Michele Autorino

Statistics & CS @ UIUC

Outside of school i enjoy: soccer, jiu-jitsu, hiking, nature documentaries, rom-coms, meeting people

Experience

Software Engineer Intern @ PlayTogether — Aug 2025-Dec 2025
TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Keycloak auth. Reduced API latency 10%, login errors 20%.

Researcher @ Illinois Geometry Lab — Sep 2025–Dec 2025
Built Python data pipelines to study skill vs. luck across tens of thousands of games.

Software Engineer Intern @ Electronic Visualization Lab — May 2025–Aug 2025
C++/Unreal Engine real-time 3D visualization. Achieved 2–3× frame-rate improvement.

Software Developer @ UIUC Physics Dept — Jan 2025–May 2025
JavaScript signal processing extension for FPGA rigs used by 100+ students.

Projects

  • degenstockHackPrinceton. AWS-hosted FastAPI service for prediction market analytics with FAISS embeddings, arbitrage detection, and React dashboards.
  • Distributed Cache in GoSystem Programming Honors Section project where my friend and I are building a distributed caching system across multiple cpu cores and a raspberry pi
  • SlopCopUsed GeminiAPI to build an extenstion that blocks absolute slop from ever hitting your eyes on youtube