Ellie Popoca
Product Developer in Champaign, IL, She/Her
probably studying!
About
Young creative interested in gamified education, development, and the new and creative internet.
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Work Experience
Developing web development curriculum for the edtech startup based in NY, while working on the product team alongside former Head of Growth @ Codecademy
Leading a team of 5 to reconstruct the AAM (Application Availability Monitoring) user interface using VueJS, Kubernetes, Docker, and Figma.
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
Learned and Explored Human Centered Design to support the rebuilding of the Gies Business Consulting Website.
Led the Marketing Team to contact over 1k universities across the Midwest, and gathered over 300+ attendees.
Projects
Created a data collection system through a language-learning interface with React Native.
Awards
Attended the Figma "Config" conference with an all-expenses paid trip to San Francisco, California.
Built Forte, a BeReal version of music, collaborating and sharing recommendations with friends using React, TailwindCSS, and MongoDB.
built a tool to track an event and its attendees' carbon footprint using SvelteKit, TailwindCSS, and MongoDB.
Selected out of 10,000 students as a high school senior for outstanding participation in technology spaces.
Designed and developed projects under the mentorship of Google engineers