Samuel Rodriguez Email & Phone Number

San Mateo, California, United States

Ithaca, New York, United States

Mixed Reality Developer using Unity, C#, Blender, and Software Engineering principles to create virtual environments in distributed development with tools like Git for clinical applications such as PTSD treatment and Accessibility tools. Co-Authored A Framework for Broadly Accessible Social Virtual Reality and an Associated Codebase and.

Ithaca, New York, United States

Hosted over 336+ office hours, assisting a total of 960+ students. Graded 400+ weekly homework assignments and 300+ programming submissions. Created solutions for 2 sets of lecture exercises and 4 Python programming assignments. Achievements include enhancing the efficiency of a Computer Vision autograder by 73%, utilizing NumPy and Pandas for data.

Menlo Park, California, United States

Elevated mutual friend conversations and private sharing on Android Messenger while driving up story engagement by 15%, reaching over 100 million daily active users. Engineered Android Messenger copy-share stories to achieve a 5% increase in mutual friend conversations and private sharing using Kotlin, GraphQL, Litho Framework, and Meta’s internal.

Remote

Collaborated with a team to design and implement a chrome extension to identify misinformation on the web with 70% accuracy using Java, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, leveraging Google Cloud Platforms API. Managed a team to design and implement a chrome extension to flag users against misinformation on the web using Java, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS in 10 weeks.

United States

Tutored over 350 hours with students ages 8-26 under an average five-star review rating. Instructed Python & Java programming, SAT/ACT, and other STEM content. Improved 25+ student’s performance by one letter grade and 16 achieved 5 on AP exams

Ithaca, New York, United States

Efficiently managed operations in collaboration with 3 fellow supervisors, overseeing a team of 30 student workers. Introduced algorithmic methodologies to enhance efficiency across 10 food and beverage stations. For my leadership in operational excellence within a dynamic environment, I have received 5 "Supervisor of the Month" awards.

Tampa, Florida, United States

I was an intern as an Information Systems Assistant for the CTO of the Hillsborough Education Foundation. I helped maintain databases that logged faculty members and teachers of Hillsborough county and build websites to create an online teaching tools store where teachers could shop for school supplies. I used Microsoft Access and Microsoft ASP.NET framework

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Computer Science, 4.00

Activities and Societies: Computer Science Master of Engineering Diversity Scholarship, Intel Foundation Award

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science, 3.34

Activities and Societies: Ryan Scholar, Diversity in Engineering Program, Underrepresented Minorities in Computing, Engineering Math.

International Baccalaureate Diploma, 3.89

Activities and Societies: Mu Alpha Theta