bryan nakasone

software
developer

I build ML pipelines, full-stack web apps, and tools that make complex data actually useful. Based in Honolulu, HI — currently at UH Manoa working on GIS data visualization and interactive 3D environments with Unity.

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// about

I'm Bryan — a developer exploring where machine learning meets the web. Built everything from sentiment analysis NLP pipelines to interactive web UIs. Currently diving deep into GIS data and Unity development at UH.

Currently at University of Hawaii at Manoa's LAVA research lab, building web applications for geospatial data visualization, working with Unity for interactive 3D environments, and developing GIS data processing tools. One of my key projects was a sentiment analysis NLP system for social media data.

When I'm not writing software I'm tweaking dotfiles, playing video games, or hiking and going to the beach. Daily driver is a Corne 36-key running ZMK with KLP Lame switches — tactile, no click, ~45g actuation. Also have a Geist Totem in rotation.

I'm also into split ergonomic keyboards, minimalist desktop setups, and finding the perfect terminal color scheme — the usual rabbit holes.

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langPython

langTypeScript

langJavaScript

langJava

langSQL

langMATLAB

frontReact

frontNext.js

frontReact Bootstrap

frontVercel

ml/dataHuggingFace

ml/dataXGBoost

ml/dataRoBERTa

ml/dataGIS / GeoJSON

ml/dataPostgreSQL

ml/dataOptuna

toolsGit

toolsDocker

toolsJupyter

toolsLinux

toolsCLI

languages

frontend

ml & data

tools & infra

// projects

~/projects/sentiment-nlp 2026

Social Sentiment NLP Pipeline

End-to-end pipeline extracting Bluesky social data, filtering bot activity with TF-IDF + XGBoost (96.25% recall), and fine-tuning RoBERTa for sentiment classification with rolling-average time-series visualizations.

PythonRoBERTaXGBoostHuggingFaceOptuna

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~/projects/geohaven 2025

GeoHaven

Full-stack web app for the Hawaii State Energy Office converting GeoJSON and shapefiles into projection-optimized PNG layers for 3D-printed island terrain models. Built at UH LAVA Lab.

PythonGISGeoJSONNext.jsLAVA Lab

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~/projects/uh-marketplace 2025

UH Marketplace

Full-stack peer-to-peer e-commerce platform for the UH Manoa community. Secure user auth, PostgreSQL schema design, deployed on Vercel. Built collaboratively with Agile sprints and code reviews.

Next.jsReact BootstrapPostgreSQLVercelTypeScript

live ↗ code

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