Aleika Chery

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Skilled in:

  • Python
  • C++
  • HTML, CSS, JS, ReactJS
  • White Hat Hacking

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A brief timeline of my career development.

2024

Software Engineering Fellow

Headstarter

July 2024 - Present

Participant in a1 7-week software engineering fellowship which consists of building 5 AI projects, 5 weekend hackathons, 1 final project with 1000+ users, interview prep, resume reviews and feedback from real software engineers.

2024

Cybersecurity Research Assistant

CUNY: City College

June 2024 - Present

Conduct experiments that analyze the behavior of ransomware in a system using Povlsomware, an attacker virtual machine, and victim virtual machine.

2023

Web Development Teaching Assistant

Giant Machines

August 2023

● Assisted two teachers in teaching 40-50 high school students HTML, CSS, JS, and Bootstrap.

● Helped students one on one and in groups of 2-6 students with classwork and projects.

2023

Cybersecurity Teaching Assistant

CodePath

January 2023 - May 2023

● Guided students through hands-on labs on malware detection, DNS exploits, steganography and more.

● Facilitated breakout rooms and assist students with assignments during weekly class sessions.

2023

Markets Post Trade Intern

Barclays Bank

January 2023

Collaborated with a team of five interns on a three-week project to analyze trading exceptions and create data visualizations for banking clients using Kibana and Elasticsearch.

2022

Club President

Girls Who Code Club at City College

August 2022 - August 2024

● Orchestrate the delegation of tasks and responsibilities among club executives.

● Assist in organizing and overseeing club events, fostering teamwork and engagement among members.

Projects
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Worked with a team of 5 to design a website that allows users to exchange skills and learn from each other. Includes user profile and messages features.

ReactJS NodeJS MongoDB Firebase

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Worked on a team of two to perform sentiment analysis and create data visualization for Amazon product reviews.

Python RainforestAPI TextBlob nltk

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Led a team of three to design a website that features hairstyle and hair product reccomendations for African Americans.

ReactJS Firebase RainforestAPI Bootstrap

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Designed a website that provides strategies for winning monopoly and resources for learning how to play.

HTML CSS JS Bootstrap

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Highlight Event of July

I visited Netflix's NYC Headquarters to attend a Women in Tech Panel held by Rewriting the Code x CodePath for over 50 women.

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