Resume
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336-860-4182 | cheickmouslimamadou@gmail.com | github.com/CheickAmadou | cheickamadou.dev
Education
Columbia University
May 2030
B.S. in Computer Science
New York, New York
The Early College at Guilford / Guilford College (Dual Enrollment)
May 2026
HS GPA: 4.828/4.00 | College GPA: 4.00/4.00 | SAT: 1590 | ACT: 36
Greensboro, North Carolina
Experience
Software Engineer
August 2026 – September 2026
Twinly
Remote
- Building the Windows client for Twinly, a cross-platform desktop AI agent, with an Electron and React interface over a C# agent runtime
- Shipped a pull request improving voice feature clarity; maintain parity with the macOS and iOS clients
Robotics Intern (Gokaraju Lab)
June 2026 – August 2026
North Carolina A&T State University
Greensboro, North Carolina
- Built a ROS 2 control stack in Python and Arduino C for a mobile robot automating BNC cable connection to oscilloscopes
- Designed the robot in Onshape and machined its aluminum chassis with Fusion 360 CAM on a 3-axis CNC mill
Bioinformatics Research Assistant
March 2025 – May 2026
Illinois State University
Remote
- Built Python pipelines to clean FASTA protein sequence data for a phosphorylation site prediction study
- Generated sequence embeddings with the ESM2 language model to train downstream classifiers
Co-Captain & Lead Programmer
March 2025 – May 2026
FTC Robotics Team 6183 | github.com/FTC-6183/FTC6183-DECODE
Greensboro, North Carolina
- Co-led a 14-person team, owning the full Java stack including autonomous routines and driver-control systems
- Won 1st Place Innovate Award at the Southeast Guilford State Qualifier and nominated for FIRST Dean's List
Research Assistant
July 2024 – May 2026
Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (NC A&T)
Greensboro, North Carolina
- Built a PySide6 control interface with live sensor output and logging for a $30,000-grant vesicle filtration system
Math Instructor
June 2024 – April 2026
Mathnasium
Greensboro, North Carolina
- Instructed 20+ students per session in a drop-in learning center, covering material from arithmetic through calculus
Projects
AutoCable | Python, C, ROS 2, Linux | github.com/CheickAmadou/AutoCable
- Engineered teleoperation for a mecanum-drive robot: ROS 2 (Jazzy) nodes on a Jetson Orin Nano bridged over serial to an Arduino Mega 2560 running 50 Hz PID velocity control
- Built a dependency-free browser control room (Python standard library) with virtual joysticks, FPV touch controls, and live Intel RealSense D405 color and depth streams
- Implemented a triple-redundant dead-man safety chain (browser heartbeat, node liveness, serial watchdog) that stops the robot within one second of any failure, verified by fault injection
Technical Skills
Languages: Python, Java, C (Arduino), SQL
Frameworks & Tools: ROS 2, PySide6, Onshape, Fusion 360
Coursework (Guilford College): Data Structures & Algorithms, Operating Systems, Database Systems, Discrete Math, Linear Algebra, Multivariable Calculus, Differential Equations, Modern Algebra
Additional
Awards: Y Combinator Startup School, invite-only cohort, San Francisco (2026); CMU Summer Academy for Math and Science (5% acceptance rate), Best Chemistry Presentation (2025), Jane Street's NYC Mystery Planet (2nd Place), Citadel Trading Campus Competition (1st Place), HOSA State Biotechnology 5th Place, Science Olympiad State Circuit Lab 8th Place
Volunteering/Teaching: Discrete Math Teaching Assistant, Guilford College (2025); designed and taught an online Intro to Python course (SMATH Tutors, 2024), Guilford County Service-Learning Youth Council (Equity Chair), Verizon Innovative Learners (STEM Achievers Volunteer), Tech Refuge (Treasurer)