Alexandra Paskhaver

Hello! I'm Alex. I love programming, most often in React / TypeScript. I also write news.

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Technical Projects

Rutgers RUMobile

Technologies used: React Native, React Native Testing Library

  • Collaborated with a team of developers and designers to serve 3,000+ users across iOS and Android
  • Built 20+ components to display food details and profiles, welcome users, and more
  • Improved test coverage of functions by 12% to limit errors
  • Upgraded dependencies to ensure codebase was up-to-date

File Transcription Research with Professor Ananda Gunawardena

Technologies used: Python, Flask, spaCy, Gensim

  • Built a website where a user could upload video or audio files, transcribe them, and perform searches for files containing keywords or topics
  • Researched and utilized natural language processing libraries to analyze video transcriptions for keywords suggesting idea or subject transitions
  • Improved test coverage to and maintained it at more than 80%
  • Automatically displayed results in easy-to-read visual format

Journalism Work

Nancy On Norwalk

Writing occasional news articles since November 2025.

Cagle

Since February 2024, my weekly column has been distributed by Cagle newspaper syndicate.

Delaware County Daily Times

Writing a biweekly humor column since January 2023.

Wrote a few real news articles in 2025 and 2026.

Gettysburg Times

Wrote a weekly humor column from January 2023 to February 2024.

Wrote a real news article in 2025.

The SAS Honors Program Blog

Wrote a weekly humor column from October 2022 to May 2023.

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