# Raquel Taborga > SWE in Trading/Computing | ECE/CS @ Cornell University Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/raqueltaborga I’m a software engineer with a background in computer engineering, interested in high performance computing and optimization. At my current company, I’m currently part of a team building a matching engine for trading. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ HPR (Hyannis Port Research) Jan 2026 – Present Developing a hardware-accelerated matching engine for global trading. ### Software Engineer @ Medtronic Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Boston, MA Focus on multi-threaded, distributed systems and performance optimization. Previously served as a Scrum Master for a 10-person engineering team, leading Agile projects that improved system reliability, availability, and performance. Developed ML models in Python (Scikit-learn, TensorFlow), implemented algorithms in C++, and built data pipelines using AWS and Docker for real-time analytics. Team emphasizes on data and memory management, safety-critical software, and scalable data systems for surgical robotics. ### Teaching Assistant | Embedded Systems (ECE 3140/CS 3420) @ Cornell University College of Engineering Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Returning Teaching Assistant (TA) for ECE 3140/CS3420 Present and lead discussion/recitation sections ### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant | Design with Microcontrollers (ECE 4760) @ Cornell University College of Engineering Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Teaching Assistant (TA) for ECE 4760: Design with Microcontrollers, an upper-level lab-based embedded systems class in which students build small scale robots using an ARM processor. TA duties consisted of helping students debug their code during lab hours and grading technical reports. ### Electrical Team Member @ Cornell Formula SAE Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Ithaca, New York Area Team of over 50 undergraduate engineers that design, manufacture, tune, and race original racecar at annual FSAE competition Work with other members to bring up PCBs, run high and low voltage tests, discuss functional changes on new revisions of boards, and assist in firmware 2019-2020: Create schematic and board layout of motherboard on Altium Designer, collaborate with daughter-board designers and other car sub-teams to make electrical and physical design decisions Debug and revise boards after running tests on each ### Software Engineer Intern @ Tesla Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 ### Power Electronics Engineer Intern @ Astranis Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States Help design power system for satellite, took ownership of original converter design. Gained proficiency in PCB layout, bring-up, and testing for power electronics. ### Guidance Navigation and Controls Intern @ Astranis Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States Currently writing and running simulations in Python to effectively track battery state of charge based on incident sun angle on solar arrays. More projects upcoming ### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant | Embedded Systems (ECE 3140/CS 3420) @ Cornell University College of Engineering Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Assist students with debugging and understanding microcontroller concepts, and coding in Assembly and C. Assist professor and head TA with grading and answering student questions. ### Vice President @ The Steminist Movement Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Ithaca, New York, United States Manage, plan, and co-lead STEM workshops for middle school aged girls on behalf of national non-profit organization, The Steminist Movement, Inc. Plan and conduct intra-university meetings. Girls begin to lose interest in STEM fields in middle school, and we aim to change that, beginning with the the first university branch here at Cornell. ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Cornell Electrical and Computer Engineering Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Design and tune computer vision algorithms for analyzing chest CT scans to identify calcification in aorta. ### Embedded Systems / Intro to Digital Logic Tutor @ Diversity Programs Cornell Engineering Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Offer tutoring to first generation and/or underrepresented students in engineering for conceptual understandings of Embedded Systems and Programming concepts taught in CS3410. ### Power Team Lead @ Cornell University ChemE Car Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Ithaca, New York Area Nationally ranked chemical engineering project team that competes at the regional and national level Lead team that uses thermoelectric generator (TEG) plates that convert thermal energy to electrical; capitalize on this technology to create circuit that powers small vehicle; makes effective use of an Arduino for stopping mechanism Proficient in: soldering, circuit analysis, leadership, communication ### Engineering Intern @ Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Baltimore, MD Worked under Department of Nanobiotechnology creating program in Python to identify errors with manual peptide synthesis; performed data analysis for chemical engineering Lab Coded simulations of cascading chemical reactions based on strong understanding of physics behind instrument used in characterizing molecule Program modeled physics phenomena (ionization spectrometry) during imaging Presented original research at national conference, learned valuable written and verbal communication skills ### Research Assistant @ Cornell University Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Ithaca, New York Breast cancer bone metastasis research in biomedical engineering department under Dr. Claudia Fishbach ### Math Instructor @ Mathnasium - The Math Learning Center Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Eden Prairie, Minnesota Math instructor for pupils ages 5-20, gave personalized math instruction from basic arithmetic and geometry to single-variable calculus ### Lab Assistant @ University of Minnesota Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Minneapolis, Minnesota Assisted in temporal lobe epilepsy research at Krook-Magnuson Neuroscience lab ## Education ### B.S in Electrical and Computer Engineering Cornell Duffield College of Engineering ### Eden Prairie Senior High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/raquel-taborga --- Source: https://flows.cv/raqueltaborga JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/raqueltaborga/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31