Hi I'mMercedes Xiong

Full-stack developerCS @ UT DallasVP @ ACM UTD

I build things people actually use — most recently SAGE, an AI advising platform that has helped 2,000+ UT Dallas students plan their degrees.

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Selected work

Things I built

Five projects, from an AI advising platform used by thousands of students to a stargazing forecaster. Open any card for the full case study.

By the numbers

2,000+

students served by SAGE

180+

ACM officers supported

divisions coordinated

200+

active ACM members

The route so far

Stops along the way

01
CS @ UT Dallas
School
Computer science major, learning how systems fit together — and how companies compartmentalize information in the products people use every day.
02
Officer, ACM @ UTD
Community
Joined the largest tech community on campus and started running workshops and events for students trying to break into tech.
03
Vice President, ACM @ UTD
Current
Supporting 180+ officers across 9 divisions and 200+ active members, keeping fun, useful programming shipping every semester.
04
Built SAGE
Shipped
Led an AI advising platform to 2,000+ UT Dallas students — transcript parsing, degree evaluation, and a RAG chatbot for course planning.
05
Next stop
Open road
Looking for a summer 2026 software engineering internship where I can build things people actually use.

Under the hood

Skills & tools

Languages

Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Java
SQL
C++

Frontend

React
Next.js
React Native
Vue.js
styled-components
Three.js

Backend & data

Node.js
FastAPI
AWS Lambda
Firebase
Redis
Pinecone
LangChain

Design & tools

Figma
Git
Vercel
Plaid API
Gemini
Prototyping

Off the clock

Playground

Photos, sketches, and detours. There is no deeper meaning to any of this.

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About

The driver

Thanks so much for coming to check me out. I'm a CS major at UT Dallas and an aspiring full-stack developer.

I love trying to understand how companies compartmentalize their information on websites and apps — and I believe life is greater with hash tables (most of the time).

In my free time you can find me reading, sketching buildings, or listening to indie music, or the 80s, or the 70s, or the 60s (the list goes on).