Mateo Sanchez

Hi, I'm Mateo.

I am an ambitious high school senior with interdisciplinary interests in computer science, chemical engineering, and venture capital.

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Resume

About Me

I am a high school student Post Oak School.

I am interested in software development, entrepreneurship, and blockchain.

I am also deeply passionate about enviormental remidiation in the context of chemical engineering.

Doing research on nanomaterial catalysts and electro coagulation.

In my free time I enjoy soccer, playing piano, and reading.

Work Experience

Research Intern at Rice University, Catalysis and NanoMaterials Group

Summer Rising 11th Grade; 9 hours/week, 5 weeks

Investigated applications of materials science on a nano scale with a focus on catalysis.
Worked under the guidance of Rice University professors Dr. Micheal S. Wong, chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Dr. Kimberly Heck.
Shadowed Ph.D. students experimenting with nanomaterial catalysts.
Summarized and presented various scientific papers on Nanomaterial Catalysts.
Ran an experiment creating silicone microcapsules.
Completed the Rice chemical engineering lab safety course.

Research Intern at Southloop Ventures

11th Grade; 6 hours/week

Worked under the guidance of Zach Ellis CEO and managing director of Southloop
Contributed to deal memos and cap sheets for startups in numerous industries including media broadcasting, healthcare, and gaming.

Front End Engineer at Project NEWM

10th and 11th Grade; 3 hours/week

React.JS, Typescript, Redux, Material UI, Jest, React Testing Library, HTML, CSS

Programmed primarily with javascript (JS) using Typescript and ReactJS
Worked on the development of the NEWM Artist Portal, a web app that enables artists to mint their music as fractionalized NFTs and manage their content

Web Development Teacher at Code Ninjas

10th, 11th Grade; 2 hours/week

Developed a web development curriculum teaching middle and high school students HTML, CSS and Javascript.

Software Engineer Intern at Topl.co

Summer Rising 9th, 10th; 5 hours/week, 5 weeks each

Javascript, Typescript, ReactJS, Scala

Worked under the guidance of then CTO Dr. James Aman
Programmed primarily with javascript (JS) using Typescript and ReactJS

Projects:

Conversion of BramblJS library, a library made to communicate frontend sites to their proprietary blockchain, to typescript.
Broswerfication of BramblJS in order to enable chrome extension integration
Creations of Ribn a blockchain wallet chrome extension which has now grown into a much larger project.

Assistant Coach at Houston Hotshots Youth Team

9th, 10th; 4 hours/week, 25 wks/year

Volunteered as an assistant coach, leading practices for underprivileged players and acting as a role model.

Education

Post Oak High School Houston, TX

SAT: 1550
GPA: 4.83/5.0
IB Course Load: Mathematics high level (HL), Chemistry HL, Language and Literature HL, Spanish HL, Economics HL Physics standard level (SL), Chinese SL, Theory of Knowledge (TOK)

Professional Skills

Programmming Languages:

Typescript Python JavaScript CSS HTML

Frameworks/Libraries:

React.JS Redux Material UI Semantic UI Bootstrap 4/5 Pandas NumPy

Languages:

English - Fluent Spanish - Fluent Chinese - Proficient French - Beginner

Aptitudes:

Motivated Solution-Oriented Flexible Fast Learner Self-disciplined

My Portfolio

Education / ReactJS / HTMl, Javascript, CSS

ESL Webdev Course

ESL-Webdev is a website that I built. It contains a curriculum of video lessons on web development. Deigned to be taught in both English and Spanish. My objective with the site is to provide it as a tool for aspiring Spanish-speaking developers to learn enough English vocabulary to enable them to work in an English-dominated environment.

For code visit github.com/mallow43/esl-webdev

Blockchain / Typescript, Javascript

ridePool Carpooling App

ridePool is a carpooling web app designed to help coordinate school carpools.

The app consists of a school calendar that people willing to carpool would add their planned trips whether they are to or from the school or to an external school-related event. Members of the school community can then choose to join a user's route and if accepted by the driver they will be included in an auto-generated Google Maps route in order to streamline the navigation process.

To view a video demonstration of the app for the Congressional App Challenge view this video.

E-Commerce / NodeJS, ExpressJS, SemanticUI / HTMl, Javascript, CSS

E-commerce Template Site

This was a project I actually began to help out a family member. It involved writing out a full e-commerce site with stripe enabled payment. Eventually I wound up selling personalized versions of this site to numerous small businesses.

This was the sales beta for clients to try out: Sample site

Blockchain / Typescript, Javascript

muBrambl Blockchain API Package

This was a project I contributed to heavily during my internship at Topl. It is a vanilla Javascript package for interacting with the Topl blockchain network within a browser. This server-side SDK is compliant with the Dion version of the Topl protocol as defined by the reference implementation, Bifrost client.

Blockchain / ReactJS / HTMl, Javascript, CSS

Ribn Chrome Extension Wallet

This was a project I actually started while at Topl. It is a chrome extension walled to interact with the Topl blockchain and is built of the muBrambl library cited above.

The Ribn I developed, now surely with many more features, allowed users to:

View their Poly balance and assets held by the wallet
Mint assets to their own or to another wallet
Transfer Polys and assets

Python / Pygame

Minesweeper

A classic pygame based minesweeper game built completly from scratch and with a slightly adapted gameplay.

See my other projects on Github