Aaron James Marasigan Aben
Derwood, US
aaron.jm.aben@gmail.com
(240) 310-6359

Education


University of Maryland, College Park
August 2020
 — 
May 2024
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
  • Quality Enhancement Systems and Teams (QUEST) Consulting Honors Program
  • Computer and Network Security, Advanced Data Structures, Android App Development

Experience


Instructor
June 2025
 — 
August 2025
The Patuxent Partnership

Developed and taught a curriculum for programming, design principles, and basic electronics to high school students

  • Collaborated with other instructors to produce presentations, demonstrations, and templates
  • Guided students in using CAD software and 3D printers

Projects


Improving Application Management at Thales Defense & Security
September 2023
 — 
December 2023
  • Identified gaps in data collection and lack of adequate metrics on 7000+ software applications through stakeholder interviews, employee correspondence, and process flow analysis
  • Established documentation and streamlined data collection to standardize and expedite TDSI’s software intake and software decommissioning processes
  • Reduced turnaround time for application approval by 50% and reduced redundant software in inventory by over 1000 listed applications
Analysis of BitGo, Inc.’s Support Ticket Management System
September 2022
 — 
December 2022

Collaborated with a student team to recommend support ticket groupings for improving average resolution time for BitGo’s support tickets

  • Conducted data cleaning, modeling, and visualization with Python (Pandas, seaborn)
  • Segmented BitGo’s past qualitative and quantitative ticket data sets (5000+ tickets) with Python implementations of K-means after principal component analysis
Terrapin Works Employee Scheduling Process
April 2022
 — 
May 2022
  • Analyzed Terrapin Works’s employee scheduling system by examining existing documentation and conducting employee interviews of four main positions in their organization hierarchy
  • Increased accuracy and time efficiency of the employee scheduling process by quantifying employee preferences and recommending structural modifications to employee databases

Volunteer


Research Intern
July 2019
 — 
December 2019
George Washington University, Energy Efficiency Lab

Investigated and characterized thermal performances of 3 novel material mixtures to optimize them for insulation applications

    Certificates


    CompTIA Security+ CE
    February 2025
    Candidate Number: COMP001022740638

    Skills


    Programming Languages:
    Java, Python (Pandas), C, Kotlin (Android Dev), Ruby, JavaScript
    Data Analysis Tools:
    MATlab, Pandas/scikitlearn/seaborn Python libraries, Microsoft Excel, MySQL
    CAD:
    Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Fusion 360
    Misc.:
    Linux, Git + GitHub