Joshua Nelson
Teacher
Education
- Dean's Honors List (all semesters)
- President of ACM Student Chapter
Experience
- Developed and implemented a new STEM curriculum that increased standardized test scores in science by 15% across the grade level.
- Effectively managed a diverse classroom of 30 students, utilizing differentiated instruction to accommodate varying learning styles and IEPs.
- Integrated educational technology tools (Google Classroom, Kahoot) to increase student engagement and track performance metrics.
- Collaborated cross-functionally to engineer and deliver core Teacher solutions with 99.9% uptime.
- Participated in automated testing and CI/CD pipelines, accelerating release cycles by 25%.
Projects
- Implemented distributed consensus protocol with leader election and fault-tolerant replicated state machine.
- Benchmarked throughput reaching 100,000 tasks/second across a 5-node cluster.