Alexandra Paskhaver

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

Feel free to reach out!

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

Creative Projects

The Search for the Silver Lining

Skills: creative consulting, editing

The Word Search

Skills: scriptwriting, editing

Online Course

Skills: video recording, video editing, research, PhotoShop

  • Created the best-selling Introduction to Political Science course on Udemy
  • Produced 5 hours of course material (with jokes!) to engage 1000+ students
  • Designed 5 course logos with PhotoShop on request for another instructor

Selected Columns

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.

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.

Hire Me

Want to work together? Find my resume and contact info here.