Mark Pelico

Internship, Spring TX

• Designed a multi-model scan/verify pipeline with token and latency instrumentation for self-hosted local LLMs.
• Diagnosed and debugged deduplication defects, raising measured detection recall from 25% to 79% with zero false positives.
• Built a web dashboard and backing HTTP API with enforced data redaction, covered by a 139-test suite and run against 100K+ line codebases.

Internship, Houston TX

• Automated simulation testing by integrating Python unit tests with C++ Trick workflows, improving reliability 40%.
• Deployed pytest pipelines through GitLab CI/CD, cutting manual regression verification time by 70%.
• Developed an AI tool that parsed XML schematics into live simulation-linked diagrams through Trick hooks.

Teaching, Houston TX

• Taught 950+ students across two core C++ courses covering POSIX threads, IPC, memory management, and the STL.
• Mentored students through tree, graph, and multithreading implementations, improving assignment completion.

Teaching, Houston TX

• Facilitated enrichment sessions on algorithm tracing, runtime analysis, recursion, graphs, and hashing.
• Led guided practice and proof walkthroughs to strengthen conceptual depth and implementation strategy.

Leadership, Houston TX

• Directed one of UH's largest CS organizations, 200+ members and 25+ officers, growing membership by 30%+.
• Secured $3,000+ in sponsorships by leading corporate relations with industry and campus partners.

B.S. in Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics. GPA 3.68/4.0. Coursework in operating systems, data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design, two of which I later taught.