hi, i'm mateo. i build things.

I'm an engineer currently interested in AI agents, fullstack development, and cloud infrastructure. Prev SWE @ Berkeley Lab, Prev SWE Research @ CSUEB, and Prev SWE @ sf.tools. Let's connect on LinkedIn and GitHub!

Software Engineer Intern June 2026 - August 2026
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Software Research Engineer Intern January 2026 - May 2026
California State University, East Bay
Software Engineer August 2025 - April 2026
The San Francisco Tooling Company - Developer Tooling Company
Multi-model coding agent with Perplexity web search. Token-efficient project generation—often under 10¢ per project. Winner of HackHayward 2026.
A agentic tamagotchi desktop pet that you feed. If you ignore, then bad things happen...
A full-stack web platform leveraging Neo4j knowledge graphs optimizing long-context LLM performance and reducing hallucinations.
Visual speech recognition and lip-reading with MediaPipe, OpenCV, and PyTorch for accessibility-focused speech pattern identification.
Java app for user-generated study sets, personalized learning paths, and interactive review.
GPilot: A Full-Stack GraphRAG Chat System for Grounded Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs 2026
Mateo Alado, Xiantian Zhou, et al. 1st IEEE Conference on Generative AI for Secure Systems (GAISS)
B.S. Computer Science August 2024 - December 2026
California State University, East Bay
A.S. Computer Science August 2022 -June 2024
Chabot College