Timothy Portuese

International Baccalaureate CAS Project

Created a SAT practice website to help students improve their math scores. Published videos covering difficult SAT math problems on Instagram, gaining over 1,000 followers and more than 750,000 views. Emailed U.S. guidance counselors to share free SAT resources with students.

• Web Development
• SAT Math
• Educational Outreach
• Social Media

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Instagram

International Baccalaureate Extended Essay Research Project

Comparative analysis of GIL-enabled and free-threaded performance across asyncio, multithreading, and multiprocessing in Python 3.14. Investigating how removing the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) affects performance scaling for CPU-bound and I/O-bound tasks.

• Python 3.14
• Concurrency
• Performance Analysis
• Research

Volunteer

Working with Carnegie Mellon University professor Phillip Compeau to assist with the website redesign and help educate and inform up-and-coming programmers.

• Web Development
• Website Redesign
• Programming Education
• Volunteer

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Independent Project · Web Development

Created a website to manage comprehensive records of Nordic skiers across New York. Added user accounts, skier claiming, and team management for coaches; ranked league skiers based on dynamic season race performance; and analyzed large datasets of skiers and race results.

• Web Development
• Database
• Data Analysis
• User Accounts

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