Bay Area / Princeton, NJ

Sevastian Venegas.

Princeton Computer Science. Software engineer learning by building clean, useful products. Bay Area born. First-generation student—forging my own path.

I'm a Computer Science student at Princeton, minoring in entrepreneurship and bioengineering, originally from the Bay Area. My path has been shaped by stepping into unfamiliar environments early and learning to operate with resilience, focus, and initiative.

I started building by hardcoding an automated pizza-ordering bot in high school and have since developed product-driven projects that emphasize usability, clarity, and execution. I'm currently product-focused, with a growing curiosity for hardware and how software integrates with real-world systems.

I'm drawn to high-impact environments where results are earned through execution. Long term, I aim to build in the startup space, with a particular interest in personal health systems and the role AI will play in shaping how individuals understand and manage their health and lives.

Based in: Princeton / SF
Studying: Computer Science
Focus: Startups · AI · Health
Minors: Entrepreneurship, Bioengineering

September 2025 — Present
Software Developer · Hoagie.io
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- Develop and maintain Hoagie Mail, a campus-wide email distribution platform serving 1,000+ students and delivering thousands of emails weekly, across a Go backend, React frontend, and MongoDB database.
- Identified and resolved production issues, improving platform reliability for a high-traffic student platform.
September 2025 — Present
Website & Software Developer · Tiger Magazine
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- Designed and implemented a survey-driven matching system using similarity scoring and optimization to generate one-to-one pairings between participants.
- Maintain and manage tigermag.com using WordPress, including design, formatting, and AdSense.
July 2022 — August 2023
Middle School Computer Science Teacher · Beechwood School
- Taught middle school students the fundamentals of Java, HTML, and CSS through hands-on website projects.
- Fostered a supportive classroom while managing 13 students and engaging with faculty and parents.

Fynd

Full-stack iOS marketplace on the App Store — 163 users, 30+ bookings. Real-time feed, map discovery, in-app messaging, push notifications, and end-to-end payments with Apple Pay via Stripe Connect.

SwiftUISupabaseStripe Connect

WYA

iOS hangout scheduling app — resolves mutual availability via Google Calendar, queries the Places API for venues, and proposes confirmed hangouts end-to-end with no manual input. Accept or decline pings directly from a live notification.

React NativeExpoSupabaseTwilioTypeScript

Daru

Full-stack social platform for creating and sharing time capsules — global feed, search, profiles, and Firebase-backed auth and storage.

TypeScriptReactNode.jsFirebaseAWS

Discord OfferUp Webscraper

Discord bot running 24/7 on a Raspberry Pi that tracks OfferUp prices across 13+ servers, scrapes 6,000+ listings, and surfaces deals via IQR-based outlier detection.

C#.NETSQLitePlaywright