Brandon P.

Brandon Pae

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Columbia CS → BCG | Undergrad & Consulting Admissions

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Studied at Columbia University

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Works at Boston Consulting Group

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Brandon's Coaching Offerings

Custom hourly · $95/hr

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Brandon’s College Qualifications

10+ people coached for College

I'm Brandon, a recent Columbia Engineering grad (Computer Science + Entrepreneurship, 3.985 GPA) who just finished navigating college apps and MBB recruiting. I know what it actually takes to translate a technical background into a story that resonates, because I had to figure it out myself. In high school, I landed offers from Columbia, Cornell, UPenn, Berkeley, Rice, Johns Hopkins, NYU, and UIUC. At Columbia, I landed a BCG full-time offer through my own outreach strategy (not on-campus recruiting). And I've spent the past four years mentoring 15+ students from my hometown, my high school network, and my church community into top schools - working through their essays and positioning with them one-on-one. What I bring to coaching is a fresh perspective from someone who just went through it. If you're a STEM student who doesn't know how to make your resume "tell a story," or an applicant trying to figure out how to stand out, I've been in that exact spot. I can help you audit where you are, figure out what's actually compelling about your background, and turn that into something that clicks with college admissions committees or MBB interviewers. Happy to chat - no fluff, just honest feedback.

Brandon can help with:

Application Strategy

Editing

Essays

Financial Aid & Scholarships

General Exploration

Interviews

Recommendations

Resume

School Selection

Secondary Review

Supplementary Materials

Testing & Assessments

Waitlist Strategy

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Work Experience

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Claude Builder Ambassador

Anthropic

September 2025 - December 2025

Built Claude Builder Club to 150+ members; led six campus demos and workshops with Anthropic engineers Organized 75-student hackathon; teams built AI prototypes addressing real campus challenges, including a class registration tool

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Associate

Boston Consulting Group

June 2025 - Present

Built and automated Excel-based financial models tracking EBITDA and OWC across workstreams for an industrial goods client; scoped AI automation opportunity under ambiguity, presented recommendations to senior client leadership Interned at BCG in Summer 2025 and returning full-time in August 2026

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Teaching Assistant

Columbia Engineering

January 2025 - May 2026

Mentored 25 students per semester building full-stack apps (Flask, jQuery); introduced Figma-first workflow reducing development time by 50% Extended impact beyond direct section to 600+ students through office hours and grading support

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Research Assistant

Columbia Engineering

January 2025 - May 2025

Modernized autonomous drone firmware (C/C++) to integrate with ROS 2 stack; validated through real-world flight tests and contributed to IROS conference paper submission

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Software Engineer

FluidityIQ

June 2024 - September 2024

Deployed patent search vectorizer via Azure CI/CD; cut API latency 6x and resolved 75% of bugs through structured testing Built LLM patent summarizer using LangChain with modular model-swapping; redesigned chat to support multiple concurrent users, reaching initial customer base of IP lawyers

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Software Engineering Intern

Capco

June 2023 - August 2023

Fixed 66% of bugs in a major U.S. bank’s permissions service and automated test data creation; presented results to 30+ executives, with work integrated into client systems

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Director

Columbia Organization of Rising Entrepreneurs

September 2022 - December 2024

Admissions Committee

Directed Almaworks Accelerator; mentored 30+ founders and led five Demo Days (100+ attendees) with Bain Capital Ventures. Redesigned mentor matching to reach 100% attendance; connected Columbia-Cornell founders and hosted Microsoft & Perplexity speakers Also led Partnerships in the CORE executive board, enabling collaboration between Columbia and Cornell founders, organizing speaker events with Microsoft and Perplexity, and inspiring new students to join CORE

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Machine Learning Intern

Arrow Electronics

August 2021 - August 2022

Ran 200+ experiments (Optuna, ClearML) to forecast electronics lifecycle metrics; improved forecasting accuracy by 68%

Education

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Columbia University

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

2022 - 2026

GPA: 3.985 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Minor in Entrepreneurship Activities and societies: Columbia Organization of Rising Entrepreneurs (Director of Almaworks Accelerator), Columbia Daily Spectator (Head of Product)

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Horace Mann School

High School Diploma, Computer Science

2019 - 2022

GPA: 3.97 UW, 4.48 W; SAT: 1570

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