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Finn Childress

Computer Science Major
at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

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About Me


  • Third year BS of Computer Science Major at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
  • Previous Software Engineering Intern at Cisco Systems Inc. in San Jose, CA
  • Previous Software Engineering Intern at Viasat Inc. in Carlsbad, CA
  • Currently manage an online gaming business (Advancius) that uses cloud services and SQL databases to provide a multiplayer gaming experience to users.
  • Collaborated to create multiple mobile apps and win hackathon awards
  • Accomplished CAD designer
  • 2nd in CA Club Wrestling State Tournament (141 lbs)

Education

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA

Sept 2017 - June 2021

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Major GPA: 3.67 | Overall GPA: 3.62

Experience

Cisco Systems Inc.

Software Engineering Intern

  • 11-weekdata analytics summer internship
  • Created Java microservice architecture for company data augmentation using Java frameworks, Maven, and data queueing to convert data storage from Hadoop database to Mongo database
  • Created Python application to upload Hive data tables onto Hadoop database platform

ViaSat Inc.

Software Engineering Intern

  • Created the “Unified VIPSAM Portal” (UVP) over 10 weeks
  • Created and hosted a Linux Virtual Machine using a Mongo database and NodeJS utilizing Python, JavaScript, and HTML/CSS
  • UVP is a user-based web application that allows users to display fleets on a map, view plane trouble tickets, and generate data reports from real-time terminal data streams
  • Users include ViaSat, Airforce One, and general aviation satellite communication operators

Self-Employed

Owner and Creator of Global Internet Gaming Service

  • Independent ongoing project with revenue
  • Website: www.advancius.net
  • Over 50,000 users & over 1,000,000 website views with more than $3000 in revenue thus far
  • Currently develop and manage an online 24/7 internet gaming service that gives an enhanced multiplayer gaming experience to the game of Minecraft for thousands of players
  • Service coded in Java and SQL with website coding in HTML/CSS and JavaScript
  • Manage funds and profit of server and a staff of 20+ employees

Anticipate Ventures, LLC

Computer Aided Design Designer

  • 12+ Hours/week
  • Developed UV sanitation prototype models using CAD (Solidworks)
  • Worked with a team to test and refine for commercial use

Projects

Poly Pins (Placed in Hackathon)

  • Poly Pins is an iOS application that helps users to find places around the Cal Poly Campus
  • Demo Video: YouTube Link
  • Poly Pins uses augmented reality (AR) and Google Cloud Firebase (Cloud Database Hosting) to show the users various pins that represent places that can be found on campus
  • Created using XCode/Swift
  • 3rd Place in SLO Hacks 2018

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Nudge

  • Nudge is a React Native application that decreases the effects of Narcolepsy for users
  • Demo Video: YouTube Link
  • Nudge has a crowdsourced to-do list page of tips and tricks from other people with narcolepsy
  • Nudge also provides users with a graph of “sleepiness” trends created from machine learning during the day/sleepiness predictiveness and keeps track of daily activities to determine a graph of thier sleep patterns
  • Created using React Native and Machine Learning with a Firebase database (Real-time Cloud Storage)

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