Shawn Neill - Software Engineering Student

Hi, I'm Shawn Neill

Software Engineer

Full Stack Developer

AI/ML Practitioner

CS Masters Student

A passionate software engineering student with expertise in software engineering, full stack development, and AI/ML. Currently pursuing my Master's in Computer Science at Arizona State University.

Featured Projects

A showcase of my recent work and technical projects

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MAPI
Hackathon

Sunhacks 2025

A social planning and travel platform helping students stay connected, discover new places, and create unforgettable memories.

Gemini AI
Google Maps API
Firebase
React
TypeScript
Next.js
+3

Key Features:

  • Designed and launched a social location sharing platform enabling real time location sharing and messaging for estimated 50K+ active users
  • Reduced group coordination time by ~40% through an AI powered triangulation system that suggested optimal meeting points and personalized activities
  • Delivered a seamless user experience with <200ms real time chat latency and 100% uptime during live demos
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Drone Turbulence Navigator

Generate turbulance data from any map/image and determine the best path for drone navigation between two points.

C++
OpenCV
Microsoft Visual Studio

Key Features:

  • Designed a computer vision pipeline using OpenCV's Sobel edge detection to generate turbulence cost maps for efficient drone navigation with 95% accuracy
  • Implemented Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm achieving optimal pathfinding and reducing error by over 25%
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CaptionMate
Hackathon

Sunhacks 2024

Amazon - Best Use of AWS
MLH - Most Creative Adobe Express Add-On

An Adobe Express add-on that can transcribe and translate your video's audio into a different language.

AWS
React
TypeScript
Node.js
Adobe-Spectrum UI

Key Features:

  • Developed an Adobe Express add-on that translates video/audio transcripts into any language
  • Designed a serverless backend using AWS Lambda and S3, enabling seamless processing of Base64 encoded files into Amazon Transcribe and Translate models

Skills & Technologies

Technologies and tools I work with to build amazing software

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11 languages technologies

Experience

My professional journey and key experiences

Software Engineering Intern

AI Quotient, Inc.

Tempe, Arizona

work

May 2025 - Present

Python
Claude
Pillow
NumPy
pandas
  • Developed an agentic AI system in Python using Claude to intelligently route user prompts to 4+ specialized synthetic data generators, reducing task resolution time by over 60%
  • Integrated Pillow, NumPy, and pandas to develop a synthetic image dataset generator for segmentation and classification model training
  • Designed 2 microservice agents with LLM integration, enabling flexible task handling and reducing orchestration overhead by over 85%
Full Stack Development Intern

AI Quotient, Inc.

Tempe, Arizona

work

January 2025 - May 2025

React Native
TypeScript
Node.js
Firebase
Expo
Google Cloud Platform
  • Developed a cross-platform mobile app using React Native, Node.js, and Firebase for food inventory management
  • Integrated barcode scanning with Expo and Google Cloud Vision API to automate food recognition, reducing manual input time by over 70%
  • Implemented secure authentication with Firebase Authentication and Google OAuth, integrating Firestore for real-time inventory tracking
Software Engineering Intern

TAU-XYZ

Mesa, Arizona

work

June 2024 - August 2024

React
TypeScript
JavaScript
PostgreSQL
F#
API
JSON
  • Built React components to visualize parsed JSON event streams, improving data readability and interactivity
  • Integrated third-party APIs for real-time Algorand network transactions, increasing user engagement by 20%
  • Created a Twitter bot summarizing 250K+ daily JSON events into leaderboard metrics, generating 60K+ interactions and 300+ followers