Miguel Ventura.

Damascus, MD

Hi, I'm Miguel Ventura — Full Stack Engineer & UI/UX Designer

Computer Science student at the University of Maryland building full-stack products — from clinical and athletic platforms to a self-hosted homelab on a Raspberry Pi.

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About

I build full-stack products that combine solid engineering with thoughtful design — from clinical tools to self-hosted infrastructure.

I'm a Computer Science student at the University of Maryland with hands-on experience shipping production software: automation systems for academic programs, a computer-vision dashboard deployed with National Children's Hospital, and a sports performance platform used by 30+ schools. I also run a homelab on a Raspberry Pi — Dockerized services over Tailscale including a personal dashboard, Jellyfin media server, and this portfolio. I work across the stack — React and Next.js on the frontend, SQL and Postgres on the backend — and lead UX/UI design in Figma when products need to fit real user workflows.

Education

Academic background

  • Bachelor's in Computer Science

    University of Maryland · College Park, MD

    September 2023 – December 2026

    Relevant coursework

    • Web Development
    • Intro to Artificial Intelligence
    • Machine Learning
    • Computer Vision

Experience

Work history

  • Software Engineer

    University of Maryland · College Park, MD

    September 2024 – Present

    • Developed Next.js and PostgreSQL-based automation workflows for a UMD-affiliated database system, streamlining tracking of grades, attendance, and academic requirements for 240+ scholars.
    • Built an automated email logging system using Express and React to monitor room foot traffic, reducing inaccurate traffic data by 80%.
    • Next.js
    • PostgreSQL
    • Express
    • React

  • Full Stack Engineer — UI/UX Designer

    App Dev Club · College Park, MD

    September 2024 – May 2025

    • Shipped a clinician-facing web dashboard based on React that runs a deep learning Computer Vision model on pediatric chest X-rays for real-time Acute Chest Syndrome (ACS) detection, deployed under contract with National Children's Hospital to address diagnostic delays affecting 250,000+ children.
    • Led end-to-end UX/UI design in Figma, iterating from low-fidelity wireframes through high-fidelity prototypes to translate radiologist and clinician workflows into the dashboard's frontend.
    • React
    • Computer Vision
    • Figma
    • Healthcare

  • Full Stack Engineer — UI/UX Designer

    Spark My Sport · Pleasanton, California

    September 2024 – May 2025

    • Engineered a full-stack basketball performance tracking platform with a distributed international team, addressing recruitment visibility gaps for young athletes by shipping live video streaming and on-demand hosting on a React + SQL + Vercel stack adopted by 30+ schools.
    • Designed 15+ end-to-end screens in Figma, iterating wireframes and UX flows based on continuous feedback from athletes, coaches, and recruiters to tailor each surface to its primary user persona.
    • React
    • SQL
    • Vercel
    • Figma

Projects

Projects & homelab

Professional roles are listed under Experience. Below are homelab services running on my Raspberry Pi and standalone side projects.

  • Homelab

    Homelab Dashboard

    Self-hosted control plane on a Raspberry Pi unifying fleet monitoring, tasks, bookmarks, an Obsidian-compatible notes vault, IMAP mail client, bank transaction importer, remote password manager, and live Docker stats — all behind session-based auth on a Tailscale-only tailnet.

    • Next.js
    • Express
    • PostgreSQL
    • Docker
    • Tailscale

  • Homelab

    Jellyfin Media Server

    ARM64 Jellyfin deployment serving household music libraries from SSD storage, integrated with a custom yt-dlp pipeline (YTRipper) that automatically ingests YouTube audio into the library.

    • Jellyfin
    • Docker
    • yt-dlp
    • Linux

  • Homelab

    Personal Portfolio

    This site — a Next.js single-page portfolio with resume-driven content, dark theme, and responsive layout. Built to showcase education, experience, projects, and skills from structured data.

    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    • Tailwind CSS
    • React

  • Side project

    AI Powered Secretary

    Architected a LangChain-orchestrated AI agent suite automating routine administrative tasks — scheduling, correspondence, and document handling — shipped through Kubernetes on DigitalOcean with a web interface and integrated payment processing for end-to-end customer self-service.

    • LangChain
    • Kubernetes
    • DigitalOcean
    • Python

Skills

Tools & technologies

  • Languages

    • Java
    • JavaScript
    • TypeScript
    • Python
    • Rust
    • C
    • C++
    • C#
    • HTML
    • CSS
    • SASS

  • Database

    • SQL
    • PostgreSQL
    • MongoDB
    • MySQL
    • Excel
    • Microsoft Access

  • Infrastructure

    • IP/TCP
    • Docker
    • Tailscale
    • Git
    • Linux
    • Kubernetes
    • AWS

  • Frameworks

    • Node.js
    • Express.js
    • FastAPI
    • REST APIs
    • GraphQL
    • React
    • React Native
    • Figma
    • CI/CD

Contact

Let's build something together.

Open to internships, collaborations, and conversations about software engineering, design, and impactful products.

Email me+1 (240) 855-8629LinkedInGitHub