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 Practitioner-Centered Design: A case study of a HCI-clinician collaboration on a virtual reality exposure therapy module for the treatment of PTSD in Health Care

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 processing.

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 libraries. Built story rings on Android Messenger to drive up by 15% more story engagement and boost connectivity amongst users using Java, Litho Framework, Android API, and Meta’s internal tools on Messenger Story's seen sheet. Released features to 100+ million daily active users in gatekeeping QA tests and public experiments.

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, leveraging Google Cloud Platforms API such as App Engine and Datastore. Contributed to open source software using Git and GitHub, conducted code reviews, participating in distributed development, and deployed the application on App Engine using Maven. Implemented java servlets to handle HTTP requests and deploy App Engine using Maven.

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