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Andres Daniel Lopez

Mechatronics Engineering student. Machine learning, knowledge graphs, and embedded hardware.

U.S. citizen, clearance eligible. Bilingual English and Spanish.

[email protected] · github · linkedin

education

University of Maryland, College Park · Aug 2026 to present

B.S. Mechatronics Engineering, expected May 2028 · Universities at Shady Grove

  • A. James Clark School of Engineering, Mechatronics delivered at the Shady Grove campus
  • Coursework: ENMT 301 Structural Dynamics, mass-spring-damper systems, homogeneous and particular solutions
  • USG Makerspace safety certification, Fall 2026
  • Founding the Luna Terps NASA Lunabotics team

Howard Community College · 2024 to 2026

Transferred to UMD Mechatronics Engineering, Fall 2026 · Engineering transfer coursework

  • Thermodynamics, Mechanics of Materials, Physics III optics and waves, Differential Equations, Calculus sequence

Montgomery College · Prior enrollment

Transfer credits applied toward the engineering degree · General engineering coursework

Calvert Hall College High School · 2018 to 2022

VEX Robotics Team 5588C, four seasons · High School Diploma

  • Robotics Club, and mentor at the CHC Robotics Summer Camp

experience

Skyward IT Solutions · 2026 to present

AI/ML Engineer, part time, converted from intern

  • I interned at Skyward IT Solutions in Rockville, working on knowledge graphs, databases, and MCP servers for proposal support, and I'm staying on part time working on government solutions.

Eastland Food Corporation · Jun 2024 to Aug 2024

Operations and Logistics Intern, full time

  • Analyzed operational and customer data to find process improvements across distribution channels
  • Built daily production-ready schedules with clients and warehouse teams so items were prepared ahead of shipment windows
  • Designed daily delivery and driver route schedules for suppliers across the U.S., matching driver availability to delivery deadlines
  • Managed customer orders, complaints, and supplier communication in English and Spanish

CHC Robotics Summer Camp, Calvert Hall College High School · Summers 2018 to 2022

Robotics Mentor and Camp Counselor

  • Mentored teams of three to five students in grades 6 to 9 in VEX robot design, C++, and competition strategy
  • Designed and programmed demonstration robots to teach mechanical and autonomous concepts
  • Coached teams through a camp-wide tournament

projects

Sporacle · live · 2025 to present

Python, DuckDB, LightGBM, Astro, Cloudflare Workers

  • NFL decision service for the 2026 season: calibrated win likelihood and fantasy projections served as static artifacts. The claim is calibration, not beating the market, and market data is banned as both a product surface and a model input.
  • Earlier multi-sport work across NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL used XGBoost with per-sport Elo systems. The NHL backtest reached 58.8 percent with correct back-to-back handling.
  • Found and fixed NBA data leakage where post-game Elo bled into pre-game features, correcting reported accuracy from 92.5 percent to an honest 68.5 percent.

Pixity, city builder · 2025 to present

C++ and Vulkan 1.3 originally; Three.js and AWS in the rebuild

  • Original: incremental city builder written from scratch in C++ and Vulkan with ECS architecture, procedural city and road generation, and a save system with offline progress.
  • Rebuild: browser voxel city builder with a real-world-inspired economy of debt, loans and property taxes, a live commodity price feed, and AWS infrastructure across S3, CloudFront, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Cognito, Terraform and Jenkins.

BD-1 bipedal robot · 2026 to present

Raspberry Pi 5, Hailo-8L, Teensy 4.1, ESP32-S3, MuJoCo, SB3 PPO

  • Life-size dynamically walking droid with fully local AI. A 2.5 kg mass ceiling and 13 servos, STS3250 class at the torque-critical joints, with the Teensy running real-time gait and the ESP32-S3 handling wireless telemetry.
  • Phase 0 is MuJoCo simulation and PPO gait training. The target is a voice command plus a pointing gesture triggering a walk across a room and back.

diffeq-ti84 · 2025 to 2026

Calculator-constrained Python, exact rational arithmetic

  • Differential equations toolkit built inside TI-84 memory limits: no f-strings, 28 character lines, byte-budgeted builds and lazy loading.
  • Exact rational arithmetic, 921 tests across 13 suites.

leadership

Luna Terps, NASA Lunabotics team, UMD Shady Grove · Sep 2026 to present

Founder and Project Lead

  • Founding USG's first NASA Lunabotics entry with roughly eight Mechatronics students. Year-one targets are the Nova Award, First Steps, and a Caterpillar Autonomy top six finish.
  • Robot baseline is a bulldozer blade with a rear hopper. Planned stack: ROS 2 Humble, Nav2, Jetson AGX Orin, RealSense D435 and D455, VESC and ODrive over CAN, LiFePO4.
  • Leading the Project Management Plan and Statements of Support.

VEX Robotics Team 5588C, Calvert Hall College High School · 2018 to 2022

Robotics Club

  • Maryland State Champion in 2021 and 2022, ranked first in Maryland.
  • Won the Science Division of the 2021 VEX Robotics World Championship, 38 teams, in the live remote skills format with alliance partner 66799A. Advanced to the Elite Eight, finishing among the top 16 teams worldwide.
  • Won the first Maryland VRC event of the 2021-22 season and the Skills Champion award.
  • Designed and programmed autonomous and driver-controlled robots in C++.

Boy Scouts of America, Troop 702 · Eagle Scout 2021, ASM 2021 to present

Eagle Scout and Assistant Scoutmaster

  • Planned and led an Eagle Scout community service project.
  • Mentor Scouts in leadership development and rank advancement, and lead robotics and programming workshops for merit badge completion.

skills

Programming
Python, C++, Java, JavaScript and TypeScript, SQL, Cypher, MATLAB, Bash, HTML and CSS
AI and ML
PyTorch, XGBoost, LightGBM, scikit-learn, Stable-Baselines3 PPO, MLflow, LLM integration, embeddings and semantic search, Model Context Protocol server design, mechanistic interpretability
Knowledge graphs and data
Neo4j, Cypher, entity resolution, DuckDB, pandas, data pipelines, multi-format ingestion across XML, JSON, JSONL, CEF, log and CSV
Backend and web
FastAPI, REST APIs, SQLAlchemy, Node.js, React, Vite, Tailwind, Astro, Three.js
Cloud and DevOps
AWS across S3, CloudFront, API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, Cognito and Secrets Manager, Cloudflare Pages and Workers, Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, Git, Linux
Robotics and embedded
ROS 2, Nav2, MuJoCo, Raspberry Pi, Teensy, ESP32, Arduino, servo control, IMUs, CAN, VEX in C++, 3D printing, CAD
Graphics
Vulkan 1.3, CMake, ECS architecture, procedural generation
Certifications
USG Makerspace Safety Certification. Pursuing CompTIA Security+, AWS Cloud Practitioner, APMP Foundation

honors

  • VEX Robotics World Championship Science Division Champion and Elite Eight finalist, 2021
  • VEX Robotics Maryland State Champion, 2021 and 2022
  • Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America, 2021
  • Maryland VRC event champion and Skills Champion, November 2021

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