Miguel Garza

Hey! I’m

Miguel Garza.

Software Engineer, ICPC Coach, Competitive Programmer, Problem Solver

Software engineer from Torreón, Coahuila. I’ve interned three times at Meta, plus John Deere and CENACE, building systems that run at very large scale. I also founded and coach my university’s competitive programming club.

Always Improving!

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Miguel Garza at the top of a skyscraper in New York City

Software Engineer Intern

3× Meta

ICPC Mexico Finals 2025

State Champion

3×

Meta SWE internships

100+

students mentored in algorithms

6

teams coached to ICPC Mexico Finals

Experience

Where I’ve built things

Five internships in three years, from product features at Meta to forecasting models for Mexico’s power grid.

  1. 2.56%MAPE

    AI Engineer Intern @ CENACE

    Sep – Dec 2025 · Coahuila, MX

    • Built a Temporal Fusion Transformer that forecasts electrical demand from weather and load data.
    • Wrote the end-to-end Python pipeline with Darts: data processing, training and forecasting.
    • Reached 2.56% MAPE with interpretable, probabilistic forecasts for power-system planning.
    • Python
    • Darts
    • TFT

  2. 2B+events / min

    Software Engineer Intern @ Meta

    Media Metrics · May – Aug 2025 · Seattle, WA

    • Built an internal tool that handles over 2 billion video events per minute across Reels, video, live and ads.
    • Covers every app in Meta’s family: Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, Messenger and Oculus.
    • Turns trillions of daily events into views and watch time, metrics used for monetization and analytics.
    • Data pipelines
    • Scale

  3. +0.7182%engagement

    Software Engineer Intern @ Meta

    Professional Dashboard · May – Aug 2024 · New York, NY

    • Shipped a feature to millions of users with cross-functional partners.
    • Led the experiment review for ProDash translation, which launched and lifted engagement by 0.7182%.
    • Proposed and built improvements to the original plan.
    • Bloks
    • Hack
    • EntSQL

  4. Software Engineer Intern @ John Deere

    Control Tower · Jan – May 2024 · Coahuila, MX

    • Worked on a worldwide supply-chain application.
    • Delivered production features accepted by the product owner and stakeholders.
    • Contributed to every phase of analysis and development in an agile team.
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • Elasticsearch
    • Docker

  5. Software Engineer Intern @ Meta

    CAA New Platforms · Jun – Aug 2023 · Menlo Park, CA

    • Built Ans2Ask, a full-stack Q&A app, from scratch with guidance from Meta engineers.
    • React and Node/Express front to back, Sequelize for data, Python for the ML models.
    • React
    • Node.js
    • Express
    • Python
Leadership

Coaching the next ICPC teams

Competitive Programming Club ITLag

Founder, President & Head Coach · Sep 2022 – Present

I started the club at Instituto Tecnológico de la Laguna and coach it: data structures, dynamic programming, graph theory and C++, from first contest to regional finals.

members mentored
100+
teams to ICPC Mexico Finals
6
teams to ICPC Texas Regional 2025
3
A club training session with students working on laptopsTeam EspantaBugs in front of the TecNM La Laguna sign
Awards

Competitive programming record

18 awards and honors in programming and math. The most recent six:

  • State Champion

    Coahuila

    ICPC Mexico Finals 2025

    Team gatOS · Nov 2025

  • 1st

    of 675 teams

    Coding Cup TecNM 2025

    Team gatOS · Oct 2025

  • 2nd

    of 20 teams

    ICPC TXST Texas–Mexico 2025

    Team EspantaBugs · Apr 2025

  • 1st

    of 183 teams

    8° ITS San Pedro Contest

    Team Usurpadores · Nov 2024

  • 1st

    of 150 teams

    4° ITSA Code Contest

    Team Usurpadores · Oct 2024

  • 3rd

    of 625 teams

    Coding Cup TecNM 2024

    Team Usurpadores · Oct 2024

All 18 awards & honors
  1. State Champion CoahuilaICPC Mexico Finals 2025 · gatOS
  2. 1st of 675 teamsCoding Cup TecNM 2025 · gatOS
  3. 2nd of 20 teamsICPC TXST Texas–Mexico 2025 · EspantaBugs
  4. 1st of 183 teams8° ITS San Pedro Contest · Usurpadores
  5. 1st of 150 teams4° ITSA Code Contest · Usurpadores
  6. 3rd of 625 teamsCoding Cup TecNM 2024 · Usurpadores
  7. 24th of 295 teamsGran Premio de México ICPC · EspantaBugs
  8. 5th of 684 teamsCoding Cup TecNM 2022 · EspantaBugs
  9. 16th of 92Donald Knuth Annual Programming Contest
  10. 3rd of 160 teams7° ITS San Pedro Contest · EspantaBugs
  11. 135th of 271 teamsGran Premio de México ICPC · EspantaBugs
  12. 2nd of 42Google Kick Start Round B, Mexico
  13. 9th of 110Liga de Programación, Phase 2 (omegaUp)
  14. 2nd of 300+ITLag Computer Systems admission exam
  15. Gold medalCoahuila Regional Math Olympiad
  16. Honorable mentionII Mexican Math Olympiad (OMMEB)
  17. Honorable mentionXVIII Mexican Math Olympiad (ONMAPS)
  18. Honorable mentionXXVI Pre-National Pre-University Math Tournament
Projects

Things I’ve made

  • Ans2Ask

    A Q&A network where asking costs points and answering earns them, so people keep helping each other. Built from scratch during my 2023 Meta internship.

    • React
    • Node.js
    • Express
    • Sequelize
    • Python ML
    Code for Ans2Ask

  • Competitive Programming Reference

    My team’s library of classic algorithms and data structures: graphs, geometry, strings, number theory and combinatorics. We used it to climb from 135th to 24th at the ICPC Gran Premio de México in six months.

    • C++
    Code for Competitive Programming Reference

  • Conquering Seattle

    Full-stack real estate site I built to learn PHP, JavaScript and SQL from scratch, with validated forms and full CRUD.

    • PHP
    • JavaScript
    • MySQL
    Code for Conquering Seattle

Languages

  • C++
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Hack / PHP
  • Java
  • SQL

Frameworks & tools

  • React
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • Docker
  • Elasticsearch
  • Darts
  • Git
  • MySQL

Spoken

  • Spanish (native)
  • English (fluent)

Education

Instituto Tecnológico de la Laguna

B.S. Computer Systems Engineering
Graduated Dec 2025

91 / 100GPA

Contact

Let’s talk.

Open to software engineering roles. The fastest way to reach me is email.

miguelgrza.12@gmail.com