Hey, I'm Ethan

4th year CS student @ Seattle University, Minor in Finance
Contract Software Developer & AI Research Engineer
Portrait of Ethan Gaspar

Experience

AI Research Engineer

Seattle University Tech Ethics Initiative

Febuary 2026-Present

  • • Assisting the development of a novel metric to quantify creative expression in LLM outputs by sourcing data for model training.

Contract Software Developer

Earth Economics (Capstone)

September 2025-Present

  • • Building data pipelines to generate relevance grades on research articles.
  • • Utilizing ScopusAPI to fetch journal data.
  • • Leveraging LLMs models to drive relevancy score generation.

Cloud Internship

Servpac

June 2025-August 2025

  • • Collaborated with engineers to configure and deployed various VoIP devices on cloud-hosted SIP server.
  • • Assisted in testing, troubleshooting and managing life-cycle of networking equipment.
  • • Built Lua-based automation to streamline inventory tracking, reducing task time by 68%.

Leadership

President

Seattle University

Fall 2024 - Present

  • • Led a student organization of 85+ members and 5 officers, overseeing operations, event management and more.
  • • Successfully lobbied for the reimbursement of over $4000 worth of club equipment from university leadership.
  • • Expanded club membership by over 400% through strategic outreach events and consistent social media engagement.
  • • Partnered with professional organizations to expand access to expert-level instruction and resources.

Passion Projects

ClubLedger

In Progress

  • • Building Web-App using MERN stack to simplify club managment.
  • • Reduce time spent verifying membership and required documents, reducing liability issues.
  • • Act a central hub for club information and updates.

Focused YouTube

In Progress

    •Forked and added new features to a Chromium and Firefox extension that reduces visual clutter from Youtube.
    •Implemented toggleable and modular quicklinks and schedule based dynamic extension activation via browser storage.
    •Published to Chrome Web Store and Mozilla Add-ons Store; open-sourced on GitHub.