About

Hello World!

I'm an Industrial Engineering student at the University of Toronto. During my time in university I strive to gain technical knowledge in my discipline, collaborate with others on unique projects, become more independent, and engage with opportunities on campus. When outside of school, I work on building my professional experience and real world problem solving skills by pursuing new opportunities in the ever growing technology industry.

Featured Projects

Badge - UofTHacks 13
- January 2026
  
  Badge helps you build a unique professional identity for meaningful connections and effective networking at hackathons, conferences, and career fairs!
  
  This project was built during UofTHacks 13 with my wonderful team Faris Abuain, Harsh Shukla, and Rajan Chavada. Not only did we manage to win "Best Use of Snowflake API" prize but this hackathon was also filled with many fun memories!
  
  We were inspired by a problem many of us encountered this very weekend, as well as at past hackathons: networking. We noticed that many of us struggled to find sponsors; went into discussions blind; and that many students asked the same, generic questions at every booth. I’m sure many of our sponsors noticed the same issue – so how do we fix it? We realized that professional identity – our special interests, past experiences, and unique perspectives – is often poorly understood by us, as students, and weakly conveyed when talking to potential connections. To address this, we wanted to build a tool that could:
  
  • Facilitate connections and make it easier to build relationships on the basis of shared career interests and goals
  
  • Make it easier to have genuine conversations with sponsors by connecting students with sponsors that relate to their interest, and highlighting aspects of each company that best relate to that students' professional identity
  
  • Make networking at Hackathons, academic/industry conferences, and career fairs simpler and more efficient for not only students, but working professionals, academics, and the sponsors themselves!
  
  So we set out to build our users a tool to do just that. Their own personal Badge.
  
  LinkedIn Post: Post
  Devpost: Badge
  GitHub: repository
  ClerkConvexElevenlabsGeminiHTMLGitHubJavascriptTypescriptReactSnowflake
Custom Minecraft Player Controller
- January 2023
  
  Introducing a new way to play games. Use the custom device to play games such as Minecraft with more interactivity.
  
  The software and hardware was created during computer engineering class with one of my friends and has many features including,
  
  • Physical controller device that allows a user to move joysticks, push buttons and even jump, to control the character within the game.
  
  • Software that comes with instruction such as controls and how to connect the device to the application.
  
  Physical device uses an Arduino Uno and various hardware components such as joysticks, pushbuttons, ultrasonic sensor, etc.
  
  Software uses Cool Term which is a third party software, a python application to read output from Cool Term and a c++ application to convert the instructions into actions.
  
  GitHub: repository
  ArduinoC++PythonCool TermHardwareGitHubTeamworkPresentation Skills
Home Gymnastic Apparatus Project
- April 2024
  
  During the second semester course APS112, my team was assigned a design project where our goal was to create a set of custom gymnastic rings which will be deployed at our clients home.
  
  I worked closely with my team by taking on many responsibilities which included!
  
  • Helping prepare informational documents to help describe the project in more detail!
  
  • Researched on how to create a working physical prototype as well as the timely logistics!
  
  • Planned how to measure the effectiveness of our design which included custom metrics and testing procedures!
  
  • Creating renders and diagrams that help convey different design decisions and persuade our client into seeing our vision!
  
  • Preparing parts of our teams final presentation and presenting with my team to the client and teaching team!
  To test the effectiveness of our design I looked for ways that we could feasibly assemble a prototype within the course budget and time. I later assisted in defining the Measures of Success and gathered experimental data by testing our prototype! This included a Tensile Test and a Friction Test which gave us a lot of real life data to back up our design with.
  
  We presented our top design, the LassoR to the teaching team and to the client to convince them into accepting the design! In the end, our client liked our design and enjoyed working with us! Overall, I learned about the engineering design process, further improved a lot of my communication and teamwork skills, and how to persuasively present your ideas!
  
  The process of coming up with an equation to model the lifetime of the design required lots of brainstorming and rough calculations! I usually do not derive these types of equations in my classes or for my own personal projects, so this was fun to work on! My Rough Calculations! Used Onlympics gymnastic footage
  (Arthur Zanetti [BRA] - Men's Rings | Champions of London 2012)
  
  ClientEngineeringDesign ProcessDocumentationTeamworkPresentation Skills

Featured Experience

TELUS | Co-op Student
May 2025 - August 2025

25 York St, Toronto, Ontario

• Member of the Number Planning Team; helping with data migration, automations and objectives
• Supporting the analysis and management of countless phone numbers across Canada
• Migrated reports and dashboards from DOMO into Google Cloud Platform using Pulumi and GitHub
• Created Looker Studio dashboards and tested Vertex AI classification and regression models
• Collaborated and supported my team through ideas, frequent communication and initiative
• Gained insights from the TELUS community through connecting with supervisors, GTLP and co-ops

Google Cloud PlatformBig QueryLooker StudioVertex AIGitHubPulumiPythonTeamworkNetworking & CommunicationPresentation SkillsTechnical Documentation

Acentury Inc | Software Developer
June 2024 - August 2024

Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada

• Collaborated with the development team to automate Baw and Saw (RF semiconductor resonators) simulations using Ansys technology
• Surpassed expectations in the fast pace and busy working environment
• Created API endpoint documentation in Azure for use in front end development and testing
• Updated automated test cases for SynMatrix application TL calculations with JS and Jest
• Gained valuable working experience, which I will apply towards my future career

Azure DevOps ServicesAnsysWorkbenchSpaceClaimMechanicalPythonJavaScriptSketch App

UofTHacks | API Prize Winner
January 2026

University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Participated in UofTHacks 13 and won "Best Use of Snowflake API"
• Selected to the University of Toronto's largest hackathon, where over 500 students of different skill levels come together to experiment and create unique software/hardware projects from scratch
• Teamed up with like minded indivisuals and engaged the team to brainstorm, collaborate and produce a one-of-a-kind project within 36 hours
• Connected with industry leaders, sponsors, mentors, and volunteers to gain valuable insights about new technologies and emerging trends

ClerkConvexElevenlabsGeminiHTMLGitHubJavascriptTypescriptReactSnowflake

University of Toronto Machine Intelligence Student Team
October 2024 - Present

Machine Learning Researcher

• Accepted to be ML Software Researcher among a highly competitive pool of candidates
• Aiming to produce a student research paper under UTMIST through organized team collaboration
• Working towards applying Machine learning to Computer vision using OpenCV and other tools

AI & Machine LearningOpenCVPythonResearch

AI Open Source Developer

• Selected to be a member of the AI Open Source team among highly competitive candidates
• Implementing Keras and Nvidia technologies for accurate and user friendly image labeling
• Planning on preparing a team repository and contributing new features and fixes to open source

AI & Machine LearningNvidiaKerasGitHubOpen Source

Hack the North | Hacker Participant
September 2022, 2023, 2024

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Selected to the Canada's biggest hackathon, where 1,000+ students of different skill levels come from around the world to experiment and create unique software/hardware projects from scratch
• Teamed up with ambitious and technical strong teams over the events; Engaged the team to brainstorm, collaborate and produce a one-of-a-kind project within 36 hours
• Connected with industry leaders, sponsors, mentors, and volunteers to gain valuable insights about new technologies and emerging trends
• Participated in the 2022, 2023 and 2024 hackathon

React.jsPythonFlaskFirebaseConvexVoiceFlowDevpostTeamworkPresentation SkillsTechnical DocumentationTime Management

Projects

Badge - UofTHacks 13
- January 2026
  
  Badge helps you build a unique professional identity for meaningful connections and effective networking at hackathons, conferences, and career fairs!
  
  This project was built during UofTHacks 13 with my wonderful team Faris Abuain, Harsh Shukla, and Rajan Chavada. Not only did we manage to win "Best Use of Snowflake API" prize but this hackathon was also filled with many fun memories!
  
  We were inspired by a problem many of us encountered this very weekend, as well as at past hackathons: networking. We noticed that many of us struggled to find sponsors; went into discussions blind; and that many students asked the same, generic questions at every booth. I’m sure many of our sponsors noticed the same issue – so how do we fix it? We realized that professional identity – our special interests, past experiences, and unique perspectives – is often poorly understood by us, as students, and weakly conveyed when talking to potential connections. To address this, we wanted to build a tool that could:
  
  • Facilitate connections and make it easier to build relationships on the basis of shared career interests and goals
  
  • Make it easier to have genuine conversations with sponsors by connecting students with sponsors that relate to their interest, and highlighting aspects of each company that best relate to that students' professional identity
  
  • Make networking at Hackathons, academic/industry conferences, and career fairs simpler and more efficient for not only students, but working professionals, academics, and the sponsors themselves!
  
  So we set out to build our users a tool to do just that. Their own personal Badge.
  
  LinkedIn Post: Post
  Devpost: Badge
  GitHub: repository
  ClerkConvexElevenlabsGeminiHTMLGitHubJavascriptTypescriptReactSnowflake
Custom Minecraft Player Controller
- January 2023
  
  Introducing a new way to play games. Use the custom device to play games such as Minecraft with more interactivity.
  
  The software and hardware was created during computer engineering class with one of my friends and has many features including,
  
  • Physical controller device that allows a user to move joysticks, push buttons and even jump, to control the character within the game.
  
  • Software that comes with instruction such as controls and how to connect the device to the application.
  
  Physical device uses an Arduino Uno and various hardware components such as joysticks, pushbuttons, ultrasonic sensor, etc.
  
  Software uses Cool Term which is a third party software, a python application to read output from Cool Term and a c++ application to convert the instructions into actions.
  
  GitHub: repository
  ArduinoC++PythonCool TermHardwareGitHubTeamworkPresentation Skills
Plants Vs Zombies
- June 2022
  
  I wanted to create something big for my grade 11 Compsci class. This led to me and my partner agreeing on Plants Vs Zombies as our project's goal. We worked together well as I primarily did the coding and development while Christian did the presentation and planning. We both helped each other along the way!
  
  Download: itch.io. GitHub: repository
  
  ProcessingPythonGitHubInkscapeItch.ioShotCutTeamworkPresentation Skills
Tile Wars
- April 2022
  
  My best friend and I thought that making a simple game on Roblox would be easy. Turns out that creating multiplayer games is not only challenging but also requires extensive play testing and a multiplayer user perspective. I mainly worked on the code while my friend created the graphics! You can visit the place here.
  
  Roblox StudioInkscapeTeamwork
Uno Project
- January 2022
  
  My first large scale arduino project had myself and my partner from my class, recreate the game Uno. The project required extensive electrical work, trouble shooting, and research. Everything that could go wrong, went wrong, including wireing issues, memory exhaustion and more! In the end, we learned a lot about hardware and created a physical and digital prototype.
  
  ArduinoC++TinkerCADHardwareTeamworkPresentation Skills
Assorted Unity Projects
- Unity Games that I have worked on over the years while learning how to use the game engine and other softwares!
  
  Split - June 2021
  This game can stick your attention
  A platformer game myself and my best friend made for a game jam at our school. The game jam was 2 weeks long and was fun while being super stressful. You can play the game in your browser here.
  
  Find To Fix - January 2020
  I took the limitation "Pocket Sized" very seriously!
  Find To Fix is a game made for the Mini Jam 45: Dungeons game jam. The game jam was 3 days and was one of the most time-reduced ones so far.
  
  MindfulnessMayhem - June 2019
  
  The development was mostly Mayhem ironically
  MindfulnessMayhem is a game about mindfulness that I and a friend made for our school's health class. As the name suggests that game is about mindfulness and it can be played here.
  
  AvoidAsteroid - February 2019
  
  Trying new things can feel like freezing on the moon
  AvoidAsteroid is my first ever published game. It was created for the second BTP game jam. The game can be played here.
  
  UnityC#BlenderInkscapeAudacity
Home Gymnastic Apparatus Project
- April 2024
  
  During the second semester course APS112, my team was assigned a design project where our goal was to create a set of custom gymnastic rings which will be deployed at our clients home.
  
  I worked closely with my team by taking on many responsibilities which included!
  
  • Helping prepare informational documents to help describe the project in more detail!
  
  • Researched on how to create a working physical prototype as well as the timely logistics!
  
  • Planned how to measure the effectiveness of our design which included custom metrics and testing procedures!
  
  • Creating renders and diagrams that help convey different design decisions and persuade our client into seeing our vision!
  
  • Preparing parts of our teams final presentation and presenting with my team to the client and teaching team!
  To test the effectiveness of our design I looked for ways that we could feasibly assemble a prototype within the course budget and time. I later assisted in defining the Measures of Success and gathered experimental data by testing our prototype! This included a Tensile Test and a Friction Test which gave us a lot of real life data to back up our design with.
  
  We presented our top design, the LassoR to the teaching team and to the client to convince them into accepting the design! In the end, our client liked our design and enjoyed working with us! Overall, I learned about the engineering design process, further improved a lot of my communication and teamwork skills, and how to persuasively present your ideas!
  
  The process of coming up with an equation to model the lifetime of the design required lots of brainstorming and rough calculations! I usually do not derive these types of equations in my classes or for my own personal projects, so this was fun to work on! My Rough Calculations! Used Onlympics gymnastic footage
  (Arthur Zanetti [BRA] - Men's Rings | Champions of London 2012)
  
  ClientEngineeringDesign ProcessDocumentationTeamworkPresentation Skills
NutriCulture Hydroponics Prototype
- July, 2022
  
  The prototype showcases the vision of a hydroponic system that can be utilized in northern areas of Canada, to improve food sovereignty. Worked closely with the members of my Design Entrepreneurship project group, to make the prototype accurate, including the view of the cargo crate exterior to protect against the elements, The insulation layer which helps maintain growing temperatures, and the hydroponic system which produces plants and filters water.
  
  Asset Sources
  Cargo Crate: link
  Lettuce Model: link
  
  BlenderResearchProblem SolvingDocumentationTeamworkPresentation Skills
YM Design Club
- September 2022 - June 2023
  
  The club focuses on digital design such as game dev, modelling, digital art and even music, which is represented by this logo. I was the co-president while I was at York Mills and if you would like to learn more about the club, visit the club's Instagram.
  
  UnityProcessingKritaInkscapeBlenderShotcutC#PythonPresentation SkillsOrganizational Skills
SynMatrix 3D Product Graphic Design
- June - August 2020
  
  Completed 6 commissioned renders of various products for the company SynMatrix. I worked for around a month and helped create better visuals for their products. This helped communicate the general specifications of the products as well as make the website appear more sophisticated.
  
  BlenderInkscapeEmail Etiquette
Assorted Render Projects
- Renders that I have worked on over the years while learning how to use Blender and other softwares!
  
  Cybertruck - May 2021
  The coolest truck
  The model was originally created for a Unity driving simulation project for the YM Design Club. I later repurposed my model to render the car in an urban setting!
  
  Minecraft Coffin Dance - March 2020
  
  Parody version of the Dancing Pallbearers or otherwise known as Coffin Dance Meme!
  What happens when you want to try animating and you find an interesting online sensation. Well, you get an animated video which you can watch here.
  
  Minecraft Forest - July 2019
  
  My favourite Sandbox game
  Discovered ways of making textures transparent.
  
  Truck - July 2019
  
  This is safe
  Applied a background to have beautiful clouds.
  
  Airplane - June 2019
  
  Not sculpted by hand
  Wanted to explore how to create curves. I realized that sculpting created many vertices which made it hard to edit later on.
  
  Fish - June 2019
  
  Getting my feet wet
  First time I explored the sculpting tool. It helped create an organic-looking object. I also explored the Ocean modifier which generated the water.
  
  Rubik's cube - August 2018
  
  A household puzzle
  One of the first times I tried texture mapping.
  
  Mountains - July 2018
  
  Rocky start
  Learned about area grab effects, which allowed me to apply the random area grabber option to the vertices for natural mountains.
  
  BlenderInkscapeShotcut

Experience

UofTHacks | API Prize Winner
January 2026

University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

ClerkConvexElevenlabsGeminiHTMLGitHubJavascriptTypescriptReactSnowflake

TELUS | Co-op Student
May 2025 - August 2025

25 York St, Toronto, Ontario

Google Cloud PlatformBig QueryLooker StudioVertex AIGitHubPulumiPythonTeamworkNetworking & CommunicationPresentation SkillsTechnical Documentation

University of Toronto Machine Intelligence Student Team
October 2024 - Present

Machine Learning Researcher

AI & Machine LearningOpenCVPythonResearch

AI Open Source Developer

• Selected to be a member of the AI Open Source team among highly competitive candidates
• Implementing Keras and NVDA technologies for accurate and user friendly image labeling
• Planning on preparing a team repository and contributing new features and fixes to open source

AI & Machine LearningNVDAKerasGitHubOpen Source

AWS Hack the Student Life | Hacker Participant
November 2024

AWS Office, 18 York St. 7th floor

• Created a prototype to solve issues faced by fellow students and professors at the University of Toronto
• Applied Amazon's customer centric "working backwards" strategy
• Gained valuable insights about new technologies and emerging trends
• Participated in the 2024 hackathon

Amazon BedrockAWSAmplifyReact.jsinkscape

Acentury Inc | Software Developer
June 2024 - August 2024

Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada

Azure DevOps ServicesAnsysWorkbenchSpaceClaimMechanicalPythonJavaScriptSketch App

Hack the North | Hacker Participant
September 2022, 2023, 2024

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

React.jsPythonFlaskFirebaseConvexVoiceFlowDevpostTeamworkPresentation SkillsTechnical DocumentationTime Management

Shad Canada Alumni
July 2022

York University, North York, Ontario, Canada

• Successfully completed the highly competitive, month-long program that builds on university level STEM and entrepreneurship content
• Gained valuable experience by living with a group of talented peers, and working on a number of group activities and projects that are intellectually and socially challenging
• Demonstrated strong commitment to the Shad values of creativity, excellence, community, diversity, and responsibility

LeadershipTeamworkCreativityProblem SolvingPresentation SkillsOnline Research

Education

BASc, Industrial Engineering + PEY Co-op
2023 - Present

University of Toronto

AI & Machine Learning Data Structures & Algorithms Data Science Design Projects Operations Research Human Factors Engineering Strategies & Practice

York Mills Collegiate Institute
2019 - 2023

Highschool

• Head of Programming Club, September 2022 - June 2023
• Head of YM Game Design Club, September 2021 - June 2023
• Member of YM Game Design Club, September 2020 - June 2021

Programming Game Design Mathematics Sciences English Fashion

Contact

Feel free to email me at sean.ye@mail.utoronto.ca
I can't wait to hear from you! 👋

About

Featured Projects

Featured Experience

TELUS | Co-op Student May 2025 - August 2025

Acentury Inc | Software DeveloperJune 2024 - August 2024

UofTHacks | API Prize Winner January 2026

University of Toronto Machine Intelligence Student TeamOctober 2024 - Present

Hack the North | Hacker ParticipantSeptember 2022, 2023, 2024

Projects

Experience

UofTHacks | API Prize Winner January 2026

TELUS | Co-op Student May 2025 - August 2025

University of Toronto Machine Intelligence Student TeamOctober 2024 - Present

AWS Hack the Student Life | Hacker ParticipantNovember 2024

Acentury Inc | Software DeveloperJune 2024 - August 2024

Hack the North | Hacker ParticipantSeptember 2022, 2023, 2024

Shad Canada AlumniJuly 2022

Education

BASc, Industrial Engineering + PEY Co-op2023 - Present

York Mills Collegiate Institute2019 - 2023

Contact

TELUS | Co-op Student
May 2025 - August 2025

Acentury Inc | Software Developer
June 2024 - August 2024

UofTHacks | API Prize Winner
January 2026

University of Toronto Machine Intelligence Student Team
October 2024 - Present

Hack the North | Hacker Participant
September 2022, 2023, 2024

UofTHacks | API Prize Winner
January 2026

TELUS | Co-op Student
May 2025 - August 2025

University of Toronto Machine Intelligence Student Team
October 2024 - Present

AWS Hack the Student Life | Hacker Participant
November 2024

Acentury Inc | Software Developer
June 2024 - August 2024

Hack the North | Hacker Participant
September 2022, 2023, 2024

Shad Canada Alumni
July 2022

BASc, Industrial Engineering + PEY Co-op
2023 - Present

York Mills Collegiate Institute
2019 - 2023