Matthew Blanco

- Design and implement visually intuitive, contextual graphic designs to enhance user experiences across the platform.

- Maintain and improve our web app, focusing on frontend layout and user experience.

- Create wireframes, user flows, process flows, and site maps to communicate design concepts effectively

- Participate in design discussions to ensure alignment and feasibility of design ideas

- Customize themes for platform templates, layouts, CSS, and JavaScript

- Assisted teaching underclassmen students, of various degrees, Processing programming language throughout weekly project sprints.

- Held workshops to teach students programming and version control principles including Git and basic functional programming.

- Presented weekly projects to showcase what Processing and P5.js are cabable of within a graphic design practice.

- Worked with professors to divide assistant responsibilities and make sure students were aware of course resources

- Designed and Developed a modular UI to search, filter, and analyze company data from Banca Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy’s largest bank, to a rendered network and circular packing visualizations.

- Collaborated with other team members to properly implement visualization prototypes iterating off of feedback from team members and stakeholders

- Created an independent open-source ReactJS component library used throughout the visualization and in other Center for Design projects.

- Updated default brand styling when creating new brand marketplaces.

- Abstracted UI to more easily switch between brands and different visual styles.

- Added additional profile customization by allowing users to select and display items between brands.

- Created Olli, an open-source JavaScript library improving accessibility of data visualization with screen readers for blind and low-vision users.

- Implemented an adapter design pattern allowing the tool to be used alongside any visualization library such as Vega, Vega-Lite, and Observable Plot.

- Intentionally developed the library to be as light-weight as possible reducing overall dependencies and overhead when added to websites.

- Published the project to NPM and submitted the work as an academic poster that was accepted to IEEE VIS 2022.

- Contributed to the development of an open-source dynamic taint analysis tool for the JavaScript programming language.

- Added support to track program taint through JavaScript Promises and Async and Await operations through adding multiple function call stacks throughout the analysis and intercepting Promise events.

- Supported in part by National Science Foundation REU Project # 2109395.

- Graded assignments on a weekly basis providing thoughtful feedback on students code giving comments on both functionality and design of solutions

- Communicated with fellow TAs and faculty on assignment expectations and abnormal homework submissions

- Developed automatic documentation generation for CLI commands by scraping current documentation files in Markdown and modifying the format to better suite the command line.

- Used Docker simulate an Alluxio cluster in order to test and improve metric collection and dashboard layouts to better visualize the health of an Alluxio cluster.

- Authored a blog post about setting up new metric collection software with Alluxio