Computer Science + Electrical Engineering

I'm passionate about technology

Welcome to my website! My name is Pablo and I am a Master's in Computer Science student at USC.

My professional goal is to make people's life better, by doing what I enjoy doing the most: coding. I'm an engineer, but most importantly I'm a curious person. I'm always looking for new things to learn and I'm always open for new challenges and opportunities.

Personal projects

Amazon Alexa Soccer App

As a soccer fan and an Alexa enthusiast I decided to build my own app to get the latest updates from my favorite team. It's a serverless application with two parts: a back-end to pull the data, and the Alexa VUI (Voice User Interface) to interact with the data. The Alexa VUI can answer questions like: 'what's my team update?' or 'When is X playing Y?'. The back-end is a javascript function that scrapes a soccer stats website, to populate a DynamoDB database.

Take a look here!

Technologies: Amazon Lambda, DynamoDB, Alexa, JavaScript

GTFS Merger

The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) is a file format promoted by Google, that defines a common way for public agencies to share information about transportation schedules and associated geographic information. The script I wrote is a tool that was used to make data consistent with pre-existent scripts, used to analyze transportation accesibility in different South American cities.

Technologies: Python

Youtube Playlist Creator

This website can create a YouTube playlist based on a list of URL's. I like this project because I was able to play around with Google's authentication system, as well as with YouTube's API to control the user's account.

Technologies: JavaScript

See the source code here

Data Concentrator

This was my main project at Autotrol. It's a DNP3 data concentrator, with a back-end written in C++ and a front-end in Java. Since it's a propietary solution I don't own the rights to post it here.

Technologies: Java, C++

Where I studied

University of Southern California

MS in Computer Science

Instituto Tecnólogico de Buenos Aires

BS in Electrical Engineering - Signal Processing orientation

Where I worked

Qualcomm - San Jose, CA

Interim Engineering Intern May 2017 - Aug 2017

Designed and implemented a client-server application to onboard IoT devices using Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetopia Stack), ThreadX and a bleeding-edge Qualcomm chip.
Tested my code using Klocworks, Valgrind and other Qualcomm proprietary tools
Participated in an internal Hackathon, building an Augmented Reality application for Android

Autotrol - Buenos Aires, Argentina - 2012/2016

System Integrator - Mar 2012 - Jul 2016

Integration of Energy Management Systems (GE XA/21 PowerOn Reliance) Programmed DNP3 Data Concentrator for GPRS RTUs (Remote Terminal Units) based on opendnp3 open source implementation.
Collaborated with the opendnp3 user group software documentation.
Designed software and hardware for embedded systems.
Participated in Smart City project (Public Smart lightning system) for the city of Buenos Aires. Designed and implemented prototype of ZigBee network.

Hyperloop at USC - Los Angeles, CA

Flight Controls Team Leader - Aug 2016 – Present

Lead the flight controls team of Hyperloop at USC. The goal is to build a scaled-down version of a Hyperloop pod to compete in an international competition organized by SpaceX.
Designed the architecture of the data acquisition and control. Technologies: C and Java in the pod. Ground Control station is based on MEAN Stack (MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, Node.js).

Classes I've taken in USC

Analysis of Algorithms (CSCI-570)

Topics: Asymptotic Analysis, Greedy Algorithms, Dynamic Programming, Network Flow.
Professors: Viktor Adamchik, Shawn Shamsian
Class Website

Web Technlogies (CSCI-571)

Topics: Client and server-side web technologies. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, XML, PHP, AngularJS, Android.
Professors: Marco Papa
Class Website