About
Hi, I’m Karina! I’m an undergraduate student @ UC San Diego.
Education
B.S. Data Science | The University of California, San Diego
Experience
Instructional Assistant @ Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego
- Data Science Tutor for DSC 20 (Programming and Data Structures for Data Science).
Corporate VC & Business Analytics Extern @ HP Tech Ventures
- Researched relevant pre-seed stage startups for deal sourcing and evaluation. Profiled startup companies, learned what VCs look for, and participated in investing in the next generation of technology.
User Experience Intern @ UCI Gavin Herbert Eye Institute
- Worked under Dr. Matthew Wade & collected data in both surgical and postoperative cataract appointments to determine how a better overall patient experience could be designed.
Projects
CaliResources Database
- Worked alongside team of interns to build a database of resources during the COVID-19 pandemic for individuals in need of assistance.
- Through our website, anyone can easily access a database of over 200 resources about food, housing, utilities, and other aid speci c to each county in California.
- Skills include Data Analytics, Data Engineering, Enterprise Technology, Software Engineering.
- Implemented SQL statements to create database tables, implementing lters, conditional statements, views, triggers, store procedures and functions for data cleaning, transforming, and manipulation.
- Implemented automated pipelines to improve ETL processes and increase data loading performance.