Joel Akiyoshi
Space Software Intern at iMETALX Inc.
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolJoel Akiyoshi is a space-focused software engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience building embedded and computer vision systems, now interning on space software at iMETALX in Irvine. He developed the communications subsystem for UCI’s first nanosatellite, wrote firmware integrating RFM98PW transceivers with Arduino/STM32, and automated real-time satellite tracking via the Celestrak API. Joel has strong ML and CV chops from academic research—fine-tuning VGG16 to classify diseased crops with ~90% accuracy—and practical GIS and Python experience measuring coastal erosion from aerial imagery. He also teaches and mentors, having guided dozens of students through Python and AI topics, which sharpens his ability to explain complex systems. Notably, his background blends low-level embedded firmware, cloud-accessible tracking tools, and applied deep learning—making him comfortable across the stack from sensor hardware to deployed vision models.
16 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
CourseraArnold O. Beckman High SchoolUniversity of California, IrvineGithub contributions (1)
Mondego/Sourcerer
Jul 2009 - Nov 2012
Contributions:239 commits in 3 years 4 months
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