software engineer · builder

Tona Otoro

I build software to solve my problems and better people's lives.

My ongoing project, Parkeye, is a mobile app for simplifying campus parking at George Mason — a school with more than 30,000 commuter students.

parkeye.app →
currently building Parkeye
Resume
Portrait of Tona Otoro

selected work

Projects

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Parkeye

A parking-availability forecasting model that predicts campus lot occupancy up to 4 hours ahead. Built an ETL pipeline from 5 years of historical data (25,700+ records across 14 George Mason lots), trained an XGBoost quantile regression model, and shipped it as a FastAPI microservice powering a React Native app — piloted with George Mason parking staff after incorporating 400+ student feedback responses.

XGBoostFastAPIPostgreSQLReact Native
Demo →
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Consil AI

🏆 1st Place, PatriotHacks 2025 (AI Track)

A teacher dashboard for managing student profiles, generating personalized improvement plans, and building classroom seating charts from one interface — with an AI planning assistant (an Azure OpenAI Phi agent plus a source-backed web scraper) built in.

Next.jsSupabaseTypeScriptAzure
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where I've worked

Experience

  1. State Farm logo

    Software Engineer Intern @ State Farm

    Jun 2026 — Present

    Built a REST API endpoint with Spring Boot and JUnit to automate issuance timestamps for IBM IMS transactions, cutting manual setup time by ~88%. Deployed and validated changes across QA and dev on AWS ROSA using Bruno for endpoint testing.

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    Founder & Software Engineer @ Parkeye

    Apr 2026 — Present

    Founded a parking-availability forecasting startup: built an XGBoost quantile regression model (21 engineered features) predicting campus lot occupancy up to 4 hours ahead, backed by a PostgreSQL ETL pipeline and a FastAPI microservice serving a React Native app. Piloted with George Mason parking staff after incorporating 400+ student feedback responses.

  3. Transurban logo

    Junior Programmer Intern @ Transurban

    Jan 2026 — May 2026

    Built a Python pipeline processing 4,000+ daily ETC transactions to automate statistical analysis of toll violations, and a Pandas-based alerting script that cut failure-detection latency by ~99% compared to manual health checks.

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    Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ George Mason University

    Jan 2026 — May 2026

    Tutored a class of 40+ students, answered 200+ questions on the course Q&A page, and debugged student Java programs during office hours covering recursion, OOP, and data structures.

school

Education

  1. George Mason University logo

    Bachelor of Science in Computer Science @ George Mason University

    Fairfax, VA · GPA 3.97/4.00

    • Coursework: Object-Oriented Programming (Java), Low Level Programming (C), Data Structures & Algorithms, Discrete Mathematics, Multivariable Calculus
    • Leadership: ColorStack Academic Chair, Google Developer Groups Technical Lead
    • Selective Programs: Pinterest Pin It To Win It, Capital One Tech Summit, Liberty Mutual Spark Summit

what I work with

Skills

Languages

HTML/CSSJavaCPythonTypeScriptJavaScriptSQL

Frameworks

ReactNext.jsFastAPIPytestPandasXGBoostScikit-learnSpring BootJUnitReact Native

Databases

PostgreSQLSQLiteMySQL

Tools & Platforms

GitDockerJupyter NotebookExpoAzureGitHub ActionsJiraAWSBruno

Machine Learning

Feature EngineeringModel Training & DeploymentStatistical AnalysisData Pipelines (ETL)

Concepts

RESTful APIsData Structures & AlgorithmsObject-Oriented ProgrammingClient-Server ArchitectureRelational DatabasesAgile MethodologiesCI/CD

from the build log

Writing

Coming soon — nothing posted yet.