YangonBay Area, CA

OAK SOE KHANT

Computer Engineering @ De Anza

What's up everyone!!! My name is Oak, a Second-year Computer Engineering student at DeAnza Community College, transferring in 2027.

Building cool products to boost productivity. Hackathon fanatic. Mindful AI user. Reader in progress.

Leveraging artificial intelligence to sharpen actual intelligence.

Highlights

Awards & contests

ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional, Division I — ParticipantICPC · 2025

More achievements coming soon.

Hackathons

DA Hacks 3.5De Anza College · 2025
DA Hacks 4.0De Anza College · 2025
Hack for Humanity 2026 — built EchoSanta Clara University · 2026
UC Berkeley AI Hackathon 2026 — built Look-OutUC Berkeley · 2026

Projects

4 projects

Two pixel mascots on a purple desktop above the macOS dock — one working at a desk, one walking.

PokeDesk

A tiny pixel-art mascot that lives at the bottom of your Mac's screen and shows, at a glance, what your coding agent is doing.

Swift
SwiftUI
AppKit
Python 3
XcodeGen

2026

GitHub

Look-Out

The first alert tool built to notify you less — semantic dedup in Redis vector search plus an LLM relevance judge, so only genuinely new and relevant items surface.

Python 3.11
FastAPI
Redis Stack
Vite
Ollama / Claude
Browserbase

UC Berkeley AI Hackathon 2026

Team: Oak Soe Khant · BennPhu · brucenh · HarryMan256

GitHub

The 3D-printed head-mounted enclosure holding a Raspberry Pi 5 with an Arducam camera on the lid.

VisionAssist

Wearable obstacle detection and spoken navigation for the visually impaired. Runs fully offline on a Raspberry Pi 5.

Python
YOLOv8n
Raspberry Pi 5
Arducam IMX708
Piper TTS
Flask

2026 · De Anza College, Infineon-sponsored capstone

Team: Oak · Michael · Cara · Aaditya · Ziyi

GitHub

Echo

A Flutter prototype for receiving, storing, and relaying emergency alerts between nearby devices over Bluetooth Low Energy when an internet connection is unavailable.