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CS @ UW Paul G. Allen School · AI / ML

Juan Alfonso Vega Sol

AI/ML engineer and builder. 2× 1st-place hackathon winner and founder of Answr and ZapTap. I take ideas from model to deployed product.

Seeking Summer 2027 internships in AI, ML & LLMs · open to software engineering

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  • Community Impact Award

    ThinkCity 2026 Smart City Hackathon

    2026 · SkySAR

  • 1st Place

    El Puerto de Liverpool AI Challenge

    2025 · IdentifEye

  • 1st Place

    Atrato Financial Hackathon

    2024 · FinanceAI

  • Founder

    Answr

    AI voice agent · <30 s response

  • Founder

    ZapTap

    NFC review cards

  • Education

    UW Allen School · B.S. CS

    Expected June 2028

All 12 projects →
IdentifEye title slide: product identification with embeddings and LLM recommendations, by team HanLovers for Liverpool
1st Place · HackMX 6th EditionAI / ML

IdentifEye

Snap a photo of any product and get the closest match from Liverpool's catalog, plus LLM-powered recommendations.

Vertex AI · GPT-4 Vision · OpenCV · Flask

SkySAR title slide: AI swarm drone search and rescue
Community Impact Award · ThinkCity 2026AI / ML

SkySAR

AI drone-swarm concept for search and rescue that flags people, vehicles and smoke in aerial imagery on a live dashboard.

Python · Gemini Vision · Computer vision · Web dashboard

Answr landing page: “Stop losing customers to missed calls”, next to a sample SMS conversation
VentureAI / ML · Full-stack

Answr AI Agent

Voice and SMS agent that texts back missed calls and books appointments, cutting first response from hours to under 30 seconds.

Claude API · n8n · Supabase · Next.js

Can AI Spot a Lie? home page: the algorithm vs. the clickbait crisis
Presenter · Making Learning Visible (Dec 2025)AI / ML

Can AI Spot a Lie?

Fake-news classifier trained on 44,000+ labeled articles, with a dashboard of its metrics and the words behind each prediction.

Python · scikit-learn · NLTK · Pandas

  1. Late 2025 — Present

    Founder & Software Engineer · Answr

    AI automation agency for local service businesses on Seattle's Eastside (Bellevue, Redmond, Sammamish, Kirkland).

  2. Aug 2026 — Present

    Founder · ZapTap

    Business selling custom NFC review cards and tabletop displays that let local businesses collect Google reviews with one tap.

  3. Oct 2026 — Present

    Software & AI Team Member (AI/ML) · Fitness Tech

    Student-led Engineering Student Organization at UW (40+ members, 6 projects) that builds wearable technology to streamline athletic training metrics. Faculty advisor: Prof. Sep Makhsous (ECE).

  4. Aug 2023 — Jan 2024

    Software Engineer · SAMLA

    Financial web platform for inventory, profitability and payments.

Let's talk.

I'm looking for a Summer 2027 internship in AI, ML or LLMs, and I'm also open to software engineering roles.