Ludo DeAnda

Ludo (any/all; legally, Daniel) is a software engineer, designer, and educator with a decade of experience writing code for companies, groups, hackathons, and personal projects. After graduating from one of the most competitive high schools in the United States as a valedictorian, he studied computer science as an honors student and National Merit Scholar at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he earned his bachelor's degree summa cum laude and with additional major-specific and university-wide honors. A few months later, he began working for CodeDay, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering under-served students interested in pursuing a future in computing by guiding them through hands-on programming projects. Since then, Ludo has spent hundreds of hours on video calls helping scores of students, many of whom have praised his ability to impart both intuition and deep understanding, make their first-ever contributions to over a dozen open-source programming projects.