Diego Rodriguez

I am computer Science student at Bethel University (Mishawaka, IN), graduating in May 2026. I ship mobile apps, build algorithmic trading systems, play college soccer and run a pressure washing business.

About

Education — Bethel University

Pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science (2025–2026) in Mishawaka, IN. Varsity men’s soccer (NAIA, nationally ranked #3);

  • Computer Science
  • Student-Athlete

Education — University of Southern Indiana

B.S. in Computer Science and Finance (2022–2024), Evansville, IN. Dean’s List all five semesters. Varsity men’s soccer (D1).

  • Computer science
  • Finance
  • Dean’s List
  • Student-Athlete

Athletics & leadership

Four years of college varsity men’s soccer (D1 and NAIA). NAIA Champions of Character Award at Bethel.

  • D1 & NAIA Student-Athlete
  • NAIA Champions of Character

Strengths

Discipline & reliability

Varsity soccer (D1 and NAIA), Dean’s List, and years of farm work taught me to work hard, figure things out, there is always a better way and to take pride in my work at all times.

  • Consistency
  • Time management
  • Accountability

Self-Motivated Growth

I have never accepted average. I always aim to finish what I start, to the best of my abilities and to make sure I am proud of my work.

  • excellence
  • hard-working
  • goal orientated

Self-directed learning

Fully self-taught everything useful that I know from YouTube and other online resources. I have demonstrated I can learn fast and use that knowledge to generate tangible results.

  • MQL5
  • NinjaScript
  • Shipping products
  • User feedback

Communication

From door-to-door sales to custom strategy builds and delievery, I have completed several projects from start to finish: I know how to market, set and deliever expectations, manage transactions and retain happy clients for high-ticket products/services.

  • End-to-end ownership and communication
  • Sales execution
  • Client delivery

Business

  • Rodriguez Pressure Washing LLC

    Founder

    Summers 2023 – present · Edwardsburg, MI

    • Rodriguez Pressure Washing on Facebook
    • Founded and ran all business operations — scheduling, equipment, and every customer touchpoint.
    • Marketed door-to-door to 1,000+ homes in the local area.
    • Purchased and maintained equipment for safe, reliable service.
    • Technical expertise and precision while working on multi-million dollar properties.
    • Marketing
    • Customer relationships
    • Management
    • Operations

Finance

  • Value investing — student

    Self-study · fundamentals & valuation

    Ongoing

    • TopBuild (TLD) Equity Valuation Report
    • Working through Aswath Damodaran’s valuation course with a focus on intrinsic valuation and discounted cash flow modeling.
    • Using gained knowledge to make and act on investment decisions.
    • Value investing
    • Valuation
    • Equity research
    • Financial modeling
  • Herbster Wealth Management - Edward Jones

    Internship

    Summer 2025 · Middlebury, IN

    • Performed data entry and validation across advisor workflows
    • Assisted in updating internal software systems so teams could rely on current tools and processes.
    • Researched investment ideas and summarized results for senior management
    • Data validation
    • Operations
    • Investment research
    • Internal tools

Software development

  • R8 Algo Trading -- Freelance

    Developer · futures platforms & client delivery

    2023 – present · YouTube @r8AlgoTrading

    • Built futures contract trading strategy generation software. Works by iterating over 250+ technical indicators to surface potential alpha-generating strategies. Packaged and sold multiple product tiers — same product line as the futures strategy toolkit behind the channel.
    • Provided individual strategy building services. Met with client, understood how they traded and converted an objective, unique strategy into a deterministic trading algorithm.
    • MQL5
    • NinjaScript
    • Python
    • C#
    • Trading automation
    • Client delivery
  • Agora - Mobile App

    Solo-shipped on Google Play

    Play Store listing

    • Researched, learned and executed from app idea to final product.
    • 100+ GitHub commits, 164 files changed, 8250 insertions(+)
    • Solo-published to Google Play Store
    • Currently on back-burner as need more capital to scale.
    • Dart/Flutter
    • Android
    • Mobile development
    • Google Play