Jorge A. Eguiguren
Undergraduate student passionate about software engineering and self-driven to improve the access to educational resources in developing regions, specifically Latin America.
EDUCATION
Tufts University, School of Engineering | Medford, MA
Expected Graduation: May 2020, GPA: 3.94
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Bachelor of Science in Quant. Economics
Relevant Courses: Machine Structure & Assembly Language, Algorithms, Data Structures, Database Systems,
Web Programming, Digital Logic Circuits, Linear Algebra
Colegio Menor SFQ | Quito, Ecuador
May 2016, GPA: 4.0
Salutatorian / Summa Cum Laude / National Honor Society
EXPERIENCE
Federated Wireless | Boston, MA
Engineering Intern, May 2018 - Present
Implement test harness suites to trigger, monitor, and verify software call-flows for the Cloud Team.
Design APIs to facilitate deployment procedures, enhancing reliability and speeding up the process.
Engineered the back-end server of a full-stack Interop Web APP, which provides the Operations Team with a remote verification tool without the need of coordination with engineers.
Tufts Department of Computer Science | Medford, MA
Teaching Assistant for Data Structures & Intro to CS, Jan. 2018 - Present
Hold weekly office-hours and grade student’s coding course-work (Python & C++) and exams.
Quito Stock Exchange | Quito, Ecuador
Marketing & Sales Intern, July 2017 – Aug 2017
Developed an alternative fee system that appeared more attractive to other trading agents while also aligning to the institution’s financial objectives.
Modeled the costs and disadvantages that small firms face when entering the Corporate Bonds Market.
SKILLS
Programming Languages: C, Python, C++, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
Software Services: Amazon Web Services, Git, MongoDB
Languages: Spanish (native speaker), English (fluent)
PROJECTS
* Please contact me if you intend to see the source code, as I cannot post course projects publicly.Image Compressor/Decompressor
Compresses a PPM image by transforming color spaces and packing 4-pixel blocks into 32-bit words.
Implemented in C to take advantage of low level machine representations of numbers.
Universal Machine Emulator
3-phase project centered around the software implementation of a simple virtual machine.
Designed to understand machine instructions, analyze and improve performance, and code in assembly language.
Sublet-Browser Web App
Full-Stack implementation of a web platform for college students to post and find rooms off-campus.
Server-side written in NodeJS with the Express framework, using a NoSQL database.
ADVOCACY
Tufts International Development
Implement a sustainable project of Digital Libraries in the Coastal region of Ecuador, in collaboration with Libraries Without Borders and AVANTI (Ecuadorean NGO).
Tufts with Rwanda Fellowship
Ignited action within the Tufts community to raise awareness regarding past and present mass atrocities.