Professional Experience


Code Coach

theCoderSchool
  • Mentored and instructed students (ages 5–18) in coding languages including Scratch and Python through private lessons, group classes, and collaborative app development projects
  • Guided students in designing and building applications, fostering problem-solving, creativity, and computational thinking

Generative AI Chatbot Developer

Community School of the Arts Foundation
  • Designed and deployed AI-powered lesson plan generator for K-12 arts educators using OpenAI API, producing curriculum-aligned content with built-in accessibility and differentiation features
  • Engineered full-stack web application using React, AWS, and NLP techniques, implementing structured prompt engineering framework and JSON validation for educational standards compliance
  • Authored comprehensive internship report documenting ethical AI deployment in education, including bias-mitigation strategies and data privacy considerations for underserved communities

Language Specialist/Quality Assurance Specialist

Innodata, Inc.
  • Audit annotation quality and compliance using Excel, contributing to high-quality training data for machine learning and NLP models
  • Co-developed an IRAR (Inter-Rater Agreement and Review) tool in Python that streamlined QA workflows, reducing annotation review time by approximately 40% across data from 35+ raters

Education


2026 - Present
PhD in Criminology and Criminal Justice
University of Massachusetts Lowell
2024 - 2026
Master of Science in Human Language Technology
The University of Arizona
2022 - 2024
Bachelor of Arts in Applied Linguistics
Georgia State University

Skills


Programming Languages & Scripting

  • Python
  • R

Software

  • Shell scripting (HPC clusters)
  • LaTeX
  • Docker
  • R Studio

NLP & ML Tools

  • spaCy
  • NLTK
  • scikit-learn
  • BeautifulSoup4

Languages

  • English (native)
  • Portuguese (fluent)
  • Spanish (working)