Luca Macadar

Experience

Software Engineering Intern

Splunk

Jun 2025 – Sep 2025

Cut setup time 350% via Golang CLI + caching

Reduced API latency 5.5x with DB caching

Golang

API Optimization

Caching

Software Engineering Assistant - Simulated Annealing Network Aligner

UC Irvine

Jan 2025 - Ongoing

Cut runtime 40%+ via C++ parallelization

Ensured correctness with CI regression suite

C++

Parallelization

CI/CD

Algorithm Optimization

Teaching Assistant & Learning Assistant

UC Irvine, Bellevue College

Mar 2023 - Ongoing

Taught 1,500+ students across 20+ CS courses

Lectured and authored data structures materials

C++

Java

Data Structures

Algorithms

Teaching

Mentoring

Projects

Featured Projects

Personal Website

Full Stack Development

2024

Full Stack Development

Built RAG chatbot + email + analytics end-to-end

Shipped serverless stack on AWS (DDB, API GW, Lambda)

NextJS

AWS

DynamoDB

Bedrock

Lambdas

API Gateway

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Checkers AI

Artificial Intelligence

2024

Artificial Intelligence

Boosted engine performance 2.15x via core refactor

Scaled MCTS/NN evals on EC2 to accelerate testing

C++

Makefiles

AWS EC2

Monte Carlo

Neural Networks

Other Projects

FinKASK

Machine Learning

2024

Built backend pipelines to clean and fine-tune datasets for stock prediction models using NLP techniques.

NLP

Python

PyTorch

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