Summary
Juan Varela is an applied physicist and educator with eight years of experience combining computational research, laboratory instruction, and data-driven process development. He holds an M.S. in Applied Physics from UMass Boston and currently supports physics lab courses at Bates College, managing equipment, grading, and TA coordination while contributing to curriculum development. Juan’s background spans national-lab internships and particle-physics research—work that produced visualizations and contributed to an arXiv preprint—and he has practical skills in numerical analysis, automation, and scientific computing. Outside academia he teaches game development and builds C# Unity projects, reflecting a rare blend of computational physics expertise and hands-on software craftsmanship. Colleagues value his knack for optimizing lab workflows and turning exploratory research (e.g., Wolfram Physics Project investigations) into reusable tools.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Diseñador y Programador de Simuladores Virtuales Videojuegos y programación, Diseñador y Programador de Simuladores Virtuales Videojuegos y programación at Primera Escuela de Arte Multimedial DaVinci
systems engineering ingenieria en sistemas de informacion, systems engineering ingenieria en sistemas de informacion at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Spanish, English