Jason Catalan D'Souza

Graduated with a 1.79 GWA (90%) from a curriculum bridging low-level hardware and high-level software: embedded systems, IoT, edge computing, operating systems, databases and web architectures.

• Led R&D of an AIoT visual sensory substitution prototype for the visually impaired and first-authored the peer-reviewed IEEE paper.

• Directed engineering and event logistics for the chapter: architectural lead of its official website, local game jams and technology exhibition booths.

• Contracted hardware-software projects: a vision-based traffic telemetry edge node, a full-stack quarry management system, parking trackers and AIoT air monitoring.

• Edge-fog-cloud AIoT smart hat for the visually impaired: stereo-vision depth maps become spatial audio pings (Edge), gestures replace visual controls (AI) and a phone bridges GPS telemetry to caregivers (Cloud).
• Runs on a Raspberry Pi 4 across Python, Kotlin and Node.js; I led the thesis and wrote the code.
• Source code is confidential.

• Self-contained Raspberry Pi and CCTV unit powered from a municipal traffic pole.
• YOLOv11 tracks vehicles, OpenCV projects them onto a 2D map and daily trajectory datasets are logged for SUMO simulations, all reachable off-grid through a Flask hotspot interface.
• Source code is confidential (thesis).

• Led a 5-person team to 1st place (50,000 PHP) at the inaugural Western Visayas AI Hackathon against 7 teams.
• A locally hosted Llama 3 on Ollama, tuned with document-to-markdown parsing, chunking and few-shot prompts, answers DOST program questions on Facebook Messenger through headless Puppeteer in an Electron app.

• Built the GDSC USA chapter website with Nuxt, Vue and TypeScript.
• Developed CMS-style views for student projects, event schedules and membership registries, using TailwindCSS and Vuetify for styling and Vuefire to connect the interface to Firebase.

• POS and billing web app modernizing a decade-old quarry operation.
• Custom JavaScript parsers cleaned and migrated 7,700+ entries (158 clients, 575 statements) from 20 Excel workbooks into a normalized MySQL database behind a PHP/Apache REST API, with an admin audit trail and print-optimized statements for the paper workflow.