Summary
Valencia Starr is a software engineer and educator with a decade of experience building and shipping desktop, mobile, and web applications across Java, JavaScript, Python, PHP, and cloud platforms like AWS and GCP. She holds BS degrees in Mathematics (Union College) and Computer Science (Lehman College) with departmental honors and a 3.8 GPA, and parlayed academic success into internships and consulting work that produced production systems used by hundreds to thousands of users. Valencia has taught full-stack development at Flatiron School and CUNY, created curricula and deployed teaching apps (including a grade management system and course projects), and co-founded the NSBE chapter at Lehman, highlighting her blend of technical and community leadership. As a developer she has delivered real-world impact—designing an Android app for over 1,000 farmers to track crop data and building an employment reimbursement system used by hundreds of employees. Comfortable from UI to backend and deployment, she also regularly mentors students through debugging, system design, and Git workflows. Her background in mathematics informs a pragmatic, data-minded approach to engineering and teaching.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Lehman College
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics at Union College
Spanish