Carson J. Bleich

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HackCU Platform

Node.jsAWSPostgreSQLCI/CD

Production backend infrastructure for a 300+ participant annual hackathon.

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NSF iSAT AI Tooling

PythonMLPostgreSQLREST API

AI engineering tooling for classroom interaction analysis at the National Science Foundation.

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Distributed Sentiment Analysis Pipeline

PythonNLPML

Modular NLP backend pipeline for large-scale text classification, achieving 89% test accuracy.

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Polymorphia Adventure Game

JavaScalaOOPDesign Patterns

Modular backend game engine built around command and strategy design patterns in Java and Scala.

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HackCU

Organizer & Competitor · University of Colorado Boulder

HackCU is Colorado's largest university hackathon, drawing 300+ students each year for a 24-hour build sprint. As both an organizer and competitor, I've spent hundreds of hours building the platforms that run the event — registration systems, sponsor dashboards, real-time check-in — and competing in the hackathon itself. It's where I learned that fast, rough-and-ready engineering under pressure is a skill of its own.

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Soccer

Competitive & Intramural · CU Boulder

I've played competitive soccer since middle school and continue playing recreationally and in intramural leagues at CU Boulder. The sport has shaped how I think about teamwork and pressure — when you're down a goal with ten minutes left, you figure out very quickly what coordination under stress actually looks like. It's where I go to reset when staring at a screen stops working.

Team SportCompetitiveIntramural

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Theta Chi Fraternity

Member · University of Colorado Boulder

I'm a member of Theta Chi at CU Boulder. Fraternity life has shaped how I think about leadership and community — organizing events, supporting brothers through academic and personal challenges, and being part of something bigger than any single person's goals. It's pushed me to be more intentional about showing up for people, not just projects.

LeadershipCommunityCU Boulder

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Software Engineer · CS @ CU Boulder, May 2026

I'm a computer science student at the University of Colorado Boulder who cares about building software that's fast, reliable, and actually useful to the people using it. My focus is backend engineering and systems — designing APIs that hold up under load, databases that stay consistent, and architectures that scale without drama.

Over the past few years I've turned that focus into real production work. As Tech Director at HackCU — Colorado's largest university hackathon — I architect and maintain the full-stack platform that serves 1,000+ attendees each year, owning everything from database schema design to CI/CD pipelines. On the research side, I work as an AI Engineer Intern at the National Science Foundation's iSAT program, where I built Python and Java REST APIs that process real-time classroom AI interaction data and feed instructor dashboards with live student engagement analytics.

I'm drawn to problems that sit at the intersection of systems and product — where what you build has to be correct and performant, but also has to make sense to the person on the other end. Whether that's optimizing a query for an event-night traffic spike or validating AI outputs for fairness in a live classroom tool, I want to own the work end-to-end.

Academically, I've earned Dean's List recognition three times and hold a 3.42 GPA. My coursework goes deep into the fundamentals — operating systems, compilers, algorithms, database systems, and distributed systems. I also won Best Use of Technology at CU's Sustainability Hackathon, a reminder that good engineering means nothing without a clear-eyed understanding of the problem you're actually solving.

Outside of work and class, I'm an organizer and competitor at HackCU, play competitive soccer, and am a member of Theta Chi fraternity. I grew up in Portland, OR, and I'm actively looking for software engineering internships and new grad roles for 2026. If you want to build something together — reach out.

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JavaPythonTypeScriptNode.jsReactFastAPIPostgreSQLREST APIsDockerAWSCI/CDGitHub Actions

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