Ellie Popoca
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Ellie Popoca

Curriculum Developer in Chicago, she/they

When im back in Chicago, I feel it! (Home, at last!) In my video editing era.

A month ago

About

Creative technologist located in Chicago, hoping to reach and explore creative coding communities + engage in education spaces.

Contact

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GitHub

Work Experience

2024 — Now
New York, NY

designing the p5.js and Git & GitHub course! Currently making project tutorial videos for users (˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶) .ᐟ.ᐟ

2022 — 2023

Attended over 40+ hackathons both in person and online across the usa to teach about project sprinting and technologies ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪

2023 — 2023
Product Developer Intern at Acxiom

led a team of 5 software engineers to redesign and implement changes to internal tooling for software monitoring!

2023 — 2023

Volunteering

2021 — 2023
Software Developer at Hack4Impact

created frontend for a few hack4impact nonprofits :) ౨ৎ ˖ ࣪⊹

2021 — 2022
Marketing Director at TechTogether Chicago
Chicago, IL

led the marketing for the event feb of 2022 for over 300+ students in the Chicago area! <3

Education

2021 — 2024
Bachelor of Information Sciences at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana-Champaign, IL

Human-Computer Interaction with a Minor in Game Studies and Design

Awards

2023

Attended the Figma "Config" conference with an all-expenses paid trip to San Francisco, California.

2023

Built Forte, a BeReal version of music, collaborating and sharing recommendations with friends using React, TailwindCSS, and MongoDB.

2023

built a tool to track an event and its attendees' carbon footprint using SvelteKit, TailwindCSS, and MongoDB.

2021
Award for Aspirations in Computing from NCWIT

Selected out of 10,000 students as a high school senior for outstanding participation in technology spaces.

2021
Google Computer Science Summer Institute Scholar from Google

Designed and developed projects under the mentorship of Google engineers