Hey, I'm Adriana

I am a fifth-year Civil Engineering student at UWaterloo, which is to say I have spent five years learning to think about structural, water resources, and soil/rock systems in increasingly sophisticated ways, though I find myself drawn instead to the science of human movement: how people get from one place to another, and why they so often cannot. I am interested in transit data, and in transportation engineering and planning, which is the amazing science and art of accommodating the fact that everyone wants to be somewhere else. I also concern myself with open source software, because there is something appealing about building things that belong to everyone and no one.

Why transportation? The simple answer is endless hours taking the bus around town. Sitting on those buses, I began to notice things: how the wheelchair lift never quite worked in winter, how the schedule was more aspiration than promise, how the entire system seemed designed by people who had never actually ridden it. Working on the infrastructure you depend on is a particular kind of privilege: to be able to improve the very systems that you grew up using.

I believe:

My work:

When I'm not thinking about light rail trains, I can be found cross-country skiing, travelling, reading or painting!

Feel free to stroll through my projects or my open-source contributions on GitHub, read my posts, request my resume or connect with me on LinkedIn!

I'm always open to chat about anything. My inbox is open!

Waterloo OSMnx plot of Waterloo, Ontario

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