i design things,
then make them work.
Software Engineer based in Miami, FL. NYU CS grad, splitting time between code and design.
Full-stack web apps and internal tools, plus computer-vision side projects like an ASL hand-gesture interpreter. Working prototypes available down below.
Graphic design, gaming, and vlog editing. Most nights I'm reading or reviewing sci-fi/fantasy, or in the kitchen experimenting with Latin/South Asian fusion.
//Experience
Software Engineer Intern, Business Intelligence
- Independently refactored a PHP partnership-management platform from a flat, duplicated codebase into an MVC architecture (custom Controllers/Models/Services/Views), reducing redundant logic across core modules.
- Worked on development of a full-stack Events tracker — PHP backend, MySQL schema, REST-style API endpoints, JS frontend — covering venue management, event tracking, and role-based access, coordinating with one other developer.
- Integrated Cloudflare R2 object storage for the assets manager and secure contract/file storage tied to contracted packages.
- Built an admin dashboard with live system-health monitoring and KPI reporting, querying MySQL to surface season-scoped metrics for leadership.
Software Engineer Intern
- Built 7+ production React components for a workforce-management dashboard, shipping a labor-hours distribution pie chart, an expenditure/financials tracking card, and a Promotion Eligibility table with live API data.
- Led a systematic migration of legacy global CSS to CSS Modules across 5+ dashboard chart components and added dark mode support, reducing style conflicts and improving long-term maintainability.
- Designed a consensus-based voting feature in Figma, from concept through user workflows and interactive prototypes, to guide upcoming platform development.
- Reviewed 20+ pull requests across frontend and backend repositories, providing feedback on code quality and correctness.
B.S. Computer Science
- Relevant coursework: Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Applied Internet Technologies, Data Structures, Algorithms, Linear Algebra.
- Involvement: Academic Achievement Program, Girls Who Code, Latinos Unidos Con Honor y Amistad.
//Software
Resumely
Generates ATS-friendly resumes from structured user input. Template based on Jake's Resume.
ASL Interpreter
Recognizes certain ASL hand gestures from a live camera feed using OpenCV and machine learning, served through a Flask backend and containerized with Docker.
Facial Attendance System
Real-time facial recognition attendance system using OpenCV and face_recognition, with a REST API and dashboard for viewing attendance data. Tested on a class of 80~ students.
Photobooth
Browser-based photobooth to create chic photo strips from anywhere.
AI Sales Transcription
Transcribes and summarizes sales calls in real time to surface key talking points, built at a hackathon.
//Book reviews
Empire of Silence (The Sun Eater, #1)
2/26: boring - 7/26: Honestly, what a read. To begin, and to build on the comment about the “boring” premise I’d made months before, I won’t take back what I said. The book, at times, did drawl. If it was unnecessary or not, I can’t really say so. That’s a question to answer with the following books in the series, of whether or not we truely needed the gladiator fights or to see Gribson teachings instead of reflecting back to them and being put straight into the narrative after Hadrian’s abandonment of Emesh. But in all honesty, by the end I was at a point where the stakes at play felt so immeasurably grand… and there is no satisfaction when stakes aren’t high. But it did take time to get to that point. I’m sure I’m neither the first nor last to have consistered this book boring at times, it was something I had to push through with. And I did. Because sometimes, in between the insistence of our author that this story ultimately has a riveting ending, with the destruction of some supposed star incoming, this book felt like a story that needed to be read from the start. I enjoyed how human-centric the writing was in how people engage. These written fleeting bonds suit the human psyche where we are wired to change with each passing minute. I enjoyed seeing Hadrian’s familial relationships for the few chapters it was, but I was particularly interested by how his first crush, first love, first bethrothed, and life long love all were all different individuals. It seemed very human, instead of the idealistic portrayal of romance many authors find themselves defaulting on. After all, often times we as people don’t stray in each others paths for long. And what a love for language, archeology, and religion and it’s role in humanity this story holds. Though obviously the violence is the engaging and fun parts to read, I did enjoy the passages where characters show their scholarist background. Religion and science will always be a story for the ages. Though I’m starting to wondering if I was wrong in thinking this book was a sci-fi. It often feels rooted in epic fantasies, so I supposed the title space opera is well earned. But the themes of no machines, an ancient God, and the foreshadowing that our protagonist has a connection with it does fall a bit within a fantasy category. I have no issue with it. Great book.
Dead Poets Society
I didn’t know the book came after the movie, but it makes a lot of sense. I’ll forgo all the qualms I had about the storytelling - it’s a given now that I know it was basically a manuscript of this movie I’ve never watched. But I admit, I did have my moments of recoil (during Knox scenes…) and confusion as a response to the (multiple!) hasty developments. So despite the played up atmosphere, the unnecessarily dangerous stakes, and the almost mundane yet fantastical narrative we’re taken into, I did enjoy this light read in a way. It was so easy to understand, so simple to enjoy. There’s no need to overcomplicate the message behind the rather nonsensical plot. I’m easy to please when it comes to existentialist studies, so it’s no surprise a piece that has been recognized for resonating with people across the decades has also somewhat found a way into my heart - because it truly is so simple to live. I love the art of passion, and I’ll never fault a piece of media for speaking to it. This review ended up being slightly more biased to my own desire to also be overzealous in life. But ultimately, I think I’ll enjoy the movie alot more. I felt as if I was missing out on alot while reading this, something that I think, like I said, watching the movie itself will fix. I never thought this would be the case for me. And in true nature of a Dead Poet, here’s my contribution to the cave readings (although not rly a poem): Everything is yours that you have desired, Yours, what you have loved, what you have struggled for. O believe, You were not born in vain, Have not lived in vain, suffered in vain! What was created must perish, What has perished must rise again. Tremble no more! Prepare yourself to live! —Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection"
The Palace of Dreams
— given that i’m a stranger to albanian history/politics and ottoman world-building, and the book clearly speaks to it, note this review regards only first thoughts, any final thoughts will shaped after researching into these influences. First Thoughts: Wow. I knew nothing about this book going in, I mistakingly assumed the dream-interpetation premise was going to lead to a short fantasy escapade for myself. Instead I found myself reading Albanian 1984 – yes, I was so incredibly wrong and shortsighted. There’s a tightness in not knowing, and the story pulls you taut throughout the narrative. There is no release, maybe a slight loosening at the end, but the neverending questions and the quippy answers you recieve feel magnetic. This is coming from somehow who loves to spoil themselves, who abhorssss being in the unknown: I genuinely found myself shutting myself in my room and reading the book from start to finish in between napping sessions throughout one night. You are told in the first few pages that the institution that is the Palace of Dreams is shrouded in mystery. And yet, we learn that the citizens of this “United Ottoman States” willingly pass on our dreams — which are, arguably, the most private embodiments of our thoughts, desires, and ultimately ourselves as the reader comes to realize — to the State for usage in controlling events that are predicted to befall them. As you can expect, a government that seems to surveil (perhaps, control?) it’s people through assets as intimate as our dreams very quickly becomes an object of questioning for our dear Mark-Alem. It’s almost funny to me that our paranoid main character feels like a rag doll pulled at the seams by the forces that propelled the world he’s in. Another small thing I enjoyed about the story telling of the book, is that everything feels out of control in the most restrained way. Even our protagonist, with his overthinking and self-preservation tendencies, finds himself growing hazy and faint. (Kadare really knows how to nod to the nature of dreaming, don’t even get me started on the lack of direction in the palace.) Before I get ahead of myself, it’s best I educate myself on the historical tensions that influences the institution that is the Palace of Dreams. For this, I thank the author, because there’s so much for me to learn here.