Hey there! π
I'm Sancho.
Developer. Founder. F1 Enthusiast.
Undergraduate @ 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. This fall, I'm interning 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
Full Stack Engineering Intern
Stored embeddings with pgvector on Azure. Enhanced searches using HNSW indexing. Developed context-aware AI chatbot with Hugging Face.
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.
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.