Willard Peralta Jr.

Kihei, Hawaii 96753 USA

808-385-5380

Interests

Software Engineering , Web Development , AI

Skills

Languages and Frameworks: Java, Python, Javascript, HTML/CSS, React, C, Bash, C#

Toolsets/OS: Git, NPM, Webpack, Jenkins, Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket, REST APIs, Windows, Linux, Android

Education

University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI

B.S., Computer Science

2017 - 2020

University of Hawaii Maui College, Kahului, HI

A.A., Liberal Arts

2015 - 2017

Work

Application Engineer, RCUH

www.rcuh.com/

Designed, developed, tested, researched, and supported software applications at the MHPCC in order to provide HPC resources to DoD scientists and engineers, providing a low barrier to entry for novice HPC users as well as streamline work for advanced users.

  • Development: Developed Single Page Applications with HTML, CSS, React and other modern web technologies. Supported and improved an existing HPC Portal web application that provides convenient web access to DoD HPC resources and applications such as HPC Batch Job submission.
  • UI/UX design: Created basic wireframes, mockups, and prototypes. Basic Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe XD skills
  • R&D for HPC interfaces: Conducted research of state of the art technologies in order to improve existing HPCUI solutions including cloud video streaming tech, user interfaces for Job management, and ML/AI platforms for handling Job workflows
  • Technical Support: provided technical support and general administration of an Atlassian Tools centered web environment, Jira Project administration, Confluence Space migration

2021 - Present

Data Visualization Intern, RCUH

www.rcuh.com/

Developed web based visualization tool to visualize cyber security data with Python

  • Built web based visualization illustrating large scale DoD cyber security data, which would integrate with another machine learning anomaly detection research project
  • Researched, proposed, and implemented best tooling and processes which included a mix of Python, Numpy, Matplotlib, NetworkX, and Bokeh
  • Improved number of visualized nodes by 1000%, from 10,000 nodes to 1,000,000 nodes
  • Communicated with team twice daily via remote meetings to prioritize tasks and set goals
  • Delivered five technical presentations to directors, mentors, and other interns

2020 - 2020

Software Engineering Intern, Hawaii State Digital Archives

Developed OCR web-microservice with Java

  • Developed Optical Character Recognition web micro-service using tools such as Java, Git, Atlassian Tools, Maven, and Eclipse
  • Independently researched Java OCR libraries and determined best library
  • As Agile/Scrum devteam member, carried out dev tasks based on user stories using object-oriented programming, and communicated progress in daily stand ups
  • Initiated the creation of documentation for merging branches and version control

2019 - 2019

Video Editor, Hifocused Cinematography

www.hifocused.com

Edited wedding films with Adobe Premiere Pro CC and Adobe Media Encoder

  • Edited over 200+ professional wedding films
  • Synced video and audio, color corrected, organized footage, exported video files
  • Edited full wedding highlight, feature, and doc videos in Adobe Premiere Pro CC using creative cinematic storytelling techniques to create complex wedding day narratives.

2015 - 2020