// resume · desmond le

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Recent Computer Science graduate from UMass Boston with hands-on experience in Linux, systems monitoring, and technical troubleshooting. I also bring a background in customer-facing roles and leadership. I'm comfortable working in Linux, explaining technical ideas in plain language, and taking ownership until a problem is solved. Founder & President of Anhelo Salsa Club. Fluent in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese.

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Technical Projects

Systems Monitoring: Chimera Project · UMass Boston

2024 – 2025
  • Built and configured Grafana dashboards to visualize live system metrics from a remote Linux server, giving the team real-time visibility instead of guesswork.
  • Worked entirely over SSH in a remote Linux environment, using command-line tools to monitor system state and troubleshoot issues.
  • Researched how system and configuration settings get left exposed and where real vulnerabilities sit, documenting findings in a semester-long research paper.

Watchdog Timer: C & x86 Assembly · UMass Boston

2024
  • Built a watchdog timer that detects when a system hangs or misbehaves and automatically resets it, a core reliability concept.
  • Optimized performance-critical sections of C with x86 assembly, working close to the hardware on an embedded target.

Compiler Internals: j-- (Java) · UMass Boston

2026
  • Worked inside an existing compiler codebase (j--, a subset of Java), implementing additional language features across the lexing, parsing, and code-generation stages.
  • Navigated and extended an unfamiliar codebase to understand how each stage of a compiler fits together.

Reddit Mental Health Classifier: Python · UMass Boston

2024
  • Built a text classifier in Python with scikit-learn and NLTK, owning the full preprocessing pipeline: cleaning real Reddit data, stripping URLs and stopwords, and lemmatizing text.
  • Tuned model parameters to ~75% accuracy and connected it to a web front end for live predictions.

Personal Portfolio Website · cs.umb.edu/~dtle21

2026
  • Built, customized, and deployed a personal portfolio site to the UMass Boston CS server, pushing builds and updates over SSH and the command line.
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Skills & Languages

// systems & tooling

Linux / UNIXSSHCommand LineGitGitHubVimGrafanaGDBVMwareVS Code

// languages & data

PythonCC++Javax86 AssemblySQLHTML / CSS
Vietnamese
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English
// fluent
Spanish
// fluent
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Education

B.S. Computer Science · University of Massachusetts Boston

2021 – 2026
  • Relevant coursework: Software Engineering, Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Advanced Algorithms, Computer Architecture, Programming in C, Computer Security, Theory of Computation.

Study Abroad, Computer Science · UNAM, Mexico City

Spring 2025
  • Completed a full semester of CS coursework taught entirely in Spanish.
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Leadership & Experience

Founder & President · Anhelo Salsa Club, UMass Boston

2025 – 2026
  • Founded and grew a student organization from scratch, leading an executive board, delegating responsibilities, and building a succession plan so it runs after I graduate.
  • Organized a live-music event for ~80 attendees, coordinating vendors, volunteers, a live band, and multiple university departments end to end.

Shift Manager · McDonald's, Everett MA

2020 – 2021
  • Led shifts of 7 to 9 employees during high-volume periods, assigning roles to individual strengths and keeping operations organized under pressure.
  • Trained new hires and de-escalated difficult customers and crew conflicts in the moment.

Peer Facilitator · GROW Program, UMass Boston

Spring 2023
  • Led workshops for groups of 30 to 35 students, breaking down difficult topics into clear, followable steps.

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