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About Me

Hi! I'm Ben Irastorza, a fourth-year Computer Science student at Georgia Tech. From building my first website in high school to assembling custom PCs for clients, I've always been interested in technology.

My experience includes building advanced Generative AI solutions, developing deep learning models for healthcare analytics, and creating real-time data-monitoring systems for grid stability, all while adhering to modern software development best practices and using industry-leading tools.

I also value collaboration and mentorship through my time as a Transfer2Tech Mentor, helping incoming transfer students succeed at Georgia Tech, and as a Founding Father of the Lambda Chi Alpha's Beta-Kappa chapter, helping foster a culture of leadership, community, and growth.

These experiences have shaped how I approach problem-solving and teamwork. Additionally, professional recommendations consistently highlight my ability to solve complex problems and deliver impactful results.

Outside of building software, I enjoy lifting weights, playing sports, listening to music, and spending time with friends and family.

I'm always open to chatting about new projects, AI, or just connecting. Feel free to reach out!

Tech Skills

Experience

Incoming Software Engineer Intern - Capital One

Jun 2026 - Aug 2026

Summer 2026 Technology Internship Program

TBD TBD TBD

Bulk Power Operations Intern - Southern Company

Aug 2025 - Dec 2025

Reduced data retrieval time by ~97% by developing a Python CLI tool leveraging the AVEVA PI Web API, replacing a manual Excel-based ingestion process with automated shell scripts for monthly analyses.

Engineered a real-time monitoring system for high-volatility data center loads, enabling predictive generation dispatch that reduced Area Control Error (ACE) swings and prevented frequency-based grid instability.

Established the organization's top-performing winter peak demand forecast by implementing an XGBoost model with tailored meteorological features and data center load-growth analysis, reducing MAPE by 47%.

Python AVEVA PI Power BI

Advanced Analytics Intern - UCB

May 2025 - Aug 2025

Enabled identification of undiagnosed patients and risk flagging by building a BERT-based model that encoded longitudinal claims data into dense embeddings, supporting patient journey clustering across large populations.

Strengthened risk assessment for an anti-seizure medication by developing a survival analysis model with left-truncation and right-censoring corrections, benchmarking internal outcomes against real-world evidence.

Validated drug usage patterns for a rare pediatric epilepsy disorder by running subpopulation analyses across Snowflake, surfacing prescribing trends that informed commercial strategy.

Python Snowflake Databricks

Software Engineer Intern - The Parker Avery Group

May 2024 - August 2024

Built an AI analytics team agent mapped to client business semantics, letting executives query metrics in natural language and auto-generate dashboards, accelerating decision-making and reducing analytics backlog.

Resolved errors in forecast bias and accuracy queries by curating a RAG-driven Text-to-SQL dataset of validated natural language-to-PostgreSQL pairs, increasing agent query accuracy by 16%.

Optimized large-scale competitor product matching by migrating sequential embedding workflows to OpenAI's Batch API, reducing costs by 50% and accelerating throughput for thousands of SKUs.

Python PostgreSQL Jira

Projects

Wiki Retriever project featuring Fandom wiki integration

Wiki Retriever

Get precise answers from multiple wiki sites through a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline, enabling seamless, domain-specific question answering.

Enhanced Spotify Wrapped application interface

Enhanced Spotify Wrapped

A better spotify wrapped experience, enhanced with personalized AI-driven functionality.

Testimonials

"Ben made a real impact during his time with us leveraging his computer science and AI background."

- Srihari Jaganathan, Director of Advanced Analytics at UCB

"Ben's dedication and innovative contributions have been invaluable to our team."

- Sam Iosevich, Chief Analytics Officer at The Parker Avery Group

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