“We have two ears and one mouth so we can listen twice as much as we speak.” - Epictetus

Contact 🔗

Hello, please contact me through any of the following services:

• email: daestrada@pm.me
• Mastodon: @diegoest@mstdn.social
• Matrix: @daestrada:matrix.org

Presence 🔗

• Student at the Department of Computer Science at Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras
• Git: https://sr.ht/~diego-est/
• ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6779-8166
• Association for Computing Machinery member since June 2024
• LinkedIn: in/diego-alejandro-estrada-rivera/
• Twitter: @SunglYou
• Instagram: @dart.post

Experience 🔗

Student Researcher (June 2024 - July 2024) 🔗

Villanova Puerto Rico Research Retreat @ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania US 🔗

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Teacher’s Assistant (August 2023 - Ongoing) 🔗

Discrete Mathematics @ Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras 🔗

Organized weekly studying sessions for the discrete mathematics students. The discrete mathematics course is infamously known for being the hardest undergraduate course.

• Highest concentration of students passing occurred during my first term

Teacher’s Assistant (July 2023 - August 2023) 🔗

Pre-calculus - “Inmersión Subgraduada” @ Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras 🔗

Assisted a professor during an advanced placement summer pre-calculus course. During this, I dedicated half of the day to covering pre-calculus topics and assisting students with their homework.

• 70 students participated

Teacher (June 2023 - July 2023) 🔗

Code Your Music Camp - Remezcla @ Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras 🔗

Taught a variety of students ranging from middle school through high school how to make music using computer science techniques.

• 50+ students participated
• All succesfully put into work good programming practices taught at the camp
• All of them composed several songs they were proud of
• Perfect attendance throughout the entire camp
• Several students are now eager to continue studying computer science

Publications 🔗

Achievements 🔗

• First place at UPRB Competencias Interuniversitarias de Programación - May 2024
  • Won 1st place along with a peer in an intercollegiate programming contest against 22 other teams.
• Buildner Emotional Architecture Award
  • Designed a museum capable of reflecting intense opposing emotions, along with two other peers.
• Buildner Magazine Showcase
  • Our museum design was showcased in the 1st edition of the Buildner Magazine.
• 50 miles - One Day
  • Completed a 50 mile trek in the span of 24 hours.

Skills 🔗

• Avid jazz drum player
• Digital & analogue photographer (IG: @dart.post)
• Drawing and Japanese calligraphy

Languages 🔗

• English
  • completely fluent
• Spanish
  • completely fluent
• Japanese
  • in progress
• French
  • in progress

Programming languages 🔗

• Systems languages:
  • C
  • C++
  • Rust
  • Hare
• Functional Languages:
  • Haskell
  • APL
  • J
  • BQN
• Others
  • Python
    • w/ SageMath library extensions

Projects 🔗

Pro-Pro Organizer 🔗

Pro-Pro (short for Programming Proficiency) is a collective of students at the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras who strive towards improving their programming skills through a multitude of different activities. Some of those activities are the following:

• Monthly programming contests
• Programming talks and debates
• Project showcases
• Game jams

Fractal Escape Time Renderer 🔗

You can find a blog post about all of this at:

• Mandelbrot Research Repo
• Mandelbrot Parallelized