# Kalani Murakami

> Senior Software Engineer leveraging AWS and LLM expertise.

Location: Cupertino, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kalani

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Toyota Research Institute
Jan 2025 – Present

### Software Engineer 4 @ Toyota Research Institute
Jan 2023 – Present | Los Altos, California, United States

### Research Software Engineer (Via HireArt) @ Toyota Research Institute
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Los Altos, California, United States

### Founder @ Insightflo
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Sunnyvale California

### Data Collections Engineer @ Magic Leap
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

### Autonomous Car R&D Intern @ Xmotors.ai
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View

### Pilot Engineer Intern: Data Engineer/Analytics @ MathWorks
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Sunnyvale, California
•	Implemented a scalable serverless architecture on a distributed computing system for simultaneous IOT devices.
•	Used the MATLAB Parallel Processing Toolbox and Simulink to build and scale car models to simulate real time car data for testing data pipeline.
•	Used AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Swagger, and Apache Kafka to build API’s and partition the data for processing the data with POSTMAN for testing.
•	Used MATLAB, MATLAB Production Server, Apache AVRO and AWS S3 to convert incoming results to AVRO files and storing the results in S3. 
•	Used Amazon Athena, Amazon Glue for ETL and MATLAB Production Server to query Apache AVRO and Apache Parquet from S3 for the query layer.
•	Created machine learning models to put onto MATLAB Production Server for real time machine learning to display queried data using Tableau or PowerBI which runs on MATLAB Distributed Computing Services run processes in parallel for faster training and predictions. 
• Project to be used for MATLAB Expo, Strata Data Conference, and Big Data Spain Conference.

### Modlab Deep Learning Undergraduate Research Assistant @ UC Davis
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Davis
• Creating SQL database using NLP to get hashtags for sentiment analysis for twitter tweets.
• Using LSTM’s to find clusters in tweets to find what makes topics viral and the relation with hashtags.

### NLP - Undergraduate Student Researcher @ UC Davis
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Participating in CoNLL 2017 shared task for constructing Multilingual parsing from raw text to Universal
Dependencies

### Organizer @ Davis Artificial Intelligence Meet up
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
I am just created this group and want to promote this meet up group to encourage Artificial Intelligence talk in the area of Davis and Sacramento. Please join if you are interested! 

https://www.meetup.com/Davis-Artificial-Intelligence-Meetup/

### Software Engineer Internship @ PowerSchool Group LLC
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Created a real time data pipeline using Apache Spark Streaming and Apache Kafka on Amazon AWS VM’s to stream company data into a SQL database to do further queries and updates.

### IT Consultant @ UC Davis Extension
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016

### Volunteer Internship Position Web Designer @ Cross Cultrual Center UC Davis
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | California Ave, Davis, CA 95616


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering
University of California, Davis


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/khmurakami
- Website: https://khmurakami.github.io/
- Website: https://contextfolio.space/

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Source: https://flows.cv/kalani
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kalani/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-01