Timothy McAllister - Personal Website

Education

University of Central Florida (UCF), Orlando, FL
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Honors Student, Burnett Honors College
LEAD Scholars Academy Graduate
National Merit Scholar
Graduated: May 2026
GPA: 4.0

Project Manager & Developer — UCF Senior Design (Sep 2025 – May 2026)

Led a senior design team that built a cognitive linguistic therapy iOS app from scratch, in partnership with a clinical speech pathologist
Built with React Native and Expo, providing domain-specific exercises personalized to each patient via a Smoothed Moving Average algorithm
Developed therapist-side features allowing connected clinicians to customize difficulty, assign custom questions, and view patient results
Owned account management architecture (patient–therapist linking), React Native app setup, TestFlight compilation, and therapist-side layout/customization logic

Creator and Full Stack Software Engineer (Oct 2023 – Present)

Built a full stack web application using React, NodeJS, AWS Lambda, and DynamoDB
Trained finetuned ChatGPT models to identify and reverse Russell Conjugations in text
Leveraged the OpenAI API to query the model, saving results and formatting them

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Founder and President (Oct 2022 – Mar 2025)

Established and led a Registered Student Organization at UCF with over 60 members
Prepared and delivered speeches at public events to promote humane tech practices

Front-End Web Development Intern (Sept 2025 – Present)

Served as front-end web development intern at U.S. Hunger
Leveraged CSS, JS, HTML, and Wordpress Tools to maintain/create websites for various hunger projects

CS Team Computer Scientist/Researcher (Aug 2024 – Present)

Served as lead computer scientist on an interdisciplinary team of psychologists and researchers
Designed cognitive experiments and automated data processing with PsychoPy and Pavlovia

Teaching Assistant for Intro to Computing with C (Aug 2023 – Dec 2023)

Evaluated programming assignments and graded exams, providing detailed feedback
Coordinated office hours, advised students, and resolved doubts about course materials

Team Lead (Nov 2021 – Aug 2023)

Trained new hires, delegated tasks, and organized operations in various zones
Professionally resolved customer complaints and communicated clearly with employees

HTML CSS JavaScript TypeScript Python Java C

React React Native Expo NodeJS AWS Lambda DynamoDB OpenAI API iOS / TestFlight

Fine-tuning LLMs Project Management Debugging Complex Systems Team Collaboration Public Speaking Time Management Mobile App Development