Parker Shamblin
Software engineer. Computer science student at the University of South Florida, graduating December 2026.
I build backend systems in Java and Python, computer vision tools with OpenCV, and VR training software in Unity. Before college I founded and ran an Amazon e-commerce business to $119k in first-year sales. Based in Tampa, Florida; U.S. citizen.
Experience
- University of South FloridaMay – Dec 2022Undergraduate Research Assistant
Built a VR construction-safety training platform in Unity and C# for USF's Rehabilitation, Robotics and Prosthetics Lab, and presented the prototype to Florida Department of Transportation stakeholders. Case study →
- Booz Allen HamiltonMay – Aug 2019Summer Games Intern
Ingested and standardized sensor and transactional datasets in Python for a federal-client prototype; helped design PostgreSQL-backed data workflows and a Spring Boot API concept. Case study →
- Everyman's Products LLC2017 – 2019Founder
Ran an Amazon e-commerce business: $119,000 in first-year sales, three products designed and launched, and a web crawler that scraped Amazon sales data to pick which markets to enter. Case study →
Projects
- RuneScape computer vision botPython · OpenCV
Trained a custom OpenCV cascade classifier (200+ positive, 1,000+ negative samples) and ran it in a multi-threaded capture → detect → act loop against a live game window. Source
- Retail banking & brokerage platformJava · Oracle
Java web app modeling public, customer, teller, and manager workflows with a normalized Oracle schema, stored procedures, and explicit approval-state transitions. Source
- VR construction-safety trainingUnity · C#
Unity VR platform simulating roadside job-site hazards and safety-response workflows, deployed to Quest 2 and demoed to FDOT stakeholders.
- This siteNext.js · Cloudflare
Next.js static export served by a Cloudflare Worker with CI deploys on every push to main. Source
Writing
Education
- University of South FloridaExpected Dec 2026
B.S. in Computer Science. GPA 3.6/4.0. Recipient of the $10,000 annual NSF S-STEM FLIT-GAP scholarship.