Christopher Arraya

Morehead-Cain Scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill // Builder, founder, engineer.

Virginia, USA

CJA

About

Hi! My name is Christopher Arraya. I'm deeply passionate about artificial intelligence (AI), opinion dynamics, entrepreneurship, and computational social science. Feel free to send me an email!

Work Experience

Well

Feb. 2024 - Present

Software Engineer Intern

Building in the healthcare space.

Encode Justice
Remote

Aug. 2023 - Present

AI Issue Advisory Board Member

Advising on the impact of AI on criminal justice.

Fidutam
Remote

Aug. 2023 - Present

Emerging Technologies Youth Board Member

Advising on AI's role in our social world.

Skalara, Inc.

Apr. 2023 - Apr. 2024

Co-Founder & CEO

Automating project management for tech teams. Backed by the 1789 Fund.

UNC ResNET (Residential Networking)

Aug. 2023 - Apr. 2024

IT Support Technician

Residential Computing Consultant (RCC).

UNC Office of Undergraduate Research
Remote

May 2023 - Aug. 2023

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow

Quantified political polarization on Facebook during the 2019 Bolivian political crisis.

UNC Department of Sociology

Aug. 2022 - May 2023

Research Assistant

Uncovered the impact of protest movements on society using computational methods with the UNC Department of Sociology.

Discover Financial Services
Remote

Jun. 2023

Explore Program Fellow

Learned about Discover's software engineering and business development opportunities.

Jane Street

Jan. 2023

FOCUS Program Fellow

Learned about Jane Street's software engineering, quantitative trading, and business development roles and opportunities.

Jane Street
Hybrid

Jul. 2022

Unboxed Program Fellow

Learn about Jane Street's business development roles, and worked on projects and exercises with Jane Streeters.

George Mason University
Remote

Jun. 2021 - Aug. 2021

Research Assistant

Computationally explored the dynamics that contribute to the success of community gatherings in the Community Informatics Lab (CIL) at George Mason University.

Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2022 - Present
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Sociology

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology

2018 - 2022
High school diploma with a concentration in Computer Science

Skills

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Machine Learning
Fullstack Development
Data Analysis
Research
Sociology
Entrepreneurship

Projects

Synthesis

Combating misinformation and hyperpolarization with long-running intelligent agents and hyperpersonalization. Won Best AI Hack at TreeHacks 2024.

TypeScript
Next.js
Supabase
OpenAI
Pinecone
gpt4all
Python

Donna.ai

AI-powered legal deposition assistant. Automatically match case documents to relevant parts of a deposition. Won 3rd at AGIHouse Gen AI Hackathon @ MIT.

TypeScript
Next.js
TogetherAI
OpenAI
Python
LlamaIndex
FastAPI
Pinecone

Rabbithole

AI agent that generates an optimized learning path from what the user knows and what they want to learn. Creates a custom YouTube playlist that ensures zero knowledge gaps between videos.

TypeScript
Next.js
Supabase
OpenAI
Python
GPT4All
FastAPI
Pinecone

Skalara

Automated project management for tech teams and indie developers. Working on a team of five. Backed by the 1789 Fund.

TypeScript
Next.js
Supabase
PostgreSQL
Prisma
OpenAI
Python

Bolivian Political Polarization Research

Quantifying political polarization on Facebook during the 2019 Bolivian political crisis. Under the supervision of Dr. Santiago Olivella

Python
Pandas
NumPy
Matplotlib
PyTorch

Meetup Study

Towards an Understanding the Critical Success Factors That Drive Local Community Gatherings in U.S. Cities: A Machine-Learning Study on Meetup Data

Python
Pandas
NumPy
Matplotlib
PyTorch

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