Emmanuel Hernandez
A first-generation college student studying Computer Science & Linguistics @ UCLA.
01 Oct 2026 → Present
Music, calendar, to-dos, notes, weather, a timer, a mirror, a screen recorder, a design kit and a file tray, all in the island at the top of the screen. It is built on Open Island, an open-source app by Octane0411, and I added the widgets page and most of what you see here.
02 Dec 2025 → June 2026
A real-time event platform for RSVPs and volunteer coordination. I worked on the React Native app, mostly the events page and RSVP flow.
03 Feb 2026 → now
Every swipe nudges a taste profile, so the next stack of places is a little closer to what you'd actually eat.
04 Jan → May 2026
Make an event, share a code, and everybody's photos land in the same feed. I wrote the largest share of the backend.
05 Aug 2026
Databases promise that once a write comes back, your data survives a crash. This traces every write one makes, works out which on-disk states a crash could legally leave behind, and replays each one to see whether the promise holds.
06 Aug 2026 → now
Bilingual speakers switch languages mid-sentence using rules they never consciously learned. This measures whether a language model follows those rules or just produces something that sounds close.
07 Aug 2026
Write a number or a letter in the air and a laptop webcam reads it live. It's built from two published papers, and when I measured their claims, four didn't hold up.
08 2026
An admin for a Tahiti school-supply nonprofit's merchandise. It tracks stock for each collab, takes in Google Form orders, and shows what's ready to print.
09 Oct 2026 → now
My friend and I make music, and finding a beat we both liked took forever. Now one beat plays at a time. Swipe right and it lands in my Google Drive as a tagged mp3. Swipe left and it's gone for good.
In progress Oct 2026 → now
Take a photo of an English letter, like a school notice, a medical bill, a lease or a benefits or immigration letter. papeles reads it on the phone, pulls out the deadlines, amounts and next steps, and explains it in plain Spanish. Nothing leaves the phone: no network calls, no backend, no analytics. The screens are designed and the app is being built now.
Up next Summer 2027
I'm looking for a summer 2027 internship or co-op. If your team has a feature that needs building, I'd love to hear about it.
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