Ciara Cade

Computer Science Senior at @ University of Michigan.

Content Creator with 31k+ total following.

Currently building Sourceship.dev , the open-source internship alternative inspired by my prev project building community of 3,100+ users.

Interests: open source contributing, backend systems, databases, AI infra/tools, context engineering, MCPs etc.

Experience

Founder

SourceShip.dev

August 2025 – Present

Remote

Software Development Engineer Intern

Amazon

May 2025 - August 2025

Seattle, WA

Computer Information Technology Consultant

University of Michigan Biomedical Engineering Department

Nov 2023 – May 2025

Ann Arbor, MI

Software Engineer Intern

Uber Technologies Inc.

May 2024 – Aug 2024

San Francisco, CA

Software Engineer Intern

Capital One

June 2023 – August 2023

McLean, VA

Awards

1stPlace Team- JP Morgan Chase Code for Good Hackathon
1stPlace Team- Capital One Banking for Good Hackathon
Contributions to Tech Community- OpenAI Scholarship Recipient

Projects

Open-source internship alternative connecting developers with real-world projects

Built with: Next.js, React, TypeScript, Supabase, Tailwind CSS

MorphosisAI

Building

AI-powered stream aggregation UI for Apache Kafka pipelines

Built with: TypeScript, React

Model Context Protocol server using University of Michigan public APIs

Built with: TypeScript, Turborepo

API that grades AWS VPC subnet utilization and provides configuration recommendations

Built with: Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Boto3, LocalStack, Docker

Recent Pull Requests

docs: Add detect-gamemode to Available Commands

yuniko-software/minecraft-mcp-server Merged

feat: Add gamemode detection for bot

yuniko-software/minecraft-mcp-server Merged

docs: Add CONTRIBUTING.md

yuniko-software/minecraft-mcp-server Merged

ref: Improve Ask-AI Scrollbar UI

colorstackorg/oyster Closed

Blog

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