Chavez Western Wear · University of California, Santa Cruz
Software engineer and recent UC Santa Cruz CS graduate (B.S. with Honors, 2026) who builds tools that run real business operations. • Built and deployed an AI-powered receipt-processing tool (FastAPI, Ollama/Qwen2.5-VL) that handles ~200 receipts a day • Digitized a paper customer ledger into a searchable, paginated app (FastAPI, SQLite, vanilla JavaScript), now running on-site • Designed both tools for a family-owned check-cashing business, where staff use them day to day • Built ChariWork, a full-stack round-up donation app (React, Node.js, PostgreSQL), as part of a 4-person team • Focused on local LLM integration, prompt engineering, and schema-validated output Tech: Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, C/C++, Java | React, Node.js, Express, FastAPI | PostgreSQL, SQLite | Ollama Open to software engineering roles. Feel free to message me.