me
Allan Garcia-Zych
Full Stack Engineer
TypeScript React C# SQL Stripe Python

I'm a software engineer with experience building tools for progressive organizations and democratic campaigns. Currently I'm a Full Stack Engineer at DSPolitical, where I work on digital advertising infrastructure that helps campaigns and causes reach voters at scale.

Before that, I was at NGP VAN, building digital organizing tools for campaigns and advocacy organizations. Projects included improving payment processing infrastructure with Stripe and adding new payment methods like Venmo and PayPal, advocacy tools for submitting public comments on government regulations, a customization tool for supporter-facing donation forms, and a refactoring of email unsubscribe workflows.

I studied Physics and Computer Science at MIT. Outside of class I worked with a congressional campaign, built telescope control software, and developed educational games for middle schoolers. I also helped run the largest undergraduate technology club on campus, leading a research competition for high school students.

I grew up in Oceanside, CA and currently live in Washington, DC. I enjoy photography, reading, and traveling as often as I can.

Selected Work
Tragedy of the Commons
A multiplayer educational game that teaches students about shared resource management and the tension between individual incentives and collective outcomes. Built for middle schoolers as part of MIT's education initiative.
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WINTER Telescope
Control software for WINTER (Wide-field Infrared Transient Explorer), a robotic 1-meter telescope at Palomar Observatory that surveys the sky nightly in the near-infrared, including rapid follow-up of gravitational wave events.
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Visualizing the Bechdel Test
An interactive data visualization exploring women's representation in film using the Bechdel Test. Built on FiveThirtyEight's dataset, it lets users explore how movies across genres and decades measure up against three simple criteria.
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Album Timeline
An interactive scatter plot for exploring when your favorite music was released. Search for albums or artists from a dataset of 5,000 records and compare release dates across your listening history.
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