# Alejandra Perea Rojas

> Software Engineer at IBM

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alejandra

## Work Experience
### Research and Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2024 – Present | United States
Part of Performance in IBM Quantum.

### Quantum Software Developer Intern @ IBM
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Yorktown Heights, New York, United States
Contributed to job compilation efficiency in Qiskit Runtime by implementing a Go endpoint for owner-verified deletion of compiled quantum payloads, complemented by a mock API for unit testing and to verify the functionality of the endpoint. Augmented Qiskit Runtime's reliability by designing over 20 error types and 30 unit tests. Implemented various forms of error propagation, logging, and handling across different Python codebases, including the Near-Time Compute services.

### Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder @ Entrevista
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States
Created and launched the MVP of Entrevista by developing a web-based JavaScript recorder and text-to-speech that simulates a real-time casing interview via a REST API framework and a Python video-processor, an open-source text-generator, and AWS S3 handlers. Deployed in the span of a month, leveraging Heroku, GitHub, and AWS. Earned finalist position in Y-Combinator with two Co-Founders, initiating team and user acquisition.

### Teaching Fellow @ Harvard University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Teaching fellow for a class on Systems Programming and Machine Organization. Main responsibilities include holding section and office hours focused on different infrastructures regarding low-level programming done through C++.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Harvard University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Boosted efficiency and reliability of the PAWS SMART API by developing a Python HTTP API. This facilitated simultaneous multi-case testing, supplanted manual Postman HTTP requests, and yielded substantial time savings. Broadened the testing scope and enhanced error handling by leveraging Azure for data storage and creating 15 additional mock QGIS parks, enabling bulk request processing, thorough testing, and accelerating the integration of new features.

### Drones and Remote Sensors Intern @ Wildlife Conservation Society
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Remote
Developed an article processing interface with Python and SQL for Google News and Scholar. Contributed with over 1,500 parsed articles from the first use of the program, which helped identify quality sources to start the WCS Library. With the parser algorithm, researched and drafted an 8-page white-paper on state-of-the-art AI video processing and conservation tools that helped advance multiple projects at WCS throughout months after the internship.

### Ethical AI Intern @ C Minds
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Remote - Mexico
Expedited three research briefings to assist in the set-up of a Diabetic Retinopathy AI-based Screening Program in Jalisco. Assisted in the installing of a Living Lab in Yucatan with the finalization of three AI-based conservation projects.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science
Harvard University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024

### High School Diploma
Fox Lane High School
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alejandraperear
- Website: https://alejandraprj.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-21