Projects

Selected work

Summer Assessment Program

147 students · 86% completion

Scheduled and ran testing for 147 students across four home languages, then wrote the placement report used to set next year's cohorts.

Google SheetsReportingOperations

WNBA Game Outcome Prediction

69% honest re-test · leak found and fixed

Built a model to predict WNBA winners, then re-tested it: found a data leak, rebuilt it on pre-game data only, and compared it with simple baselines.

Pythonpandasscikit-learnJupyter

Visualizing 140 Years of Census Data

140 years of Census data

Mapped demographic change in the U.S. from 1870 to 2010, including the Great Migration, using R.

Rtidyverseggplot2

Comparing 10 Classifiers

10 models · 98% accuracy

Benchmarked ten models on the Wisconsin breast cancer dataset by precision, recall, F1 and ROC-AUC. Logistic regression reached 98% accuracy.

Pythonscikit-learnXGBoost

Network Anomaly Detection

19,528 traffic samples

Trained a deep autoencoder on 19,528 network traffic samples to flag unusual traffic.

PythonTensorFlowKeras

Experience

Summer 2026

Summer Compliance & Assessment Administrator

Making Waves Academy. Ran scheduling, family outreach and reporting for a 147-student assessment program.

Aug 2024 – now

5th Grade Teacher

Making Waves Academy. Built Google Sheets trackers and unit dashboards, managed compliance reporting for a $2.5M program budget, and presented data to school leadership.

Jan – Jun 2023

Senior Developer, UC Davis CodeLab

Led a team of 4 through a 15-week redesign of a React.js course-planning app.

Jan – Jun 2022

Software Developer, UC Davis Mathematics

Built a Google Sheets add-on that replaced Excel for simulation work in math courses.

Skills

Data & analysis

Google Sheets / Excel (FILTER, SORT, LET, IFERROR), Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn), R (tidyverse, ggplot2), SQL, regression, Monte Carlo simulation

Operations

Program coordination, compliance reporting, roster and outreach tracking, deadline-driven work across departments, multilingual family communication

Reporting

Dashboards, summary reports, presentations for leadership, Matplotlib, Seaborn, ggplot2

Education

B.S. Applied Mathematics, UC Davis

M.A. Teaching, Secondary Mathematics, Western Governors University

Contact

melavinabeltran@gmail.com

B.S. Applied Mathematics, UC DavisBased in the Bay Area · Open to remote