# Edward Citalan

> Instructional Student Assistant @ Sonoma State University | Computer Science, AI Safety

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/edwardcitalan

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Trust Point Protection Group
Jan 2025 – Present

### Instructional Student Assistant – SURI Program @ Sonoma State University
Jan 2025 – Present
- Developed and integrated page responsiveness indicators and improved frontend/backend interaction to enhance user experience for the SSU Resentencing website. 

- Researched and prototyped a chatbot with prompt formatting, safety disclaimers, and hallucination risk controls, contributing to ethical AI deployment in the legal domain.

- Wrote technical documentation, delivered live demos, and contributed to a full handoff package, including a transition memo, GitHub setup, and system testing logs.

### IBM Z Student Ambassador @ IBM Z Student Ambassador Program
Jan 2025 – Present | Rohnert Park, California, United States
As an IBM Z Student Ambassador, I represent IBM and mainframe technology on campus through leadership, education, and outreach.

- Earned the IBM Z Xplore Concepts Badge, demonstrating foundational skills in enterprise computing.

- Promote IBM Z tools and technologies through campus outreach, social media, and student engagement.

- Assist peers with onboarding into IBM Z Xplore and organize events that encourage participation in mainframe education.

- Support IBM’s mission of empowering the next generation of tech leaders through ethical, secure, and sustainable innovation.

### Advanced Computing for Social Change Fellow @ Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Used Large Language Models (LLMs) to analyze patient-doctor conversations, identifying patterns of epistemic injustice in medical communication.

- Applied sentiment analysis, conversational context modeling, and word frequency analysis to uncover disparities and support healthcare equity initiatives.

- Leveraged Frontera supercomputing, Python, R, and the OpenAI API to process and analyze large-scale datasets for socially impactful insights.

### Junior Java Developer Internship @ Walmart
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
- Developed and maintained Java-based applications in a fast-paced, Agile development environment.

- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and test new features.

- Optimized application performance and fixed bugs using debugging and testing techniques


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Sonoma State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/edward-citalan-a4184125a

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Last updated: 2026-04-10