Julian Vega

Built and shipped a React + TypeScript dashboard module for tenant usage metrics; cut support ticket volume on billing questions ~18% during the pilot cohort. Implemented Node.js REST endpoints and Prisma migrations for usage aggregation; added Jest coverage for edge cases around timezone boundaries and partial-day invoices. Wrote a GitHub Actions workflow that ran lint, unit tests, and Playwright smoke checks on PRs; median CI feedback time dropped from ~14 to ~6 minutes. Pair-reviewed 20+ PRs with mentors; documented API contracts in OpenAPI and fixed three high-severity race conditions in the async job worker. Instrumented key flows with OpenTelemetry traces and Datadog dashboards so on-call could spot elevated error rates within one deploy window.

Maintain and extend internal Next.js tools used by ~8,000 students for lab reservations and printer quotas; reduced peak-hour 500s by hardening retry logic on the reservation API. Built a Python FastAPI microservice that syncs LDAP group membership into an access-control cache; weekly sync job runtime fell from 42 to 11 minutes. Triage Tier-2 tickets with ITS staff; authored runbooks for common SSO and MFA failures that cut mean first-response time ~25% on the student portal queue. Mentored two first-year volunteers on Git hygiene, code review etiquette, and writing reproducible bug reports.

LonghornHack 2025: led a 4-person team building a real-time collaborative whiteboard (WebSockets + Redis); placed Top 10 / 62 teams and demoed to three local startup mentors. Shipped a freelance inventory mini-app for a local maker space (React + Supabase); owners track 400+ tool checkouts with QR scan and overdue reminders. Open-source contributions: 6 merged PRs to a popular TypeScript CLI (flag parsing + better error messages); maintain a personal monorepo of algorithm practice and system-design notes.

Expected May 2027 · GPA 3.72 / 4.00 Relevant coursework: Data Structures, Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Databases, Computer Networks Organizations: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Longhorn Developers

QuotaBoard — Campus printer/lab quota UI built with Next.js + FastAPI for an ITS pilot. CollabCanvas — Real-time whiteboard with WebSockets + Redis; LonghornHack 2025 Top 10. MakerTrack — React + Supabase tool checkout app for an Austin maker space.