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Alejandro
Pacheco

CS grad student @ USC. I build software at the intersection of engineering and data analytics. I'm always looking for the next problems to solve.

Los Angeles, CA CS M.S. @ USC Fluent in Spanish
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Alejandro Pacheco
undergrad gpa
3.88 / 4.0
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About

I'm a Computer Science graduate student at USC with a passion for building things at the intersection of software engineering, data, and machine learning.

My undergraduate degree at San Diego State (3.88 GPA, Weber Honors College) gave me a strong foundation in system design and algorithms. Since then I've shipped scalable products and features at companies like PlayStation, Expedia Group, and Daily Harvest - and I still teach what I know.

Outside of the classroom and coding, you'll likely find me watching new movies, at the gym, or hiking.

languages & tools
Python Java JavaScript C / C++ SQL Assembly Flask Django AWS GCP Terraform Tableau API
5+ internships & roles
3.88 Undergraduate GPA
70% Maintenance reduction @ PlayStation
500% Report time reduction @ USC Football
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Experience

USC Football
Analytics Intern
May 2025 — Present
  • Automated weekly data collection by integrating the PFF API, reducing report prep time by 500%.
  • Deliver weekly opponent analysis reports to support game preparation and strategy decisions.
  • Designing a customizable simulator using play-by-play data and expected points models to recommend optimal in-game choices.
Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation)
Documentation Tools Intern
May 2025 — Sep 2025
  • Built a JavaScript plugin for OxygenXML that integrates AWS Lambda to auto-notify users mentioned in documentation comments.
  • Reduced manual maintenance by 70% by designing webhook + email notification systems backed by DynamoDB.
  • Streamlined documentation workflow with user tagging, cutting engineer lookup and response times by 30%+.
Expedia Group
Data Science & Analytics Intern
May 2024 — Jul 2024
  • Developed a composite metric to assess retail customer service interaction effectiveness.
  • Queried millions of rows in SQL to identify satisfaction drivers and uncover growth opportunities.
  • Built executive-level Tableau dashboards; reduced phone service interaction length by 0.25% within month one.
AI4Business Lab — SDSU
Research Assistant
Apr 2024 — Jan 2025
  • Researched large language models and their applications to software engineering and code generation under Dr. Luwen Huangfu.
  • Analyzed hundreds of research papers to evaluate the future of large code models and identify open challenges.
San Diego State University
Teaching Assistant
Aug 2022 — May 2024
  • TA for Computer Organization across 2 sections (140+ students).
  • Wrote grading scripts to automatically evaluate student labs and homework.
  • Held 2 weekly office hours to mentor students on programming assignments.
Daily Harvest
Software Engineering Intern
May 2022 — Aug 2022
  • Upgraded legacy shipment-criteria logic by removing complex tool dependencies and refactoring to fit current systems.
  • Built shared libraries to improve server efficiency and code readability.
  • Created RESTful APIs with Flask and configured Terraform for async task queues on GCP.
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Projects

corporate
USC Football Analytics

Internal tooling for the USC Football analytics. Create data pipelines via the PFF API, generates weekly scouting reports, and powers a play simulator using expected points models for in-game decisions.

SQL PFF API Data Analytics
coming soon
Teamwork Job Parser

Python web scraping script that sends emails to users for new sports job openings in California.

Web Scraping Python
coming soon
Spotify Wrapped Clone

A Spotify Wrapped-style web application that visualizes your personal listening data.

Spotify API JavaScript
in progress
Fitness Tracker

In-progress fitness tracking application. Will be updated as the project develops.

↗ github
Personal Portfolio

This portfolio website, built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Continuously updated.

HTML CSS JavaScript
↗ github
Trivia Game

Java trivia game using a balanced binary tree to adaptively adjust question difficulty based on player performance.

Java Binary Tree
↗ github
Tic Tac Toe

Python TicTacToe built with Pygame to explore game development fundamentals as a foundation for future projects.

Python Pygame
repo private
Affine Transformation

Assembly-based program that applies rotate, reflect, or shear transformations to images following affine transformation math.

Assembly Image Processing
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Education

University of Southern California
M.S. Computer Science
Member of Trojan Sports Research Lab
Machine Learning · Geospatial Data · Algorithms · Databases
GPA: 3.5 / 4.0
San Diego State University
B.S. Computer Science · Statistics Minor
Summa Cum Laude, Weber Honors College, Dean's List 2021-2025
Data Structures · Computer Organization · Machine Learning · AI · Cloud Computing
Founded Aztec Quantum Computing Club, Teaching Assistant and Grader
GPA: 3.88 / 4.0
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Contact

I'm always open to hearing about new opportunities or research collaborations. Feel free to reach out!

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