SCDI Santa Clara University

About Parkd

Byproduct of Student Innovation

Parkd began as a simple idea between two students who saw a frustrating reality on their own campus: permit registration was slow, enforcement was inconsistent, and the process felt outdated.

Rather than accept it as "just how things are," we saw an opportunity, both to solve a real problem for students and staff, and to challenge ourselves as engineers.

We combined our backgrounds in software development and product design to create Parkd: a modern, streamlined platform that makes it easy to register permits, manage guests, and enforce parking rules, all from one dashboard.

What started as a campus side project quickly grew into a mission to help schools everywhere save time, reduce hassle, and make parking work better for everyone.

LOCATION

Santa Clara, CA

DEVELOPED BY

Thalen Abadia and Henrique Oliveira

Our Team

The people building Parkd, from product to software to hardware.

Henrique Oliveira

Henrique Oliveira

Product Manager

Computer Science
& MIS

Class of '27

Thalen Abadia

Thalen Abadia

CTO

Computer Science & Engineering

Class of '28

Oliver Presello

Oliver Presello

Lead Software Engineer

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Class of '29

Berk Vakar

Berk Vakar

Software Engineer

Computer Science & Engineering

Class of '28

Ivan Jaregui

Ivan Jaregui

Hardware & Networking Engineer

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Class of '28