Aaron James Marasigan Aben
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
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
Certificates
CompTIA Security+ CE
February 2025
Candidate Number: COMP001022740638
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
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