Computer Science · UMass Amherst

Christian Diaz

Software engineering across embedded systems, automation, computer vision, and full-stack web.

Amherst, MA · B.S. Computer Science, May 2027

Embedded Systems Intern at Cytrence
Freelance Full-Stack Developer
Software Developer at BUILD UMass

Email GitHub ↗LinkedIn ↗Résumé ↓

Experience

Professional & technical

Jun 2026 — Aug 2026

Burlington, MA

Cytrence

Embedded Systems Intern

Built Python QA automation for keyboard, mouse, USB, and video validation through a hardware-control SDK.
Developed OpenCV calibration logic and Windows/Linux validation and recovery workflows.
Developed BIOS/UEFI automation using visual analysis, semantic retrieval, local Gemma reasoning, deterministic routing, and state verification.

2024 — Present

Naples, FL

Pelican Point East

Freelance Full-Stack Developer

Independently designed, built, deployed, and maintain a production resident portal for a condominium association.
Own authentication, role-based administration, document workflows, Firebase data, responsive UI, and ongoing client updates.

Aug 2025 — Jan 2026

Amherst, MA

Learning Resource Center, UMass Amherst

Supplemental Instruction Leader — CICS 110

Led two weekly programming sessions and created review material and debugging exercises for a course serving 200+ students per semester.

Sep 2024 — Present

Amherst, MA

BUILD UMass

Software Developer

Developed backend search for New England First Amendment Coalition resources.
Led BUILD's migration from legacy JavaScript/HTML to Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS and built internal outreach tooling.

Selected work

Projects

Pelican Point East

Freelance full-stack development · Naples, FL

Production resident and admin portal for a condominium association.

Next.js · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS · Firebase

Live ↗Code ↗

BUILD UMass

Website migration + internal tooling

Modernized the organization website and built tooling for client discovery and outreach.

Next.js · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS

Live ↗Code ↗

NEFAC Search

Legal-document search

Backend search functionality designed to improve access to First Amendment legal resources.

Backend · Search · AI/ML

Technical skills

Languages

Python · TypeScript · JavaScript · Java · C · HTML/CSS

Development

Next.js · React · Node.js · FastAPI · Tailwind CSS · Git · Docker

Vision / ML / Platforms

OpenCV · Hugging Face · sentence-transformers · Gemma · Pandas · Linux · Firebase · AWS