Hi, I'm Jay! Full-Stack Go & Python Developer

Software Engineer @ Easy Meets

CS + Applied Math @ the City College of New York

Resume

EXPERIENCES

Easy Meets

Software Engineer

Coordinated with the Frontend team to engineer and optimize a scalable Go Fiber backend service, enabling seamless creation and management of plans and events for a network of over 10,000+ users.
Implemented efficient abstraction and request/error handling systems to reduce API response time by 70%.
Optimized the JWT authentication system with Redis to ensure data integrity & secure user access control.

ACM, Association for Computing Machinery (BYTE)

Technical Development Mentor

Designing roadmaps and agile-sprint cycles to efficiently guide young CCNY engineers in delivering scalable full-stack applications, ensuring best software development practices and industry standards.
Coaching teams with presentations and live demos of ACM board members and community.

CUNY Tech Prep

Machine Learning and Open Source Fellow

Workshopped data science & machine learning fundamentals with Python libraries including Pandas, Scikit-Learn, PyTorch, HuggingFace, OpenCV on 20+ large datasets
As the project lead & machine learning engineer, collaborated with three engineers to produce 'Learn-ASL', an educational platform that uses our fine-tuned OpenCV-YOLOv8 model to classify American Sign Language hand signs into English text to bring awareness to the rising population of those who are hard of hearing.
Collaborating with an engineer in exploring and contributing to open-source projects. Engaging in codebase analysis, and studying industry best practices within large scale software applications.

ICCAE - Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center

Software Engineering Research Intern

Built an Natural-Language Processing AI model with an engineer through TDD to process 10,000+ data entries using TF-IDF vectorizer Scikit-Learn methods. Reached a 70% accuracy after thorough testing with human vs. AI-written text documents and essays, contributing to publication efforts.

PROJECTS

Spoiler Alert

Spoiler Alert is a full-stack application where given an image or a search query, retrieves data from the FDA API of any active recalls that are currently being investigated! Simply take a picture of the product, or type in the name of the product, and it will instantly retrieve the data.

Silvercord

Silvercord is a Discord bot, an assistant for supporting you in enrolling into future courses, with seasonal LeetCode competitions to give an extra push to submit LeetCode problems to pump up your high score to your Discord server's leaderboard!

Schedule Snake

A web application built with Next.JS and SQL to ensure a smooth enrollment process into university courses. Professors create courses on Schedule Snake swiftly, and students are able to enroll into the corresponding courses.

Dovelop AI

A CLI to do list application made to improve productivity for developers and other users. Be able to track your to do list and edit them in real time while you are working on a project! Dovelop is powered by Go, uses OpenAI for task breakdowns, and local JSON data to store to do list data

BYTE Club Website

A website built with Next.JS to showcase CCNY's BYTE Club website, its projects, and its eboard.

Five Bhais Restaurant

A project built with other engineers demonstrating an online restaurant system where users are able to order takeout or delivery, and make dinner reservations after shopping on the menu. Built with NextJS, Flask, and MongoDB Atlas.