Ariella Marchuk

CS student @ Portland State, graduating December 2026

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Selected work

The seven-person bsu-tool capstone team, with hand-drawn sticky-note name labels and a Team Lead arrow pointing at Ariella

Me as an

Engineering Team Lead

Team Lead at PSU Computer Science Capstone | March 2026 - August 2026

Seven people, five months, two faculty sponsors, and an open-source MCP server that lets a language model read raw USB traffic and work out what an undocumented device is saying. I ran the sprints, the triage and the reviews, wrote the specs, and left a 21-issue roadmap so the next team could pick it up. We proved it worked by decoding a USB relay's entire command protocol, frame structure and checksum included, off live captures.

Repository Capstone video What I learned running it

Me as a

3D Pipeline Developer

Modeling and Simulation Intern at PLEXSYS | June 2026 - Now

I build low-poly hard-surface 3D assets for simulation software, 50 and counting. Then I got tired of repeating the same setup by hand and built a pipeline for it. Reference images go in, a generative model turns them into a rough mesh, and a Python script I wrote takes that mesh to a clean blockout in Blender. An asset that used to take four or five days now takes about two, and the slow part has moved to texturing, where it belongs.

I also wrapped the generation step in a queued web interface so the rest of the team could use it from their own machines without overwhelming the one GPU it runs on.

Me as a

Project Coordinator

Project Coordinator at VirtualBoss | September 2025 - April 2026

A construction management application written in FoxPro, bought by my employer, with no plan for what came next. I studied how the program was used, wrote the requirements and the migration plan, flew out for the acquisition handoff, and sat between the business owner, acquisitor, and the lead engineer so technical decisions answered genuine industry problems.

Me as a

Sole Developer

Sole Technical Developer at Clique | 2025

My partner had the idea and the business case. I built the thing, from a Figma prototype to a working demo with onboarding, group chat, shared memories and a shared calendar. We placed 2nd at a venture competition on a live demo.

Repository

Walkability scoring tool case study slide showing a scored map of Ashland, Oregon

Me as a

Project Manager

Project Manager at Metro Metrics, Oregon Tech ENGR 307 | March 2026

Five people, one walkability scoring model, and a room of external stakeholders at the end of it. I ran the schedule and the scope, and presented the findings alongside my team in front of stakeholders.

Repository Presentation

Experience

Portland State UniversityB.S. Computer Science2023–2026
Mt. Hood Community CollegeAssociate of Science2021–2023
PLEXSYSModeling & Simulation Intern2026–now
VirtualBossProject Coordinator, Software Modernization2025–2026
GLC HomesOperations & Technology Coordinator2025–2026

Writing

Me as a

Writer

What running an AI-native engineering team actually cost us

Seven students, five months, and a sponsor who made working with AI a requirement from day one.

I asked everyone on my team to write down how they actually worked, then put my own account next to theirs. Seven people had independently arrived at the same handful of practices, and every one of them was learned by running into the failure it prevents. The failures are in there too, including a specification that got written before the group had agreed on its shape, and the two most expensive bugs of the term, both caught by a person who went and tested a claim the tests said was already covered.

I also wrote down what changed about the job of leading. Our daily standup stopped earning its slot once nobody was blocked, and the weekly meeting turned into the whole job.

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