Luis Tovar
Dean S Team Member at Virginia Tech College of Engineering
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuis Tovar is a Virginia Tech mechanical engineering student and Dean’s Team member with 11 years of work experience blending hands-on engineering, leadership, and community engagement. He has practical HVAC and building systems design experience from an internship supporting projects for clients like NIH and NIST, and produces Revit models and AutoCAD construction documents while validating installations on site. At campus he’s led SHPE as president and coordinated a national-convention program that turned conference prep into measurable interview outcomes, demonstrating an ability to scale logistics and professional development for peers. He also contributes front-end fixes to the open-source OSF.io project, improving markdown rendering and UI styles—an unexpected cross-disciplinary thread that complements his technical drafting skills. Bilingual customer-facing roles and mentoring work round out a profile focused on learning, impact, and practical problem-solving.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at Virginia TechDanville Community CollegeTunstall High SchoolNorthern Virginia Community CollegeVirginia Western Community College
Spanish, French
Github Skills (8)
css10
markdown10
javascript10
markdown-it10
front-end-development10
html8
responsive-design6
django4
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
CenterForOpenScience/osf.io
May 2016 - May 2016
Facilitating Open Science
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 4 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Luis focused primarily on front-end development tasks within the OSF.io repository. Their commits involved fixing text wrapping issues, improving the display of markdown content on both wiki and project pages, and adjusting the rendering of the wiki view. They also updated the display of project page elements and resolved a bug related to displaying unrendered markdown. Additionally, there were a number of style fixes within the CSS, as well as some minor code adjustments.
pythonsciencedjango-rest-frameworkdjangojavascript
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