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I'm currently looking for internships or new grad roles for Summer 2025, feel free to reach out viaemail orlinkedin if you have or know of any opportunities available!


Overview

Hi my name is Evan Nishi and I'm interested in web development, cybersecurity, and hardware. Feel free to look at my github:Github.




Personal Projects

  • Spotify LED Matrix |python, hardware

    • 03/2022-
    Programmed an LED matrix to sync up with my spotify and display the album cover and other information about the currently playing song using a raspi link

  • Birthday Card Generator |typescript, react, vercel serverless, mongodb

    • 11/2020-06/2021
    Created an api that generates and stores birthday cards with custom messages/theming given a post request link

  • Media Bias Visualization | python, web scraping, html/css, vercel serverless

    • 10/2020-12/2020
    Webscraped data and created a visualization of media bias vs viewership link

  • Personal Site V2 |typescript, react, html/css

    • 04/2020-09/2020
    Created a personal website (looking at it right now!)



Class Projects

  • Data Integrated Sparring Helmet (in progress)

    • Currently working on a project advised by Dr. Kaikai Liu that integrates a single board computer into a sparring helmet and sensor suite to collect data and stream it to a dashboard.

  • Fren2meet

    • Wrote a when2meet clone with expanded features such as adding friends, have a personal calendar attatched to user profle, and improved UI link

  • Skive

    • Built a java journaling app with an SQL backend link




Education

  • San Jose State University

    • Student, 2022 - May 2025
    B.S. Software Engineering, cybersecurity certificate

  • Diablo Valley College

    • Student, 2019-2022
    A.S. Computer Science

  • Las Lomas High School

    • Student, 2018-2022
    High School Dilpoma




Work

  • Drem

    • Intern, 06/2022-07/2023
    Was a lead intern for Drem, a fintech startup based in SCU. Worked mainly with code organization and quality, typescript, tailwind, and react.

  • San Jose State Computer Science Club

    • Web Developer, 10/2022-12/2022
    Made wireframes and wrote code for the San Jose State Computer Science Club's website and infrastructure.

  • The Coder School

    • Code coach, 02/2021-09/2021
    Taught and tutored students in basic programming concepts.

  • TrantonLLC

    • Contract backend web developer, 01/2020-02/2020
    Was a paid contract developer for TrantonLLC. Worked mainly with discord.js, AWS EC2, and express.




Tools/Technologies:

I love learning new technologies, along with the following tools. I am also experienced with linux, scrum, git, mongodb administration, and bash scripting.

Javascript/Typescript

I am proficient in writing and deploying web applications and APIs with js/ts as well as best practices, serverless functions, various libraries.

Accompanying tools:

  • Express
  • Mongoose/Mongo
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • React.js
  • Styled-components
  • Tailwind

Python

I am very comfortable working in python to automate tasks, write basic machine learning models, process data, and write web applications in python.Relevant coursework: Intro to Data Science, Machine Learning for Big Data

Accompanying tools:

  • Flask
  • Numpy
  • OpenCV
  • Pandas
  • Poetry
  • Pipenv
  • Sqlite
  • Tensorflow

Java

I am comfortable writing code for java gui applications, and working with build tools for both desktop and andriod.Relevant coursework: Object Oriented Design, Data Structures and Algorithms

Accompanying tools:

  • Gradle
  • Maven
  • Spring Boot

C/C++

I am familiar with C/C++ especially in the context of operating systems. I also used C++ in VEX robotics, mainly working with littlevgl graphics library for the UI of our controller.Relevant coursework: Operating Systems


HTML/CSS

I am proficient in designing, styling, and making responsive static websites with HTML and CSS.


SQL

I am familiar with writing code for, deploying, and maintaining SQLite and Oracle SQL databases.Relevant coursework: Database Management, Enterprise Systems