Former tech club president becomes Google engineer

David UlloaAlumnus David Ulloa ’25 is a software engineer at Google.

He was selected for the coveted role even before walking across the commencement stage this past May and recently began his job at the tech giant.

Ulloa is a force to reckon with. Since his freshman year, Ulloa hit the ground running at FIU. He wasted no time getting involved in FIU's largest student tech organization, INIT FIU. He later served in two executive board positions, eventually becoming the club's president. He completed internships at Microsoft and Google.

He developed expertise in Artificial Intelligence and large language models, participated in three hackathons (codefests in which people collaborate to build software projects) and created an impressive portfolio that caught the attention of folks at Google. Ulloa graduated with his bachelor's in computer science in only three years.

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