Cristina Villarroel
Software Engineer at Visa
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCristina Villarroel is a software engineer with nine years of professional experience and five years focused on full-stack development, currently building systems at Visa in Miami. She combines strong Java expertise (self-styled "Java Queen") with practical back-end and front-end skills, having delivered containerized web apps, search APIs, and ML-enabled features using technologies like Python, Flask, Vue, Docker, TF-IDF and Word2Vec. Her background includes research-driven projects—developing an ASL gesture recognition and VR teaching system that achieved 80% detection accuracy—and a proven track record of improving developer productivity and student outcomes. Comfortable in both product and research settings, she brings a hands-on, metrics-oriented approach to solving user-facing and internal tooling problems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (A.A.), Computer Science, Associate of Arts (A.A.), Computer Science at Miami Dade CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Florida International University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (10)
spring-mvc9
j2ee9
spring-boot8
java8
bootstrap8
admin8
spring7
online-store7
mvc7
shopping-cart6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
HerCodingStory/E-Commerce-Store-SoftwareEngineeringProject
May 2018 - Aug 2018
This a Online store for purchasing books made using Spring MVC, Bootstrap, H2, Java, etc. In this store as a user you can view and navigate the website, as a customer you can view and buy books, and as an admin you can modify products and manage customers info.
Contributions:76 commits, 8 PRs, 66 pushes in 2 months
spring-bootonline-storej2eeadmincustomers
CristyGit/SeniorProject-EYES
Oct 2019 - Nov 2021
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
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