Alexander Garcia

Creative, motivated software engineering student with a passion for innovation that will impact the world.

As a software engineer, I enjoy my obsessive attention to the smallest details, my love for envisioning and creating things, and my mission-driven ethic to change the world. That's why I'm enthusiastic about creating a big impact at an innovative company.

"I want to create things that make a difference."

DSC Webmaster @ Developer Student Clubs CSUSM
Aug 2019 - Present
- Designed and developed the club's static website utilizing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for the front-end and Python for the back-end.
- Monitored, analyzed, and optimized the site's performance in order to increase the number of visitors. This optimization led to a decrease in page load times by 20 percent.
- Made the website's codebase readily available to all the student leaders of Google's Developer Student Clubs program.
DSC Lead @ Developer Student Clubs CSUSM
Aug 2019 - Present
- Selected by Google as 1 of 100+ leads from North America to develop a thriving community of student developers.
- Built an amazing team of student developers who are highly skilled in the latest tech ranging from front-end, back-end, and mobile app development.
- Recognized as DSC CSUSM under the Developer Student Clubs initiative by Google Developers.
Google CSSIx Teaching Assistant @ CSU San Marcos
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
- Assisted the lead instructor in teaching college freshman HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Git, and the Google App Engine.
- Taught mob programming in order to encourage clear and effective communication.
Project Manager @ T-Zero
Jan 2019 - Present
- Developing a modern and intuitive spaceflight tracker app for Android with Java.
- Integrated the Launch Library API to retrieve real-time spaceflight data.
- Designed the UX/UI by adopting Material Design principles in order to enhance the user experience.
- Implemented a Kanban system in order to help the team scale down the amount of work in progress.

dsccsusm.org

A web app for Developer Student Clubs CSUSM.

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Statify

A web app for visualizing personalized Spotify data. View your top artists, top tracks, and profile stats.

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T-Zero

A modern and intuitive spaceflight tracker app for Android.

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Raccoon

Reserving rooms at CSUSM is a hassle. So why not let Raccoon do it? This project started with a Python script that web scraped CSUSM's "Reserve a Study Room" site and automatically reserved rooms if they were available.

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Creative, motivated software engineering student with a passion for innovation that will impact the world.

dsccsusm.org

Statify

T-Zero

Raccoon

California State University San Marcos

B.S. Software Engineering

Expected Graduation May 2022

GPA 3.62

Designed & Built by Alexander Garcia