Austin Maldonado

About Me

Beginner engineer excited to begin a new career in software engineering. Passionate worker and proven leader with excellent time/project/priority management skills; driven to succeed at any task. Capable learner who can not only rapidly close any knowledge gap, but enjoys teaching others.

Experience

Texas State University

San Marcos, TX

CS 2308 Grader

Spring 2020 - Fall 2020

  • Provided accurate feedback and grading of class assignments by developing a testing procedure utilizing university provided Linux servers.
  • Recorded class statistics to update professor/students on class performance by scheduling consistent grading procedures through supplied university grading suite.
  • Consistently communicated with students regarding grading and correction opportunities by responding to queries in a timely fashion using quality communication skills.
  • C++
  • Programming Fundamentals
  • Computer Science Education

CT Johnson Highschool

San Antonio, TX

Band Director

July 2016 - July 2017

  • Led daily class for a classroom of up to 65 students by preparing thorough task management plans using priority and time management skills.
  • Coordinated extra rehearsals and performances by establishing quality communication systems with parents and administration using interpersonal communication skills.
  • Provided accurate assessment and planning for program of 200+ students with team of staff by implementing lesson scheduling using project management skills.
  • Education
  • Leadership
  • Communication

Projects

MIPS Processor Emulator

Applied principles of processor development to semester-long project of increasing complexity using C++. Implemented 8 stage pipeline with instruction fetch, decode, processing, memory, and writeback stages. Forwarding paths and cache implemented to increase performance and decrees processing time.

Spotify API WebApp

Applied agile software engineering principles to semester-long team project utilizing javascript, node.js, and mySQL. Implemented features using Spotify Web API to give users greater control over their playlists. Utilized Spotify Playback SDK library to play music through the user's browser.

NFL Analysis Visualizer

Utilized matplotlib and pandas libraries to develop a python script that creates visualization of NFL player statistics. Applied data analysis basics to gather information from nflfastpy datasets and filter for each player's information. Implemented common data structures to contain and organize information for further processing for visualization.

Skills

    • Programming
    • C++
    • Python
    • Java
    • Javascript
    • Nodejs
    • HTML
    • CSS
    • MIPS assembly
      Technologies/Environments
    • Linux
    • Microsoft Windows
    • MySQL
    • MySQL Server
      Developer Tools
    • Git
    • Docker
    • Jenkins
    • AWS

Education

BSc in Computer Science

Texas State University

December 2021

3.83 GPA

BA in Education

Texas State University

May 2016

3.4 GPA