Ellie Popoca
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Ellie Popoca

Product Developer in Champaign, IL, She/Her

probably studying!

A year ago

About

Young creative interested in gamified education, development, and the new and creative internet.

Contact

LinkedIn
GitHub

Education

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

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

Work Experience

2023 — Now
New York, NY

Developing web development curriculum for the edtech startup based in NY, while working on the product team alongside former Head of Growth @ Codecademy

2023 — Now
Product Developer Intern at Acxiom

Leading a team of 5 to reconstruct the AAM (Application Availability Monitoring) user interface using VueJS, Kubernetes, Docker, and Figma.

2022 — Now

Mentored students and organizers at over 30+ hackathons across North America. Hosted technical workshops and live streams for international audiences relating to Product Design, Game Design, and code for over 350+ participants.

Volunteering

2021 — 2023
Software Developer at Hack4Impact

Collaborated with a team of 10 to develop the mobile application for the nonprofit 7000 Languages, helping their mission of language revitalization. Frontend developer using React Native, Redux, and MongoDB.

2022 — 2023
Product Designer at Illinois Design Consulting

Learned and Explored Human Centered Design to support the rebuilding of the Gies Business Consulting Website.

2021 — 2022
Marketing Director at TechTogether Chicago
Chicago, IL

Led the Marketing Team to contact over 1k universities across the Midwest, and gathered over 300+ attendees.

Projects

2022

Created a data collection system through a language-learning interface with React Native.

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