ivan-alvarez — portfolio● open to roles
# ~/whoami.md

Ivan Alvarez

"Computer engineer who likes building things across the stack — from web apps to embedded systems."

open projects/connect
2 internships
ServiceNow · SESLOC
3.85 GPA
B.S. Computer Engineering · Cal Poly SLO · '26
100+ taught
Bootcamp leader at Hack4Impact
# ~/projects/ — 6 entries
SIMBA Mars Rover logo
simba-mars-roverMars by 2030

Led Poly1Rover's restoration of a Mars rover prototype's kinematic engine and AI vision engine into an autonomous, headless-startup system. Connected a Starlink Mini satellite.

LinuxCEmbeddedYOLOWeb
RPS Computer Vision Game logo
rps-computer-vision93.3% accuracy

Built an interactive Rock-Paper-Scissors game with a custom CNN on an Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense — quantized to INT8 and shrunk 71% to 100.42 KB for on-device inference.

TensorFlowTinyMLC++Arduino
SESLOC Facilities Dashboard logo
sesloc-dashboardorg-wide

Built and deployed a Django app that centralized vendor management and replaced manual Excel workflows — SSO, maintenance requests, IT ticketing.

DjangoSQLite3IIS
RISC-V FPGA CPU logo
riscv-fpga-cpu~1.5× perf

A 32-bit CPU on a Basys3 board with a 5-stage pipeline and L1 cache. Hazard detection, forwarding, and caching delivered a ~1.5× boost over non-pipelined design.

SystemVerilogVivadoRISC-V
Reliable File Transfer Protocol logo
reliable-ftpconcurrent transfers

Selective-Reject ARQ over UDP with a sliding window and FSM-driven flow control. Custom circular buffer and a multi-process fork() server for concurrent transfers.

CUDPLinux
Food Co-op Referral App logo
food-coop-referral6 devs led

Architected a member-referral platform and led developers through an Agile approach. Shipped invite flows, referral tracking, and admin views.

Next.jsReactPostgreSQL
# ~/experience.log
  1. [sep 2025 — june 2026]
    Technical Lead@Poly1Rover

    Led a computer engineering team restoring the SIMBA Mars rover's kinematic engine and AI vision engine, incorporating headless boot sequencing and Starlink Mini satellite connectivity.

  2. [sep 2025 — june 2026]
    Associate Director of Engineering@Hack4Impact

    Board-level role balancing technical mentorship and org strategy — led the Developer Bootcamp and oversaw engineering initiatives across project teams.

  3. [summer 2025]
    Associate QA Software Engineering Intern@ServiceNow

    Automated 20+ QE test cases in Java/Selenium and validated end-to-end functionality for Agentic AI features.

  4. [sep 2024 — june 2025]
    Technical Lead@Hack4Impact

    Led a team to architect and develop the Paso Robles Food Co-op referral platform.

  5. [summer 2024]
    Systems Development Intern@SESLOC Credit Union

    Developed and deployed the Facilities Dashboard Application on SESLOC's network, centralizing vendor management.

  6. [sep 2023 — june 2024]
    Full Stack Developer@Hack4Impact

    Developed a volunteer management system for a nonprofit supporting undocumented students

# ~/skills.json
"languages": [
PythonJavaCTypeScriptSystemVerilogRISC-V AsmSQL
]
"tools": [
TensorFlowPyTorchReactNext.jsNodeDjango
]
"systems": [
LinuxEmbeddedFPGANetworksGitDatabases
]
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