Angel J. Haro
Software Engineer
I'm a software engineer in Southern California. Currently the only developer behind the veterinary medicine system at Western University. Before that I taught kids in underfunded districts how to code through Apple, trained neural networks with Google, did mutation testing research at Kean University, and got government security clearance to crash self-driving cars in simulations at the U.S. Department of Transportation. I lift weights, binge watch anime, play video games, and will spend hours perfecting my terminal instead of sleeping.
Angel J. Haro
Software Engineer
I'm a software engineer in Southern California. Currently the only developer behind the veterinary medicine system at Western University. Before that I taught kids in underfunded districts how to code through Apple, trained neural networks with Google, did mutation testing research at Kean University, and got government security clearance to crash self-driving cars in simulations at the U.S. Department of Transportation. I lift weights, binge watch anime, play video games, and will spend hours perfecting my terminal instead of sleeping.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Experience
Software Engineer
College of Veterinary Medicine
Dec 2024 — Present
- Sole engineer and primary owner of CVMApp (Spring Boot, React, MySQL) serving 580+ users across 4 student cohorts plus staff and faculty.
- Replaced third-party vendor with in-house Spring Boot REST API, saving $50,000/year (90% cost reduction) and enabling faster feature delivery.
Experience
Dec 2024 — Present
Software Engineer
College of Veterinary Medicine — Pomona, CA
- Sole engineer and primary owner of CVMApp (Spring Boot, React, MySQL) serving 580+ users across 4 student cohorts plus staff and faculty.
- Replaced third-party vendor with in-house Spring Boot REST API, saving $50,000/year (90% cost reduction) and enabling faster feature delivery.
May 2023 — Aug 2023
Software Engineering Intern
U.S. Department of Transportation — Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center — McLean, VA
- Automated CARLA/OpenPilot/Unreal/NVIDIA environment setup with Docker, reducing configuration time from 4 hours to 45 minutes.
- Granted security clearance for federal research systems.
Oct 2023 — Jun 2024
Software Engineering Researcher
Google exploreCSR — California State University, Dominguez Hills — Carson, CA
- Trained neural network from scratch (Python/NumPy) on MERL BRDF dataset (100K+ samples) to predict material reflectance.
- Awarded $3,000 Google Scholarship for research excellence.
Jan 2023 — May 2023
Software Development Engineer in Test
CAHSI — Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions — Union, NJ
- Achieved 95% mutation coverage on 10,000+ line codebase using LittleDarwin and PiTest.
- Placed 2nd of 300+ contestants at Great Minds in STEM national competition.
May 2021 — Dec 2022
Apple Lead Teacher
Center for Innovation in STEM Education — Apple — Los Angeles, CA
- Led team of 10 Apple Teachers; scaled Swift/JavaScript curricula from 3 to 13 LAUSD schools.
- Reached 200+ K-12 students across the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Projects
Barbershop Application
Full-stack scheduling and management platform with multi-role access control for shop owners, barbers, and customers.
- Enforced 25+ RBAC rules across owner/barber/customer roles with stateless JWT and refresh-token rotation.
- Modeled 11 domains with JPA; implemented transactional boundaries, Bean Validation, and cursor-based pagination.
Full Stack
Machine Learning
Projects
Barbershop Application
Full-stack scheduling and management platform with multi-role access control for shop owners, barbers, and customers.
- Enforced 25+ RBAC rules across owner/barber/customer roles with stateless JWT and refresh-token rotation.
- Modeled 11 domains with JPA; implemented transactional boundaries, Bean Validation, and cursor-based pagination.
Full Stack
Machine Learning