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ccolon at mit dot edu

Hey! I'm Cristián, a senior at MIT studying Computer Science. I love building things that involve ML, cybersecurity, graphics, or probability. When I'm not coding, you'll find me practicing kickboxing, playing racing games, or at the poker table with some friends.

My Projects

Things I've built that I'm proud of.

ThreatWarden: Security Vulnerability Aggregator and LLM Query Engine thumbnail

ThreatWarden: Security Vulnerability Aggregator and LLM Query Engine

February 2026

A continuously-running, self-hosted vulnerability intelligence CLI tool that aggregates CVE and exploit data from six authoritative sources, stores it in PostgreSQL, and exposes it through a conversational LLM interface with self-critique verification.

PythonPostgreSQLasyncio+5 more
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Particle Simulation Engine

August 2025

Developed a GPU-accelerated particle simulation visualizing emergent behaviors and ecosystem dynamics among thousands of species.

C++OpenGLGLSL (Compute Shaders)
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Formlabs Hackathon: Sales & Services AI Agents

August 2025

Dual AI agents (Rhys for Sales, Pete for Services) built with Streamlit and Gemini. Supports RAG via Vertex AI, Google Search fallback, Zapier lead/case creation, and BigQuery-powered printer log lookups.

PythonStreamlitGoogle Gemini+3 more
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UFC Match Outcome Predictor with Random Forest

March 2025

A data-driven system that collects and integrates UFC match statistics, engineers rich historical and contextual features, and trains Random Forest models to predict match outcomes with calibrated confidence.

PythonpandasNumPy+6 more
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BluffBot: Poker Bot with CFR and Reinforcement Learning

January 2025

Developed iterative Bounty Hold'em agents culminating in a neural policy that uses card/bet embeddings and action masking; includes a local engine to pit bots against each other.

PythonPyTorcheval7+3 more
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Reinforcement Learning / LSTM Stock Predictor

May 2024

End-to-end ML/RL project that aggregates MSFT 60‑minute price data and StockGeist sentiment, trains an LSTM price predictor, and evaluates trading strategies including a risk-aware rules engine and PPO reinforcement learning.

PythonTensorFlow / KerasStable-Baselines3 (PPO)+7 more
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About Me

Experience

Software Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks

Incoming Summer 2026

Software Engineering Intern @ Nasdaq

2026 - GenAI Platform Team

ML & Cybersecurity Researcher @ MIT CSAIL

2024-2026 - ALFA Group

Software Engineering Intern @ Formlabs

2024 & 2025 - PreForm 3D Print Preparation Software

Course Staff Assistant

2025 - MIT 6.C01 Machine Learning

VR Researcher @ MIT Media Lab

2024 - Responsive Environmentss

Education

B.S. Computer Science and Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology2026

Technical Skills

Proficient

PythonC/C++JavaScriptMachine LearningThree.jsReact

Working

GolangC#RISC-V AssemblyUnityDockerSQL

Learning

OpenGLComputational GeometryPostgreSQL

Skills by Domain

languages

PythonJavaScriptC/C++GolangC#RISC-V AssemblySQL

ML

TensorFlowPyTorchNumPyPandasscikit-learnStable Baselines3Vertex AI

Graphics

Three.jsOpenGLUnity3D GraphicsComputational Geometry

Web Development

ReactNode.jsJavaScriptStreamlit

Tools

RedisDockerAWSMilvusVirtualBoxMetasploitGitVS CodeCLionPostgreSQL

Math

Game TheoryProbabilityStatisticsCalculusLinear AlgebraAlgorithms & Data Structures

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