Nicolas Santana

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201 Wiltshire Dr, Athens, GA, 30605 — (770) 560-2826 — nicolasantonio1511@gmail.com

Hey! My name is Nicolas Santana, and I currently attend the University of Georgia, Athens as an undergraduate majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Mathematics.

Education

University of Georgia
3.81
Bachelor of Science
May 2026

Honors and Awards

Dean's List
2023
Dean's List
2022

Skills

Leadership and Experience

Code Instructor - Code Ninjas
August 2023 - March 2024

Projects

Personal Resume Website Development - Personal Project

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  • Built a fully responsive personal website using HTML and CSS
  • Optimized the site for mobile and desktop devices, achieving a 100% mobile-friendly score on Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test
  • Reduced page load times through efficient CSS styling, resulting in a faster and more user-friendly experience

Connect Four Game Development - Personal Project

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  • Designed and implemented a Connect Four game using Java, handling grids of different lengths and accounting for potential errors
  • Optimized the gameplay logic, reducing the code complexity by approximately 25% while maintaining game functionality for 2-player mode
  • Debugged and tested the program with 20+ simulated game scenarios to ensure flawless execution across various cases

Weather Geolocator App - Personal Project

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  • Integrated three complex APIs to fetch and process location-specific air quality index, current temperature, and a 3-day weather forecast
  • Integrated better UI-UX features by displaying weather-based images for each forecasted day
  • Used data structures to store data efficiently to improve API response processing by 10%