Alvin Lin
Computer Science Curriculum Designer and Academic Coach at Freelance
Full Stack Web Developer
I'm Alvin, a full stack web developer who is passionate about education. I have always tried to find ways to make math and science education exciting and relevant to students, and I believe that the web technologies we have today allow for many creative ways to accomplish this goal. My plan is to continue to create tools and applications that will greatly enhance the learning experience for both students and teachers in the classroom.
Freelance
• Created a 12-week, project-based, introductory programming course for the client, a middle school teacher, to teach remotely
• Designed 9 lessons, each with project instructions, code challenges, grading rubric, sample completed project, and supporting materials
• Met weekly with the client to plan and review the delivery of each lesson and to work through the challenges of remote instruction
Computer Science Curriculum Designer and Academic Coach
San José Unified School District
https://www.linkedin.com/company/san-jose-unified-school-district
• Taught 7th grade and 8th grade students
• Collaborated with the math department on a year-long initiative to improve the school’s average math scores for at-risk populations on the Smarter Balanced assessment
San Jose
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Middle School Teacher
Sequoia Academy
• Led weekly classes with 4 to 12 students per class to supplement their school classes
• Empowered students to learn and practice study skills and to hold themselves accountable for their learning and school grades
• Taught elementary and middle school math, algebra, geometry, calculus, English, biology, chemistry, SAT test prep, ACT test prep, and AMC 8, 10, 12 math competitions
• Designed classwork, homework, and formative assessments for each of the classes taught
• Wrote over 900 English grammar exercises for formative assessment
• Designed and maintained a SQLite database containing more than 3,700 problems to generate individualized practice problems based on student performance
• Wrote PHP scripts to generate LaTeX worksheets with answer keys for math and chemistry students
Palo Alto
Academic Tutor
Full Stack Web Development
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Lambda School
https://www.linkedin.com/school/bloominstituteoftechnology/
Master of Arts - MA
Teaching
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Santa Clara University
https://www.linkedin.com/school/santa-clara-university/
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Cognitive Science
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University of California, Berkeley
https://www.linkedin.com/school/uc-berkeley/
Intro to Programming using Scratch (Middle school level)
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Collaborated with an all-remote team of 2 UX designers and 3 other full stack developers over a period of 8 weeks
Led twice-weekly meetings with the stakeholder, an English teacher from Bahrain
Jumpstarted the stakeholder’s rebranding campaign by refactoring legacy React code and creating a mobile-responsive marketing page
Redesigned user authentication and authorization process using JSON web tokens
Wrote scripts in PHP and Node to categorize and track 624 flagged CodeClimate issues to help the team prioritize development

Tech stack: HTML/CSS, Sass, React, Node, Express
Garden of Knowledge
https://github.com/Labs22-GardenOfKnowledge/garden-of-knowledge-labs22-fe
Collaborated with an all-remote team of 2 React developers and a UX designer to plan and build the application in 5 days
Built the server as the sole backend developer
Designed routes for authentication, authorization, and middleware
Wrote and passed 61 unit tests 
Extensively documented all the server-side routes and possible status codes

Tech stack: Node, Express
Sleep Tracker
https://github.com/buildweek-sleep-tracker/back-end
* Worked with an all-remote team of four web developers to build an application in one week
* Created React application with client-side authentication and routing
* Added CSS styling to React components created by team members
* Mentored least-experienced team member on React principles

Tech stack: React, HTML, CSS
Anywhere Fitness
https://github.com/build-anywhere-fitness-5/front-end
Lambda School
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Full-Stack Web Development + Technical Interviewing
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