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Andy Nilson

Andy Nilson

BS Computer Science UC San Diego '27
Mountain View, California, US
andy@andynilson.com
http://andynilson.com
English, Chinese

Background

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Organizer/Event Partner, Norcal Vex Robotics

    Aug, 2024 - Present

    Organize and run the Norcal State Championship competitions, Norcal Signature Events, and other regional competitions.

    • Leadership

    • Event Management

    • Logistics

  • Co-founder/CEO, Roboters

    Aug, 2024 - Aug, 20251 year

    Founded and scaled a VEX V5RC robotics organization from 2 to 50+ members across multiple teams. Directed initiatives to develop not only technical expertise in robotics but also industry-relevant skills including project management, teamwork, and leadership.

    • Founder

    • Leadership

    • Organization Building

  • Paid Assistant Coach, InoBotics

    Jun, 2023 - Apr, 202410 months

    Teaching middle school and high school students how to create and debug complex programming solutions to accomplish the desired game strategy. Also during the season acted as a coach to the teams.

    • C++

    • RobotC

    • Debugging

    • GitHub

    • Game strategy

  • Part-time Software Engineer, Turing

    Aug, 2021 - Dec, 20221 year 4 months

    At Turing, we would search for high quality, low cost programmers to complete software development contracts for tech companies. To do this, we created coding problems to give to the candidates and used AI to evaluate their level of programming knowledge.

    I personally created a tool in Python to quickly check if a candidate's programming test solutions were plagiarized. I then created a more complex system to connect with 3rd party plagiarism detection API through HTTP calls using Python and HTTP requests.

    I also wrote multiple alternate solutions in Java and Python to each of the test problems given to candidates.

    • Python

    • Java

    • HTTP Requests

    • 3rd Party APIs

  • Webmaster, Troop 103

    Jan, 2018 - Dec, 20224 years 11 months

    Maintained the website for Troop103. Created tool to auto-generate signup sheets for outings/activities using Apps Script. Maintained the troop website and gave regular updates with HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript.

    • Apps Script

    • HTML5

    • JavaScript

    • CSS

Skills

Skills

  • Programming Languages

    Java

    HTML

    CSS

    Javascript

    Python

    Apps Script

    C++

    RobotC

Education

Education

  • Computer Science, College, UC San Diego

    Sep, 2025 - Jun, 2027

  • AS Computer Science & AS Mathematics (Magna Cum Laude), College, DeAnza College

    Jun, 2023 - Jan, 2025

  • General Studies (National Honor Society), High School, Saint Francis High School

    Sep, 2019 - Jun, 2023

Awards

Awards

  • Eagle Scout , Troop 103

    Awarded on: Sep 01, 2021

  • National Honor Society , Saint Francis High School

    Awarded on: Sep 01, 2021

  • The Vex Robotics World Championship , Vex Robotics

    Awarded on: May 01, 2023

    The Think Programming Award
    1st place in division(2x)

    The Vex Robotics Worlds Championship is the largest robotics competition in the world.

  • Vex Robotics Signature Events , Vex Robotics

    Awarded on: May 01, 2023

    Tournament Champion and Amaze Award at the Google Signature Event
    Create Award at the Mecha Mayhem Signature Event

    Vex Robotics Signature Events are some of the most competitive events in Vex Robotics, giving winners qualification to the world championship.

  • The California State Championsip Winner 6x , Vex Robotics

    Awarded on: May 01, 2023

    Also competed in tournaments around the US in LA, Texas, Tennessee, and Kentucky.

Volunteer Work

Volunteer Work

  • Co-organizer, Silicon Valley GDG

    Jan, 2023 - Present

    The Silicon Valley Google Developer Group is a meetup with over 19,000 members that does deep technical presentations on Google Technologies and APIs. The group meets monthly and is free to the public.

    I personally helped organize meetings and find speakers.

    • Found speakers

    • Organize meetings

  • Co-organizer, Vex Girl Powered Workshop

    Jan, 2022 - Present

    Helped share knowledge and introduce girls to STEM through Vex Robotics.

    • Continue to help, but so far have helped share knowledge with over 1600 girls.

  • Eagle Project Organizer, St. Simon Little Saints Prechool

    Jan, 2019 - Jan, 2021

    Lead scouts of my troop in creating miniature furniture pieces for the Saint Simon Little Saints Preschool. Started by creating a CAD model of the pieces of my project using Fusion360. 3D printed a prototype. Redesigned based on the look of the 3D printed model and created a prototype out of pine wood. Tested the prototype with brothers. Created the final project out of oak wood. Presented the project to my beneficiary.

    • Used Fusion 360 to create CAD model

    • Created schedule for buidling.

    • Checked quality of scouts work.

    • Tracked progress along schedule.

    • Made modifications to schedule as needed.

    • Presented the completed pieces to the preschoolers.

  • Volunteer Teacher, O'Reilly: OSCON Kids Day 2015 - Portland, Oregon

    Jul, 2015 - Jul, 2015

    Gave a workshop called Web Components 4 Kids Beginner.

    • Taught about 50 kids how to make their first website using HTML5, CSS, and Javascript.

    • Also taught them how to enhance the visual elements by using web components.

  • Volunteer Teacher, Oracle: JavaOne for Kids

    Sep, 2015 - Sep, 2015

    Gave a workshop called Building a website with web components.

    • Taught about 50 kids how to make their first website using HTML5, CSS, and Javascript.

    • Also taught how to enhance the visual elements by using web components.

  • Volunteer Teacher, O'Reilly: OSCON Kids Day 2016 - Austin, Texas

    May, 2016 - May, 2016

    Gave a workshop called Web Components 4 Kids Intermediate.

    • Taught about 50 kids how to make their first website using HTML5, CSS, and Javascript.

    • Also taught how to enhance the visual elements by using web components.

Interests

Interests

  • Programming and engineering

    Web DevelopmentMachine LearningSimulationsData ScienceCAD

  • Finance

    Stock MarketOptionsCrypto

  • Game Theory

    PokerBlackjack

  • Outdoors

    BikingCampingWoodworking