Michael Hein

At Guardian Premier Solutions, I develop and test application features, build Python and SQL applications and data pipelines, and investigate integration issues. I also connect systems through REST APIs and webhooks and build KPI dashboards and reporting workflows in Palantir Foundry, where I earned the Palantir Foundry Developer Certification.

In my LabLens project, I built a semantic retrieval backend that ingests Google Slides through Drive APIs and returns ranked results with slide citations. I used Pydantic models and wrote pytest tests with mocked APIs and temporary databases.

For my Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe AI project, I implemented a custom game-state representation with legal transitions, forced-move rules, and edge-case handling. I used simulation-based move evaluation in a game-playing agent.

As a STEM CEL Tutor at Monterey Peninsula College, I tutored Python, Java, and C++ programming, along with object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms. I’m pursuing an M.S. in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin.