Hi, I'm Jay. I'm studying Computer Science + Applied Mathematics at CCNY!

My Experiences

Easy Meets icon

Software Engineer

January 2025 - Present

Easy Meets

Engineered a scalable backend service using Go Fiber, reducing HTTP response time by 70%, enhancing user experience and system efficiency

Optimized a secure JWT authentication system with Redis, decreasing latency by 50%, and reducing database lookups by 70%

Build Your Technical Experience, ACM icon

Mentor & Project Manager

January 2025 - Present

Build Your Technical Experience, ACM

Design roadmaps and agile-sprint cycles to efficiently guide BYTE engineers in delivering scalable full-stack applications, ensuring best software development practices and industry standards

Coach teams through presentations and live demos of ACM board members and community

CUNY Tech Prep icon

Machine Learning & Open Source Fellow

July 2024 - Present

CUNY Tech Prep

Pioneered an OpenCV-YOLOv8 model to classify American Sign Language hand signs into English text

Building a Language Server Protocol (LSP) for VSCode that interacts directly with the LLM through prompt chaining

ICCAE: Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center icon

Software Engineering Research Intern

November 2023 - May 2024

ICCAE: Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center

Trained and optimized an NLP Generative AI model using TDD to process 10,000+ data entries, and achieving a 70% accuracy in identifying AI-written text and co-authoring a research paper

Deployed a full-stack Next.JS React frontend and Python Flask backend handling 150+ users

PROJECTS
Spoiler Alert

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

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

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

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 Website

BYTE Club Website

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

Five Bhais

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.