ABOUT ME
I'm Kyra! (kai-rah)
I was born and raised in Hawaiʻi.
In my free time, I love to surf and create content for various cosmetic
brands!
To all of my endeavors, I bring the best of both worlds: logic and art!
EXPERIENCE
June 2021 - Aug 2021
Akamai Workforce Initiative Summer Intern
Subaru Telescope
- Implemented Ginga, a toolkit of GUI widgets for building image viewers, to operate on the web using Python, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
- Added dynamic functionalities to various Ginga widgets
- Utilized JavaScript JQWidgets Library and JQuery UI to construct the GUI widgets
Fall 2021, Fall - Spring 2020
President, Vice President
SWITCH-UHM
- Coordinated events with various speakers and between academic clubs
- Served as a liaison between the Computer Science community and the organization
Aug 2020 – Dec 2020
ICS Assistant TA
University of Hawaii at Manoa
- Assisted ICS class laboratories three times per week
- Created a lesson plan and instructed a week of laboratories
PROJECTS
Coastar
- A mobile and web application that streamlines the process of reporting marine wildlife sightings to Hawai’i Marine Animal Response (HMAR)
- Primarily worked on front-end design and construction of the reports pages using JavaScript, Meteor, and Semantic UI React
- Implemented the functionality to export all data to a CSV file using HTML
Shocking Developments
- A web application for customers to monitor their greenhouse gas emissions based on their current transportation and compare usage/costs to other methods
- Primarily worked on front-end design using Semantic UI React
- Assisted with organizing data collections and methods for calculating greenhouse gas emissions
Contact Me!
Add me on LinkedIn!
Or shoot me an email at kyraikeda@gmail.com :)