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Landon Smith

Computer Engineering & Electrical Engineering Honors Student @ UT San Antonio

Former Lead Engineer, Designer, Driver, and Programmer for FTC Team 24764 Twisted Transistors

Official Programming Mentor for FTC Team 24764 Twisted Transistors

landon.smith@my.utsa.edu

About Me

I am a Computer Engineering student at the University of Texas at San Antonio with a 4.0 GPA and Honors College standing. I specialize in Java development, robotics programming, embedded systems, and network infrastructure. I am passionate about engineering systems that are clean, efficient, and reliable, and well-organized.

Skills

Experience

Robotics Mentor — FTC Team 24764

Flour Bluff High School • Aug 2025 – Present
  • Mentored robotics programming and documentation with advanced Java experience.
  • Maintained the autonomous and tele-op robot codebase.
  • Improved development efficiency by up to 90%.

Rental Equipment & Customer Service & Employee Trainer

Holiday Beach Rentals • Apr 2024 – Present
  • Managed reservations and equipment inventory.
  • Repaired canopy systems, extending lifespan by 6 months.
  • Trained new employees on all equipment and practices in less than one week

Lead Engineer & Programmer — FTC Team 24764

Flour Bluff HS • Aug 2024 – May 2025
  • Led team to UIL State Semi-Finals (3rd Place, Division 5A).
  • Sole developer of a full robotics codebase with complete documentation.
  • Cut development time by 90% with an emphasis on ease of maintainability, with feature integration times of less than 6 hours

Lead Livestream Producer

Flour Bluff Sports Information • Aug 2024 – May 2025
  • Produced high-quality livestreams for football games.
  • Boosted stream quality (2×), viewership (1000%), and retention (50%).

Home Projects

Home Network Infrastructure

  • Built a secure LAN with malware protection and firewall mitigation.
  • Reduced ping by 10×, boosted speeds by 5×, and cut malicious activity by 99%.

Embedded Systems & Servers

  • Hosted Docker-based web servers on Raspberry Pi 5.
  • Deployed Home Assistant and an LLM front-end on local hardware.
  • Managed a NAS with OpenMediaVault and an ad-blocking DNS service.

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