Gavin O'Connor

About

I graduated summa cum laude from Santa Clara University with a double major in Finance and Mathematics. At SCU, I was a Ciocca Center Innovation Fellow and was inducted into Alpha Sigma Nu, Beta Gamma Sigma, and Pi Mu Epsilon. My past experience includes FP&A internships at LiveRamp and Intuitive Surgical, where I am now an incoming Finance Development Program (FDP) analyst.

Resume

Education

Santa Clara University, Graduated 2026

Finance & Mathematics Double Major
Summa Cum Laude
Cumulative GPA: 3.96
Ciocca Center Innovation Fellow
Alpha Sigma Nu (Jesuit Honor Society)
Pi Mu Epsilon (Mathematics Honor Society)
Beta Gamma Sigma (Business Honor Society)

Experience

Incoming, August 2026

Sunnyvale, CA

Intuitive Surgical

Finance Development Program (FDP) Analyst, Rotational Program

Incoming full-time role following the Digital FP&A internship below. My first rotation will be on the Commercial Solutions Team.

June 2025 - September 2025

Sunnyvale, CA

Intuitive Surgical

Financial Analyst Intern, Digital FP&A

Responsible for...

Building and deploying 6 Tableau dashboards for ~15 stakeholders across Finance and Technical leadership to improve visibility into cloud spend, budget adherence, and variance tracking
Designing the cloud cost data architecture between multiple cloud providers to unify sources and support a seamless transition from manual exports to the enterprise data warehouse
Automating messy AWS cost exports by writing a VBA script that unpivoted and reformatted cost data, reducing manual reporting time at month/quarter end
Partnering with DevOps and Enterprise Tech teams to define requirements and implement reporting solutions, presenting final work to senior leadership

June 2024 - August 2024

San Francisco, CA

LiveRamp

Financial Planning & Analysis Summer Intern

Responsible for...

Developing an automated P&L, expense-detail, and revenue-detail dashboard in Looker Studio for Finance & Accounting leadership to promote efficiency in monthly close process
Designing an Excel model to track forecast accuracy across dimensions and highlight areas for improvement
Automating monthly expense emails and building a tool to enable automation of any email, saving time for all team members
Designing a script to allow the use of Google Sheets to create Google Calendar invites, streamlining process of setting meetings
Creating automated quarterly financial review deck using Google Slides, Google Sheets, and Anaplan saved views

February 2023 - June 2025

Santa Clara, CA

Self-Employed Math & Computer Science Tutor

Responsible for...

Tutoring students 1-on-1 in precalculus, calculus 1-3, and Python, with 100% of students passing their courses
Tailoring explanations of complex concepts to each student's learning style, maintaining consistently high client satisfaction and retention
Preparing students for more advanced coursework by building durable, foundational understanding rather than short-term memorization

Programming Projects

Stealth Analytics Application (September 2025 - Present)

Technologies Used: C++, Skia

Rethinking the spreadsheet as a computation engine that scales from Excel-sized models to warehouse-sized data, so analysts can build business logic directly on live data and publish it without switching tools. In active development since September 2025; more details to come once it's ready to share.

Rave (Food Review Social App) (2023 - 2024)

Demo

Technologies Used: JavaScript, React Native, Expo, Python, Flask, Firebase, Firestore, Cloud Storage, Memcached

Co-founded and built Rave, a mobile-first food review social app, over about a year with a cofounder. I built the React Native/Expo front end and designed a REST API in Flask, handling JWT-based authentication, Firestore/Cloud Storage for data and images, and a custom explore/ranking algorithm. The project reached working demo milestones at several points before development wound down as our paths diverged. Code is closed source.

Mandelbrot Set Visualizer (2023)

Demo Github

Technologies Used: Python, Pygame

This program uses the Pygame library to visualize the Mandelbrot Set: a fractal generated by an iterative complex function. The program allows for movement of the 'camera' in all directions and a zoom in/out feature.

Fourier Series Drawing Visualization (2023)

Demo Github

Technologies Used: Python, Pygame

This project is based on a 3Blue1Brown video about Fourier Series. The fourier series is a technique to decompose a function into a series of sine and cosine waves. The program takes in a path (drawing) like this house and turns it into a parameterized function f(t). After a series of calculations, we end up with the initial values and frequencies of a series of waves. We the represent these waves as a series of rotating vectors which trace the image.

Dijkstra's Algorithm Maze Solver (2022)

Demo Github

Technologies Used: Python, Pygame

This project is based on this Computerphile video about algorithmically solving a maze where the input is a picture. My code takes in an MxN maze where black pixels are walls and white pixels are paths. The program then converts this image into a graph where there are only nodes at the junctions, while nodes that are solely path without the ability to turn become edges. Once, I have created the graph, I implement Dijksra's Algorithm using a priority queue and solve the maze. The path used to solve the maze is then drawn onto the image and the image is output again as a new file.