Hey there! π
I'm Sancho.
Developer. Founder. F1 Enthusiast.
Sophomore @ UC San Diego π±
Driving innovation with impact. ποΈ
Hi! I'm Sancho Syquia. I spent most of my life in Manila, Philippines π΅π, with some early years in Hong Kong ππ°, before moving to UC San Diego π± πΊπΈ for college.
Growing up in a developing country, I've always cared deeply about giving back. Since 2020, I've co-led my nonprofit, Adaptech, to bring tech and education to low-income Filipino students.
I love how tech revolutionizes education, healthcare, and the environment. Last summer, I interned at Mercury Alert AI, where we transformed patient caregiving with AI. In the fall, I interned at Spade AI to build an AI engine for real-time market insights and innovation.
Building on my internship experience, I co-founded and engineered the AI backbone of Veida AI, an app that enhances student learning with AI-generated study plans, notes, flashcards, and quizzes.
Besides tech: I enjoy F1 ποΈ, beaches ποΈ, poker π, badminton πΈ, cooking π, and scuba diving π€Ώ!
B.S. Mathematics & Computer Science
Double Minors in Finance & Data Science
CSE Society - Website Developer
ACM - Backend Project Engineer
AI Student Collective - Project Developer
Incoming Software Engineer Intern
Summer 2025
Co-Founder & AI Engineer
Worked with 3 engineers on an AI-driven study app. Integrated OCR, OpenAI, Stripe, Clerk, and MongoDB. Deployed Flask and Next.js.
Full Stack Engineering Intern
Stored embeddings with pgvector on Azure. Enhanced searches using HNSW indexing. Developed context-aware AI chatbot with Hugging Face.
Software Engineering Fellow
Building 5 AI projects. Participating in hackathons. Working in a team. Receiving professional coaching.
Software Engineering & Machine Learning Intern
Converted portal app from React Native to Expo. Migrated NoSQL to SQL databases. Built AWS call-for-help function.
Software Engineering & Data Analytics Intern
Wrote SQL queries and set up Tableau dashboards. Automated credit risk data scoring. Constructed RESTful APIs for UI integration.
Co-Founder & President
Led team of 20 students. Acquired $2.3K+ to refurbish and donate 49 used computers to local schools. Taught 951 students in 18 tech workshops.
Tech Lead & Founding Member
Piloted IB non-profit organization. Built WordPress website with 1M views from 196 countries. Taught IB Math and CS to 50+ students.
Dinosaur Species Detector. Classifies images of 15 species with 80.1% accuracy.
Skills: TensorFlow, Keras, ResNet152V2, Streamlit, Python
Dental Appointment Scheduler and Prescription Manager. SHA-256 Password Security.
Skills: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, PHP, MySQL
Minecraft Bedrock Server. 40 virtual team members. 1.4M+ players. $2K+ profits.
Skills: PHP, MySQL, SFTP, YAML, PocketMine-MP API
Global Directory for COVID-19 Beneficiaries. 8 college teammates. 14K views.
Skills: HTML, CSS, React, Firebase
Received PADI Open Water Diver Certification.
Adaptech Philippines was selected as 1 of 41 semi-finalists chosen from 491 entries.
Team Magis won 3rd of 43 teams from 23 countries for proposing a sustainable air-to-water device.