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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.

Oak, in side profile

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

The Lookout logo — a single watchful eye.

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's alert list with the MESH ACTIVE badge lit and severity chips down the feed.

Echo

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

  • Flutter
  • Dart
  • Kotlin
  • Swift
  • SQLite
  • Python 3

Hack for Humanity 2026 (V3) — SCU

Team: aadityad12 · shahxsheel · Mr-Shine09

GitHubDevpost

Personal

Reader in progress.

Reading List

2 volumes · 0 finished

Currently reading

  • Cover of Dune

    Dune

    Frank Herbert

    Started Aug 2026

    73%
  • Cover of The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence

    The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence

    Sebastian Mallaby

    Started Aug 2026

    30%

Fiction

0 volumes

Nothing finished yet. Dune is at 73%.

Non-Fiction

0 volumes

Nothing finished yet. Dune is at 73%.

Contact

OAK SOE KHANT

Computer Engineering @ De Anza