Hello. I'm Theresa

I am a MS in CS student at NYU seeking fall and spring software engineering internships. If you end up liking what you see, feel free to download my resume!

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@theresatvan

software engineer,
full-time cat mom

Education

New York University, Tandon School of Engineering

M.S. in Computer Science

Sept 2022 - Present

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

B.S. in Computer Science, Minor in Statistics

Sept 2016 - May 2020

Notable Skills

Java
JavaScript
Python
R
HTML/CSS
C++
Spring Boot
Node.js
React
Bootstrap
Gatsby.js
MongoDB
Splunk
AWS EC2/S3
Jira
Data Structures & Algorithms
Design & Analysis of Algorithms

Experience

CrowdStrike

Technical Support Engineer

June 2020 - July 2021

◆ Troubleshooted customer cases and provided viable solutions to ensure an average customer satisfaction grade of 9 out of a score of 10
◆ Streamlined the procedure spinning up AWS EC2 images by integrating the process with Cloudformation templates
◆ Crafted comprehensive Splunk queries that return events necessary for threat hunting and detection explanation cases

CrowdStrike

Customer Success Intern

May 2019 - May 2020

◆ Integrated AWS EC2 into the Customer Success team's testing and training processes
◆ Led and deployed training initiative troubleshooting CrowdStrike products by creating interactive images simulating common cases through VMWare
◆ Developed an internal Python application that retrieves client data from multiple Excel files and compiles that data into a Quarterly Business Report (QBR) draft, improving the creation of QBR’s to be 6 times faster than its previous average creation time

Projects

N-Queens Puzzle

Java, Artificial Intelligence

Implements the Genetic Algorithm and Simulated Annealing optimization techniques using Java, comparing the average runtime and search costs of 500 test cases.

A* Search w/ 8-Puzzle

Java, Artificial Intelligence

Implements A* algorithm through a graph search and a tree search. Each search is done with two heuristic measures: one that measures the amount of misplaced tiles and the other measures the distance of all the misplaced tiles from their correction location in a given state. Compares the time it takes to execute each algorithm with each heuristic and the amount of nodes searched.

Zipf's Law

Python, Scrapy, Web Searching

Perform web crawling on CNN's English, Spanish, and Italian websites using Scrapy framework and parsing HTML data. Using Zipf's Law on the parsed HTML data, rank words based on how frequently they appear.

PlanEasy

Java, Spring Boot, JavaScript, React, MongoDB

A responsive web application that allows users to query Cal Poly Pomona Events and schedule events to their personal calendar.

Communities & Crime Regression Analysis

R, Linear Regression

Multiple linear regression models predicting violent crimes per capita in a given community based on a data set provided by the 1990 US Census, 1990 US Lemas survey, and 1995 FBI UCR. Test for multicollinearity by calculating variance inflation factors and remove collinear predictors from the model. Cross validation performed using the holdout method and leave-one-out cross validation.
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