Sasha Paulovich

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Sasha Paulovich

Creative Technologist | Software Engineer

sasmicpau@gmail.com

Member Since 2026

Bio

Creative technologist and full-stack software engineer with 6+ years building scalable web applications and cloud infrastructure. Proven expertise in modern development stacks, complemented by hands-on experience in real-time interactive systems, creative coding, and immersive performance. As a dancer, aerialist, and maker, I bring an embodied, craft-driven perspective to technical problem-solving and am excited to build intuitive experiences that spark wonder and foster human connection.

Education

2019
Fordham University B.S. Computer Science
2025
University of Colorado Boulder M.S. Creative Technology and Design

● Focused on building interactive installations and experiences that combine movement/bodies, immersive projections, generative sound, and physical computation

Work & Experience

Full-Stack Software Engineer Renaissance Learning
2019-2025

● Collaborated cross-functionally on 3 Agile teams to develop user-driven features for Renaissance’s education platform serving 1.2M+ students in 6,500+ schools worldwide
● Implemented WCAG AA-compliant student experience redesign, evangelizing front-end accessibility best practices
● Owned design and development of Star Preschool quiz engine, translating academic research into a stable
computer-adaptive assessment powered by C#/.NET, Redis, and MongoDB
● Delivered self-serve rostering solution for school districts through third-party integration utilizing AWS Step Functions, Lambda, and DynamoDB
● Reduced Student Information System (SIS) load time from 10+ sec to <3 sec by converting the application from JIT to AOT compilation
● Regularly presented work to technical and non-technical audiences at sprint and epic exit meetings

Data Science Scholar Microsoft Research
2018

● Selected as 1 of 8 students from 200 applicants to attend the Data Science Summer School (DS3)
● Programmed R, Bash, and Python scripts to retrieve/clean data, build statistical models, and generate visualizations
● Collaborated with leading Microsoft researchers to analyze the NYC MTA’s subway countdown clock data and investigate the reliability of the subway system

Professional Skills

  • Ableton Live
  • Angular
  • AWS
  • C#
  • HTML/CSS
  • MapMapper
  • Microcontrollers
  • P5.js
  • Projection Mapping
  • Python
  • real-time data systems
  • Resolume
  • SQL
  • TouchDesigner
  • Typescript

Certifications

  • TouchDesigner Operation Foundations Certificate (Mar 2026)

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