Upcoming Projects

Anime Recommender

A recommendation server that is trained on the MyAnimeList Dataset

Automatic Swear Jar

An Automatic Speech Recognition model(ASR) to control my profanity

Website Controlled RC Car

A route on this website to stream and control an RC Car of mine