Technical Experience

May 2022 - August 2022
Seattle, Washington - Qualtrics

I had the opportunity to obtain an internship at Qualtrics, where I worked as a Software Development Engineer Intern on an internal Flask REST API that will help save around 100 days of engineering time per quarter. I made a lot of friends and memories during those four months in Seattle. One of the best experiences in my life!

August 2021 - January 2022
El Paso, Texas - The University of Texas at El Paso

During this time I worked as an Instructional Assistant for a Computer Architecture class of 50 students. I helped them with questions regarding architecture concepts, as well as with coding related questions. For this classed, we used C as the primary language for the assignments, and RISCV as the architecture for explaining concepts.

September 2020 - December 2020
El Paso, Texas - The University of Texas at El Paso

For my first internship, I worked as a Web Developer Tester. My job was mostly related to testing web applications using tools such as NVDA for accessibility and Fiddler for testing security against injection attacks (HTML and SQL).

Personal Stuff

I was born in El Paso, Texas. However, most of my life, I have lived in La Paz, Baja California Sur. This is a small city in Mexico, a place for tourists to enjoy el malecon, seafood, and the view.

I attended a high school named CBTIS 230, where I was introduced to circuits, boolean algebra, physics, and other engineering and scientific topics. Although I was sure I wanted to do something related to the STEM field, I hadn't figured out what field I would pursue. During that time, I was in the Electronics workshop from my institution.

After graduating from high school, I returned to El Paso and attended classes at EPCC as a Physics major. At some point, I had the chance to enroll in a Computer Science class at my college. Ultimately, this class brought me a lot of fun and a lot of challenges.

Outside of school and work, I enjoy playing guitar, videogames, doing crochet, walking, and learning new things, specially if they bring me happiness.

Here are some pictures I took and thought of sharing, if you are interested.

Hello World!

My name is Alan Perez. I am a soon to graduate student at the University of Texas at El Paso in the field of computer science. I have experience in web development building REST APIs and web applications, as well as some Mobile Development. I am currently looking for opportunities to improve my skillset and become a resourceful software engineer.

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Connect 4

This is a server-client based Connect 4 game. The server provides the rules of the game, as well as an opponent to the player, while the client serves as an interface where the user can make their moves and see the status of the game. A star is shown at the bottom of the grid to indicate the last movement done for clarity

Technologies: PHP, Dart

Link: Client , Server

CAN Bus Visualizer

This is a web application written in React and Typescript. It allows an analyst to view information gathered from the CAN Bus of a vehicle. It displays the traffic gathered from the vehicle in a table, and it shows the sensors as nodes on a map (used Reactflow for the diagram). I lead the Front end team responsible for the look and feel of the application, and collaborated with the Backend team to define the API calls.

NOTE: I was a contributor to this project and the repository will be private until the end of 2022.

Technologies: React, Typescript

Link: Repository

Quiz App

This is a mobile multi-platform app. It obtains a list of questions from the University of Texas at El Paso's server. A user can then select a number of random questions to answer and receive a score and feedback at the end. It requires a user to authenticate themselves.

Technologies: Dart, Flutter

Link: Repository

Paper Rails

This is an iOS journal application. It allows the user to write entries, which are updated with current date. The development of the app is currently on pause, but additional features will be added, such as detecting the user's location and weather when an entry is created, record the user's mood, change appearance, etc.

Technologies: Swift, SwiftUI

Link: Repository

Languages and Frameworks

Languages

Python
Javascript / Typescript
Dart
Java
C
SQL

Web Development

HTML & CSS
React
Fast API
Flask
PHP

Other Technologies

Linux
Git
Github / Gitlab
Docker
REST APIs

And more coming in the way 🧐

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