I'm Mike Veson, a Greek-American Computer Science major at Rice University 🦉 who loves building things that make life easier. I grew up around shipping software 🚢 and learned early how tech can transform industries and power products that people rely on.
I'm a fast learner, I break down big problems into clear steps, and always put users first. I've worked in supporting startups, shipping software, and defense, mainly in software engineering, product, and client-facing roles. My primary technical skillset spans Mobile, Web, Backend, and Data Engineering, but I'm always learning new skills and pushing myself to take on new challenges.
Outside of CS, I love soccer ⚽ (or football, wherever you're from). It's been a life goal of mine to understand players and teams better through data. I've built analytics tools, highlight generators, and reached the top 3% in Euro 2024 predictions. I'm also studying abroad in Barcelona this year, exploring new cultures while improving my Greek and Spanish.
Long-term, I want to build products that meaningfully help people at scale. If you're working on challenges in big tech 🖥️, finance 💰, shipping 🚢, or any space where fast learners who connect customer needs to fast output are valuable, let's connect.
Experience
Software Engineer Intern
Built automated .NET/C# data-integration services feeding Power BI for Air Force infrastructure management; learned C# and .NET on the job and delivered production features within weeks.
Software Engineer in Residence
Conducted extensive user research and product strategy for Rice's entrepreneurship platform, combining UX design with technical prototyping to inform curriculum improvements and founder support programs.
Software Engineer Intern
Built automated .NET/C# data-integration services feeding Power BI for Air Force infrastructure management; learned C# and .NET on the job and delivered production features within weeks.
Software Engineer in Residence
Conducted extensive user research and product strategy for Rice's entrepreneurship platform, combining UX design with technical prototyping to inform curriculum improvements and founder support programs.
Software Engineering Intern (IMOS – Laytime Automation)
Built production-ready laytime calculation PoC in 1-week sprint under critical client deadline, reducing client's manual 3-day workflows to 8 minutes and directly enabling major strategic partnership.
Data Science Intern
Shipped NLP clustering and entity-matching pipelines (Sentence Transformers + FAISS) achieving ~97% title-category accuracy; improved company merge precision >20%.
Software Development Intern (Mobile)
One of three frontend iOS devs on Veson’s first mobile app; enabled on-the-go access to voyage/cargo data and drove broad client adoption.
