Juan Abarca

University of California Irvine - Irvine, CA

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

GPA: 3.4

June 2020

Social Media Site - Live Site | GitHub                                                                            Jan. 2021 - Apr. 2021

JavaScript, React, MongoDB, Express, Node

• Created a full-stack web app that allows users to create posts with images, follow other users, like posts, and more
• Used React and CSS to create the user interface for the front-end app
• Implemented a RESTful API with Express and Node to service requests made by the front-end app

Search Engine

Python, MongoDB, Natural Language Toolkit

• Implemented a web scraper to parse and store the text of web pages
  
• Reduced the time to retrieve search results by optimizing how text was stored in the database
• Used page ranking to produce links to websites that were most relevant to the user's search query

Programming - Java, Python, C++

Databases - MongoDB, PostgreSQL

Tools - Express, Node, React

Other - REST APIs, Git, Unit Testing, Shell Scripting