Christian Hirschey

Experience

Arity · Software Engineer Intern

Refactored a Java/Flink microservice handling 1.7 billion miles and 140M+ trips daily.

May 2026 – Aug 2026 Details

Spearheaded the complete refactor of a Java/Flink microservice handling 1.7 billion miles/140M+ trips daily, eliminating external dependencies to cut codebase size by 60%, lower CPU usage by 30%, and boost speed by 59%.
Won Arity AI Hackathon with a scheduled Python ADK Agent on GCP to flag BigQuery data quality issues.
Deployed Hackathon agent into production to automate anomaly detection, saving 10+ developer hours per incident.

Java Python Apache Kafka Apache Flink AWS GCP Jenkins

Regions Bank · Software Engineer Intern

Built a React lockbox app and REST endpoints for a C#/ASP.NET MVC backend.

May 2025 – Aug 2025 Details

Developed React lockbox retrieval app, streamlining access for 8,000+ clients and saving 1,000+ hours annually.
Designed and deployed 3 RESTful API endpoints for a C#/ASP.NET MVC backend, leveraging Entity Framework Core and Aspose.PDF to automate PDF report generation and reduce annual costs by $20,000.
Won Regions AWS Hackathon using AWS Lambda, ECS/Docker, S3, DynamoDB, Bedrock, and Python.

React C# JavaScript ASP.NET MVC Entity Framework AWS Docker

The University of Alabama · Software Engineer

Built a Django web app and REST API for ionospheric RF data.

Aug 2024 – May 2026 Details

Engineered a full-stack web app with Django to aggregate and visualize ionospheric RF data from 180+ stations.
Designed interactive Analysis tab using Mapbox API, cutting navigation time across observation sets by 95%.
Built REST API endpoints using Python/Django REST Framework to streamline bulk observation data retrieval.
Presented first-author research on the Personal Space Weather Network System at the 2026 HamSCI Workshop.

Django Python Linux Data Visualization

Projects

Winner · EmoryHacks

Short-Form Content Generator

Mixed-media video generator for short-form educational content.

Details

Won Best AI (1st of 20 teams) at EmoryHacks for a short-form content generation React web app.
Architected a Python/FastAPI pipeline that ingests mixed media and produces synchronized educational videos, applying Gemini for dialogue generation, ElevenLabs for voice synthesis, and FFmpeg for automated assembly.

Python FastAPI React AWS S3 TypeScript Gemini API PostgreSQL

Winner · UGAHacks XI

Real-Time Computer Vision ASL Game

Real-time ASL game built with computer vision and gesture recognition.

Details

Won Hack for Good Track (1st of 74 teams) for an RPG that gamifies American Sign Language (ASL) education.
Implemented real-time MediaPipe/scikit-learn recognition pipeline, utilizing a Random Forest classifier to detect custom gestures with high accuracy while allowing new sign integration in under 2 minutes.

MediaPipe scikit-learn OpenCV Computer Vision Python Pygame

Winner · UGAHacks X

HIPAA-Compliant Health Platform

Next.js health platform with secure storage via IPFS.

Details

Won Best AI (1st of 39 teams) for AI-driven Next.js health monitoring platform with secure data storage.
Engineered a distributed, immutable database with relational models that supports data updates on Pinata (IPFS).
Created custom Python SDK with FastAPI to power an internal query engine for CRUD operations on the database.

Python FastAPI Next.js TypeScript Auth0 Pinata

Education

The University of Alabama · GPA: 4.0 Expected May 2027

Accelerated Master of Science in Computer Science · Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics

Relevant Coursework: UX/UI Design, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Full-Stack Development, Data Structures and Algorithms, Databases, Operating Systems, Object-Oriented Programming, Software Engineering