About Ivan

I am a BA/MS computer science student at UC Santa Cruz focused on systems and software engineering. I like work that sits close to the machinery: distributed systems, storage, data pipelines, reliability, performance, and the software design choices that make complex systems understandable.

My recent work includes SlugMeter, a live parking citation tracker for Santa Cruz, plus related versions for Spokane and UCSC. I am incoming at IBM as a SWE intern, where I want to keep building toward systems-heavy software roles with real production constraints.

I am especially interested in distributed systems, databases, storage systems, reliability, performance, and applied AI systems. I still care about usable products, but I want my specialization to be systems depth first.