Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola

Harvard Business School

University of South Florida

Software Engineer @ Roblox

San Francisco, California, United States

Roblox

Software Engineer

- Led a team of 9 people in most technical areas required for the day to day operations of an agile software engineering team.
-  Spearheaded architectural decisions related to the development, migration, consolidation, and deprecation of owned services.
-  Drove 15+ cross-functional projects and initiatives, ensuring all team deliverables and expectations were attainable, and actively participated in all aspects of project execution: Planning, design, execution, testing, monitoring and maintenance.
            

    
    

    
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Twitter

Team Tech Lead - Scaled Enforcement Tools

- Developed a tool consisting of 35+ signals displayed as dashboards that help agents identify compromised accounts
-  Migrated an automation tool used by hundreds of agents to a modern tech stack, enhancing functionality and security.
-  Maintained a set of 10+ tools with over 5MM pageviews/day, while executing on customer requests, implementing quarterly planned features, tracking usage and performance metrics, and leading junior engineers on prioritized projects.

Software Engineer - Scaled Enforcement Tools

- Increased performance of 3 fake engagement models by roughly 15% through feature engineering and parameter tuning.
-  Performed an analysis that led to the permanence of a model that detects 175K daily fake follows in the platform.
-  Proposed and developed from scratch a technically detailed onboarding guide for upcoming members of the team.

Machine Learning Intern - Health ML

- Led five weekly Pre Calculus and Physics I sessions of 20 students each, addressing theoretical and practical questions.
-  Guided students on everything related to classes, scholarship/internship opportunities and student organizations.
-  Facilitated study groups while also encouraging students to take advantage of teamwork when completing assignments.

Learning Team Peer Leader - College of Engineering

- Developed a safety mechanism to protect the Twitter platform from NSFW Twitter Cards, filtering 1000 tweets/minute.
-  Added clustering functionality to an internal tool used to action on spammers, improving effectiveness by 40%.
-  Supported different engineering teams by completing mid-size tasks related to bot creation and spam detection.

Software Engineering Intern - Product Safety

- Founded a student organization and led all of the structural, organizational and financial efforts to establish it on campus.
-  Established and directed the Executive Board, while educating all of the officers about their roles and responsibilities.
-  Provided legal, educational and personal assistance to our community members in their transition to college and to the US.

Venezuelan Student Alliance at USF

Founding President

Latin American Student Association at USF

Senior Advisor

- Assisted student residents with everything related to mailing offices, mailboxes and housing assignments.
-  Maintained records of everything that happened in the office while serving as a host to all the incoming guests.
-  Offered advise to student residents about the management of their mailing, change of locks and work order procedures.

USF Housing

Community Office - Desk Clerk

- Directed an Executive Board of 12 officers and represented 400 student members inside and outside the USF community.
-  Maintained organization's financial accounts together with the Treasurer.
-  Established connections with all the other student organizations on campus in order to collaborate and settle professional relationships among the students at our University.
-  Organized, coordinated, assisted and hosted around 15 events per semester with an average attendance of 300 people per event.
            

    
    

    
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President

- Maintained organization's financial accounts.
-  Determined, along with the rest of the Executive Board, the allocation of the funds.
-  Submitted biweekly financial reports to the Executive Board outlining allocated funds, working budgets, corporate solicitations, unexpected expenses, among others.
-  Served as the communicational and financial bridge between the Student's Government and the organization.

Alexander Alava Chonchol