COMPUTER SCIENCE @ UCFEXPECTED MAY 2027

BRANDENRIVERA.

Software Engineering Co-op
@ FedEx

Explore the work

At FedEx.

FedEx
Software Engineer Co-opMay 2026 — Present

111,041

devices captured
vs. 96,785 before

14,256 ADDITIONAL DEVICES

Engineering behind
the everyday delivery.

01

Closing a telemetry data gap

Traced a roughly 10,800-device discrepancy between validation runs to a stale, six-month-old external GPS snapshot. Co-built an in-house pipeline that normalized schemas from five telematics vendors and captured 111,041 devices versus 96,785 in the external file—a 14.7% increase that removed the dependency on an outside team.

Data pipelinesSchema normalizationRoot-cause analysis
02

Recovering missing Express telemetry

Diagnosed roughly 1,000 GPS validation failures caused by placeholder vehicle IDs and missing device mappings. Built a separate validation tool that pulls telematics data by vehicle number, surfacing GPS for 20,000+ Express vehicles across 656 previously untracked stations.

PythonData validationGPS telemetry
03

A more adaptable routing platform

Reworked the map view of RWC, an internal Django/OpenLayers platform used by 100+ employees. Replaced hover tooltips that caused disruptive map panning with reusable click-based popups and implemented independent, data-driven route filters so new filters require no additional logic.

DjangoOpenLayersReusable UI logic
04

Operational visibility

Built an ArcGIS Online dashboard with service-area and station-level drilldowns, replacing a static Excel report and automating weekly refreshes so managers could review current GPS validation status.

ArcGIS OnlineDashboardsAutomation

Projects.

Systems, applied AI, data engineering,
and application development.
Open an entry for scope and status.

01
C17 / POSIX

Mini Database
Engine

A single-file database engine in C17 that stores rows in 4 KB pages behind a page cache, indexed by a B+ tree that grows to any height for O(log n) inserts, lookups, updates, and deletes.

Made every write crash-safe with a redo write-ahead log, ordered fsync commits, and replay on restart. Added CRC-32 page checksums, request-ID idempotency, a single-writer file lock, and begin/commit/rollback transactions; verified with 170+ tests, kill -9 crash cases, reference-model randomized testing, and AddressSanitizer/UBSan fuzzing.

02
PYTHON / FASTAPI / SQLITE / OPENROUTER

Model-Routing
Code Agent

An LLM coding agent that executes multi-step software tasks through structured Read, Write, Delete, and Bash tools using an iterative tool-calling loop with runtime and execution limits.

Created an 18-task evaluation harness comparing three models across six task categories. The FastAPI and SQLite application persists conversations, handles provider fallback, explains routing decisions, and includes 62 automated tests.

03
PYTHON / DUCKDB / AWS / TERRAFORM / REACT

Deadlock Analytics
Platform

A serverless AWS pipeline that ingests new Parquet files from a public Deadlock match data lake each hour and publishes per-hero win rate, pick rate, and match-length statistics.

Added DuckDB deduplication, late-data coverage rules, and pre-publish validation; delivered a React/TypeScript dashboard with Wilson-confidence hero tiers and trend charts through private S3 and CloudFront, with infrastructure defined in Terraform.

DEADLOCK ANALYTICS · DEMO Explore the live dashboard ↗
04
PYTHON / PYTORCH / FLYWIRE

Fly Plays
Pokémon

In progress

A Pokémon Showdown project centered on a FlyWire-derived fruit-fly connectome. The model will encode battle states, propagate sparse neural activity through a biologically constrained network, and decode legal moves and switches.

The initial milestone is behavior cloning recorded Gen 1 OU decisions, comparing the connectome-constrained policy with control topologies, and visualizing battle and neural telemetry in a web interface.

Technical
skills.

EDUCATION

University of Central Florida

B.S. Computer Science
Expected May 2027

Languages

C, C++, Python, Java,
JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL

Frameworks

React, Django, FastAPI, Flask

Cloud & DevOps

AWS Lambda, S3, CloudFront,
Athena, EventBridge, IAM,
CloudWatch, Terraform

Tools & databases

Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions,
DuckDB, SQLite, Bash,
ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online

Data & machine learning

Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib,
Scikit-learn

Certification

AWS Academy
Cloud Security Foundations