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Open to Summer 2026 internships

Hi, I'm Brian 👋Brian Pineda

I'm a first-generation Computer Science + Electrical Engineering student at Rutgers who likes building things that actually ship — full-stack products, data pipelines, and the LLM systems on top of them. I drive most of my work with an AI-native workflow (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor), and I'm just as curious about the transistors underneath as the model-routing layer on top.

New Brunswick, NJ·Currently building LLM platforms & data pipelines with an AI-native workflow
BP
GPA
3.8 / 4.0
Status
Dean's List
Grad
May 2029
Focus
AI / ML · Full-stack
About

A student who ships real things.

I'm studying Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Rutgers because I want the whole picture — from the transistors that make computation possible up through the model-routing layer that's reshaping how software gets built.

Most of my recent work is production-grade products built with AI tooling — Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor as primary collaborators, with CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md files driving the context. Shipped LLM platforms, end-to-end data pipelines, and real student-org software that people actually use.

I'm a first-generation student in tech, and I serve as PR Chair at MASA Rutgers — so I'm as comfortable working with stakeholders and a community as I am in the IDE. Open to Summer 2026 SWE and AI/ML internships, especially anywhere LLM systems or the hardware-software boundary is the interesting problem.

At a glance
Major
CS + EE
School
Rutgers University
Location
New Brunswick, NJ
Graduation
May 2029
Open to
Summer 2026 internships
Grab my résumé
One-page PDF
Experience

Where I've been.

Leadership
Mar 2026 — Present

PR Chair

Mexican American Student Association (MASA) · Rutgers

  • Own communications and public-facing software for the organization.
  • Built and maintain the MASA student web app used by the membership.
  • Work directly with stakeholders to drive 10+ production releases.
Education
2025 — 2029 (expected)

B.S. Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Rutgers University — New Brunswick

  • GPA 3.8 / 4.0 · Dean's List.
  • Studying the full pipeline — from silicon up to the model-routing layer.
  • Coursework across data structures, AI, computer architecture & systems.
Projects

Things I've shipped.

LLM Routing Platform

GenCost

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AI Tinkerers × ElevenLabs Hackathon · NYC · Apr 2026

Production LLM platform with a smart router that picks the optimal model per request across 6 providers (OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Grok, ElevenLabs, fal.ai, Google) for real-time cost and quality optimization. 20+ FastAPI endpoints behind a Next.js dashboard with live cost tickers, charts, and interactive panels. Built on a 4-person team with Claude Code + CLAUDE.md context files.

Next.jsReactFastAPIPostgreSQLClaude
Data Pipeline

PC Hardware Price Predictor

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Personal project · Jan 2026 → Present

5-stage Python pipeline turning 9,497 raw scraped records into a normalized SQLite database — 3 tables, 75,000+ rows. Cross-source matching for 2,106 components using composite-key logic with validation at every stage. Driven end-to-end through Claude Code with structured context files.

PythonSQLSQLitePandasClaude Code
Student Org Web App

MASA Rutgers Website

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Mar 2026 → Present · In production

Student-facing web app for the Mexican American Student Association at Rutgers. Real-time forum, event calendar, and gallery deployed via GitHub Pages and used by the org's membership. 10+ production deployments driven by stakeholder feedback.

JavaScriptFirebaseFirestoreHTML/CSS
Mobile · OOP

Android Photos App

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Nov → Dec 2025

Photo-management app ported from a JavaFX desktop project. 4 OOP model classes restructured with clean separation of concerns, 6 user-facing features, tested across 3+ emulator configs with hand-written Activities and unit tests.

JavaAndroid Studio
Skills

Tools I reach for.

AI-Native Workflow
  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Cursor
  • Gemini CLI
  • Prompt Engineering
  • LLM APIs
Front End
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • shadcn
Back End
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Node.js
  • REST
  • WebSocket
  • JWT
Data
  • SQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • SQLite
  • Firebase
  • Firestore
  • Pandas
Languages
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Java
  • C
  • SQL
Cloud & Tools
  • AWS
  • Vercel
  • Supabase
  • Git
  • Linux
  • Android Studio
Résumé

The one-pager.

resume.pdf

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Contact

Let's build something.

Email is the fastest way to reach me — I read every message and reply within a day or two, usually faster if it's about an internship, hackathon, or an interesting LLM problem.