Computer science student building data and AI skills

Beats By Dre logoCurrently an Extern @Beats By Dre

I turn raw data into insights and prototypes, using Python, SQL, n8n, and visualization to test ideas and learn fast.

Work samples

Projects include consumer insights from Beats by Dre reviews, AI agent dashboards built with n8n for Wayfair, sports analytics for NY Racing, and sustainability analysis using SQL and RAG pipelines.

  • Wayfair AI Agent Engineering for Business Intelligence Externship
    Wayfair AI Agent Engineering for Business Intelligence Externship
    Wayfair logoWayfair · Jun 2026✅ Verified by Extern

    Wayfair AI Agent Engineering for Business Intelligence Externship

    Learn one of the most in-demand skills shaping the future of work: building AI agents. In this externship, you’ll step into the role of an AI Agent Developer and use n8n to design agents that think, plan, and act on real data — automating insights, decisions, and workflows. No coding experience required. By the end, you’ll create a live dashboard powered by your own AI agents, gaining hands-on experience that applies to any role or industry — from marketing and consulting to product management and data science.

    Top performerAI Workflow DesignAI Agent DevelopmentWeb Scraping & Data ExtractionPresentation Skills

About me

I turn raw data into insights and prototypes, using Python, SQL, n8n, and visualization to test ideas and learn fast.

I am Lazaro Valdez, a sophomore Computer Science student at the University of South Florida focused on data analytics. I build data pipelines, dashboards, and AI-enabled tools using Python, SQL, PostgreSQL, pandas, NumPy, and LLM APIs. I completed externships with Beats by Dre, Wayfair, Breaking Games, and NY Racing to practice extracting insights from consumer feedback, designing AI agents, and turning messy CSVs into analytics databases. I am working to grow technical skills and hands-on experience as I complete my degree.

Externships

Beats by Dre Data Analytics: Qualitative & Quantitative Insights Externship

Beats By Dre

Experience

AI Automation Extern

Wayfair · April 2026 – June 2026

Data Engineering Extern

Breaking Games · June 2026 – Aug 2026

Data Analytics Extern

Beats by Dre · Oct 2025 – Dec 2025

Education

University of South Florida

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, GPA: 3.31/4.00 · Class of 2028

Skills

PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptSQLC/C++Next.jsReactPostgreSQLSQLitePrismaVector DatabaseLLM APIsRAG PipelinesDimensional ModelingpandasNumPyMatplotlibSeabornTextBlobPlotlyPydanticCheerioGitDockerCI/CDn8nREST APIs & OAuthTableauExcel

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Beats by Dre Data Analytics: Qualitative & Quantitative Insights Externship

A Beats by Dre externship focused on extracting qualitative and quantitative consumer insights from feedback and reviews using Python and AI tools.

PythonAI & MLData Analysis

Overview

The externship analyzed consumer feedback and review data for wireless audio products, combining AI-assisted text analysis with quantitative cleaning and visualization. Work included pain-point extraction turned into an interactive dashboard, a four-column AIDA customer journey map, statistical analysis of survey segments, sentiment scoring of reviews, and a slide deck plus dashboard presenting

Beats by Dre Data Analytics: Qualitative & Quantitative Insights Externship
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What I've accomplished

I produced a live interactive dashboard from AI-extracted pain points, a four-column AIDA customer journey map, cleaned and analyzed survey segments with charts and thematic coding, sentiment-scored review data, and a Gamma slide deck plus Claude dashboard with a recorded presentation.

Project breakdown

✅ Verified by Extern

Wayfair AI Agent Engineering for Business Intelligence Externship

Learn one of the most in-demand skills shaping the future of work: building AI agents. In this externship, you’ll step into the role of an AI Agent Developer and use n8n to design agents that think, plan, and act on real data — automating insights, decisions, and workflows. No coding experience required. By the end, you’ll create a live dashboard powered by your own AI agents, gaining hands-on experience that applies to any role or industry — from marketing and consulting to product management and data science.

AI Workflow DesignAI Agent DevelopmentWeb Scraping & Data ExtractionPresentation Skills

Overview

The work built multiple n8n-based AI agents and integrated them into a market intelligence pipeline, producing visual outputs, automated reports, and a dashboard-ready HTML assembly. Deliverables included moodboard images, downloadable trend and competitor reports, a working content agent, and an integrated dashboard output. The work was awarded Top Performer by Wayfair.

Wayfair AI Agent Engineering for Business Intelligence Externship
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What I've accomplished

I produced production-ready n8n workflows that generated moodboard images, downloadable trend PDFs, an HTML/PDF competitor report, an improved content agent I re-engineered, and an integrated dashboard-ready HTML output.

Top performer

Project breakdown

✅ Verified by Extern

SQL & Database Architecture Externship with Breaking Games

Turn six messy CSVs into an analytics database and a Q4 dashboard that drives real business decisions. SQL + Claude.

Analytics Database DesignData AnalysisSQL FundamentalsData Storytelling

Overview

The externship consolidated six messy Shopify CSV files into a structured analytics database and a Q4 dashboard. The work mapped the available e-commerce data sources, designed schema changes, and prepared queries for downstream reporting. Deliverables included a cleaned relational schema and query-ready tables.

SQL & Database Architecture Externship with Breaking Games
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What I've accomplished

I worked with Breaking Games marketing leadership to turn open-ended business questions into data-backed recommendations, building a 6-channel attribution taxonomy across $37,200 in ad spend and a campaign return on investment (ROI) ranking across 7 live Meta campaigns to identify underperforming spend.

Project breakdown

ResuStack AI

Building a full-stack application on Next.js App Router, pairing 13 type-safe server actions and 10 API routes with a 76-component TypeScript frontend; built an 18-model PostgreSQL schema (Prisma) to power a job-listing aggregation pipeline across 4 pluggable sources validated by a CI suite of 284 t

Next.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLPrismapgvectorLLM APIs