Admit One · Full-Stack Development
Andrew Zhang
Full-stack developer building event & ticketing systems — B.S. Mathematics–Computer Science, UC San Diego.
I design and ship end-to-end products: React/TypeScript front ends, FastAPI and Node backends, and the AWS infrastructure that runs them. Most recently I've been building event-ticketing platforms — from a personal project to a system now serving 800+ students.
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Education
B.S. Mathematics–Computer Science
University of California, San Diego · GPA 3.62 / 4.00
Data Structures & OOD
Systems Programming & Software Tools
Accelerated Intro to Programming
Intro to Python
Principles of Data Science
Linear Algebra
Location
San Diego, CA
Graduation
Jun 2028
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Experience
Web Development Lead
CSSA, UC San Diego
- Led the 0-to-1 development of an event ticketing platform based on my personal project, Event Master, now serving 800+ users; personally implemented ~80% of the system, including the entire backend, cloud deployment, and core frontend data flow.
- Built organizer-facing features: event creation and modification, QR-code–based attendee check-in, pre-purchase survey collection, real-time ticket sales analytics, and standard/VIP ticket configuration.
- Built attendee-facing features for browsing events, purchasing tickets, and receiving confirmation emails with embedded images and unique QR codes.
- Established a production-ready engineering workflow: CI/CD pipelines, local development environments, database migrations, and AWS IAM users for access control.
Dates
Oct 2025–Present
Location
San Diego, CA
Backend Developer
ACM, UC San Diego
- In the Hackathon Portal (Node.js + TypeScript), implemented multiple API endpoints with database access, validation, and permission checks; merged and deployed to production.
- In the Membership Portal (Node.js + TypeScript), upgraded the local/dev PostgreSQL Docker image from 11.5 to 17.6; diagnosed test failures caused by DB behavior differences, confirmed no functional impact, and updated tests to restore a clean local run.
- Resolved Git merge conflicts for an AWS SDK upgrade PR in the Membership Portal after the main branch changed, unblocking the merge.
Dates
Oct 2025–Present
Location
San Diego, CA
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Project
Event Master
Ticket booking platform · personal project · demo video
- Built and deployed a full-stack, Ticketmaster-like app for event browsing, ticket booking, and organizer event publishing (Vercel + AWS EC2, Dockerized backend).
- Developed FastAPI + SQLAlchemy services backed by MySQL (many-to-many schema) with server-side filtering/sorting; integrated Redis for OTP and AWS S3 (private bucket) for media storage.
- Implemented JWT authentication + RBAC for access control, email verification and booking confirmations via the Gmail API, and optimized client data fetching with React Query.
Dates
Jul–Sep 2025
Type
Personal
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Skills
Programming
Frameworks & Tools
Other
Focus
Full-Stack
Status
Building