Tim Dacalos

About

Hey everyone, my name is Tim. I graduated from the University of California: Irvine in Computer Science, specializing in Systems and Software. I'm passionate about turning ideas into functional and elegant applications and understanding how technology works at its core.

I initially gravitated towards coding to help others, and my journey has led me to explore operating systems and web development. I'm actively seeking new-grad positions to apply and expand these skills.

Outside of the computer, you'll find me indulging in J-RPGs and discussing the newest anime.

Education

University of California, Irvine

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Sep 2022 – Jun 2026

Experience

Learning Assistant

Donald Bren School of ICS

Sep 2025 – Jun 2026

• Facilitated lab sections for 120+ students across 3 quarters, running 1-on-1 code reviews to diagnose syntax errors, indexing bugs, and logic issues in Python.
• Relayed instructional objectives and assignment clarifications from the lead TA, providing starter code examples and walkthroughs to reinforce introductory concepts like lists and loops.

Technologies

Projects

Web/Mobile

NextGenPicks

SwiftUIFirebasePython

An iOS app that automates 200+ NBA player prop analyses every day. A Python ranking pipeline combines matchup strength with historical hit rates, improving pick hit rate by 20% over the previous heuristic in a 3-week backtest, and cached, hash-indexed lookups cut the daily fetch from 10 minutes to 3.

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ShazAnime

ReactTypeScriptPythonFastAPIDockerRenderTailwind CSS

Shazam for anime openings: it listens through your microphone and pulls up the matching opening video from the AnimeThemes API in under 3 seconds. A multi-strategy matching pipeline resolves Japanese/English title mismatches across APIs, and migrating to ShazamIO cut recognition time from 7s to 3s while eliminating all hosting and API costs.

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Seiyuu Hub

ReactTailwind CSSSupabase

Seiyuu Hub is a website where users can discuss and discover content about their favorite seiyuu (Japanese voice actor). Users can create posts, view posts, and interact with them by commenting or upvoting.

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Fabflix Movie Database

JavaJavaScriptMySQLAWS (EC2)DockerKubernetesApache Tomcat

A full-stack movie database built from scratch, serving 50,000+ movies loaded through a Java SAX-based ETL pipeline. It runs as a load-balanced, multi-service deployment on AWS EC2 with Docker and Kubernetes, backed by a MySQL primary-replica setup that keeps queries working when a replica fails. Features include secure login, full-text search, cart checkout, and reCAPTCHA.

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