# Matthew Nieva > Backend Software Engineer At Cisco Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/matthewnieva I am a current undergraduate student studying Computer Science & Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. I am passionate about empowering people to make a difference through technology and am spending college learning how to achieve that! ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Cisco Jan 2024 – Present | San Jose, California, United States Backend Infrastructure Team for Data Ingestion and Processing Pipelines (Java, Python, AWS) ### Backend Infrastructure Software Enginering Intern @ Cisco Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 Modernized system to process hardware telemetry data, making it 60% more performant and Scalable using PySpark and AWS Glue. Established an automated CI/CD testing suite reducing AWS costs and streamlining development. Enforced best practices of OpenAPI by overhauling previous endpoints in Java Spring. ### Mentorship Co-Director @ UPE at UCLA Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Supporting the UCLA CS community as a mentorship co-director, organizing events and gateways to foster relationships between all members of the CS community. ### Dev Team Director @ ACM at UCLA Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Serving as the Dev Team Director of ACM at UCLA, I manage a team of developers for UCLA's largest computer science organization, working on projects that can help serve both ACM's infrastructure as well as the larger UCLA CS community ### Machine Learning Software Engineering Intern @ Cisco Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Jose, California, United States Developing Cisco CX Cloud applications on the Big Data AI/ML team, Risk Mitigation Check. Optimized functions within machine learning prediction/training pipelines on millions of hardware devices by around 96% with SIMD vectorization and matrix manipulation (Numpy, AWS, Apache Spark) Estimated to save up to $30000 yearly on machine learning costs with new paradigms of computation ### Dev Team Training Director @ ACM Teach LA (ACM @ UCLA) Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Supporting new members to our dev team by developing training curriculum to teach HTML/CSS/JS, React, Project Management, Backend, and more. ### Software Developer @ ACM Teach LA (ACM @ UCLA) Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 ACM Teach LA's core mission is to empower students in the LA area with the power of computer science, and to provide mentorship and support to students who want to pursue computer science, either academically or as a career. As a project developer, I formed a team of software developers and graphic designers that is working to create a Learning Lab that teaches kids about bias and ethics within machine learning and present information in a fun and interactive way that makes it easy to understand. In my time at ACM Teach LA, I have researched case studies about the effects of discrimination in machine learning and have worked as a web developer to create our interactive Learning Lab using React. ### IoT Software Engineering Intern @ Miravel Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Developing firmware and IoT infrastructure for smart garden service. Established continuous streaming, processing, validation of telemetry data to the cloud for an IoT smart garden system with OCI Engineers. Configured System-on-Chip web-server to establish local WiFi connection and GPIO pin control with our hardware and mobile client Built out user authentication, database integration, and hardware integration REST APIs to connect the mobile client with the IoT infrastructure. ### EyeWalk CTO & Full-Stack App Developer @ Innovate@UCLA Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Over the course of the 10 week program, I have worked at the Young Tech Professionals Program with Innovate@UCLA the past 10 weeks with 6 other students. At our demo day, we were the winning team of the program and will present again in front of more judges in the fall! As part of the SmartCityTech team, I worked with my team of undergraduate and MBA students alongside our advisor, Behrang Abadi, from the City of Long Beach to come up with a product along the theme of “Smart City Technology.” I was our CTO and handled the full stack development of our project. Slide deck is linked down below! ### BruinLabs Startup App Developer @ Bruin Entrepreneurs Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 BruinLabs is an 8 week startup initiative launched by Bruin Entrepreneurs. With my team of students from UCLA and Indiana University, we designed an app that would help students stay connected during the online COVID-19 Era. I conducted market/customer research for our project and also worked on UI/UX and backend integration of our service. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science and Engineering UCLA ### High School Diploma Dougherty Valley High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matthew-nieva - Portfolio: https://matthewnieva.com - GitHub: https://github.com/matthewcn56 --- Source: https://flows.cv/matthewnieva JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/matthewnieva/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29