Kadon Nakano

Student

I am studying for a B.S. in Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering at University of Hawaii at Manoa. I expect to graduate in Fall, 2026. Seeking an entry-level role to grow skills in building and improving real-world computing systems.

Interests: Software Engineering, Computer Hardware, Audio Hardware, UX Design

Skills:

Languages and Frameworks: C, C++, Java, CSS, Typescript, HTML, Bootstrap, React, NextJS, Prisma

Toolsets/OS: MacOS, Windows, Git/GitHub

Work Experience:

Projects

RPG Beta (Text Adventure) 2025-05-01

Final project for ECE 205: a branching story RPG with turn-based combat driven by JSON.

C++ OOP JSON Game Dev

Student Event Hub 2026

An overview of my Final Project, a web application called Student Event Hub.

Final Project

VideoSeal Watermark Robustness 2025

Analyzing how robust Meta's VideoSeal watermarks are to noise and repeated watermarking. This was done as part of my contribution to my ECE 296 Sophomore Project.

Python PyTorch Neural Watermarking

MW 2024

A brief overview of my experience at MW fine dining and what I learned along the way...

Work

Essays

Coding With a Second Brain: My Experience Using AI in ICS 314

12 May 2026

I. Introduction AI has become a normal part of education because it can act like a tutor that’s always available. In software engineering, this matters because students are often dealing with code that breaks in small, confusing ways. AI can...

Engineering Reflection

Building Software the Right Way

07 May 2026

More Than Just Code Before this class, I thought software engineering was mostly about writing code and getting an app to work. Since the class used tools for making web applications, it would be easy to think the whole class...

Engineering Reflection

How Long Could It Possibly Take?

04 May 2026

Effort Estimation in Software Engineering Estimating Started as an Educated Guess At the beginning of the project, effort estimation felt more like an educated guess than an exact calculation. I based my estimates on task complexity, my previous experience, and...

Engineering Instrospection

Comfort in Constraints

26 Feb 2026

HTML and CSS are incredibly barebones. They are powerful but if you try to use these on their own to build something real, but due to this “barebone-ness” they tend to feel indifferent. They don’t care that you’re trying to...

Engineering HTML5 & CSS Bootstrap 5

Coding Standards: Pedantry or Productivity?

13 Feb 2026

When I first heard the phrase “coding standards”, what I initially heard is “more work”. If I’m coding alone, I can usually keep my own style consistent enough, and I don’t need a checklist to tell me how to do...

Engineering Coding Standards

Volume is Not Precision

29 Jan 2026

Something that I’ve learned through life, work, and relationships is that communication isn’t key, good communication is. In my experience, theres one idea that consistently improves communication: conciseness. When you’re concise, you avoid overloading the person you are talking to...

Technical Essay

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