Arlene Perez
School Board President at NBCUniversal Media, LLC
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolArlene Perez is a software developer and education leader with nine years of experience bridging classroom impact and product engineering, currently building products at NBCUniversal while serving as School Board President in El Rancho Unified. A first-generation college graduate and former Teach For America bilingual math teacher, she founded robotics programs and boosted student achievement while advocating for Latino representation in STEM. Trained as a full-stack developer (Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, MySQL/Postgres, CSS/HTML) through Dev Bootcamp and a Facebook F8 scholarship, she brings classroom-driven empathy to user-focused engineering. Her background in curriculum design and education research informs pragmatic data-driven decisions in both code and policy. Notably, she led community-recognized robotics initiatives featured by the White House Initiative for Educational Excellence for Hispanics and Univision, underscoring her ability to scale local programs into broader awareness. She combines technical fluency with a mission to create technology that meaningfully expands opportunities for underserved students.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Developer Computer Engineering, Full Stack Web Developer Computer Engineering at Dev BootcampB.A. Political Science and Philosophy, B.A. Political Science and Philosophy at UC Santa Barbara7-12 Secondary Mathematics Certification Mathematics, 7-12 Secondary Mathematics Certification Mathematics at The New Teacher Project
English, Spanish
Github Skills (4)
probot10
discord-bot9
discord9
documentation5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
arlene-perez/website
Oct 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
arlene-perez/OCR
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:8 PRs, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 4 days
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