About Me

I'm Jake, a computer science student UC Irvine! I'm passionate about data and software development! Take a look at some of my experience and projects below!



Work Experience

Software Engineer Intern
(Virtual Reality Team)
[BAE Systems]

June 2023 - September 2023
Rockville, Maryland



  • Wrote scripts to extract and display metadata of CAD models and 360-images for virtual reality developers, allowing a greater understanding of the origin and creation of implemented assets in the Visionary Render VR program.


  • Migrated submarine safety data from multiple Excel sheets into a MySQL database which allowed for easier data retrieval and ensured that employees were accessing the most up-to-date data.


  • Created dashboards that showed the distribution of different submarine part manufacturers which allowed higher-ups to better plan their supply chain.


  • Skills: Lua, Python (Pandas, RegEx, Matplotlib), SQL

WordPress Administrator
[UC Irvine]

April 2023 - June 2024
Irvine, California



  • Built, migrated, and maintained 50+ WordPress sites for OVPTL office to help UC Irvine students and staff access academic information, promote their work, and maintain an accessible web experience.


  • Skills: WordPress, HTML, CSS, Divi.

Programming Workshop Developer
[Hack Club]

September 2020 - February 2021
Remote



  • Produced 10 project workshops used by 39,000 high-school students to teach programming and technical skills.


  • Included a Discord Custom Message Bot Workshop, a Battleship Workshop, and a Drawing Program Workshop.


  • Skills: C#, JavaScript (Discord.js), Python (Turtle)

Projects


Video Game Analyzer / Price Tracker

  • Uploaded vintage video game cover photos are utilized to return key information that collectors use to make purchasing decisions. Information includes current market price, gaming system, and game developer.


  • Skills: AWS (S3 Buckets, Textract, DynamoDB), Python (OpenCV, BeautifulSoup, Selenium), Git


Chess Convolutional Neural Network Automator

  • Automated the training of two Convolutional Neural Networks which visually extract chess board game states with a 97% accuracy based on training data. Allows for easy parameter adjustment and saves test results in JSON format.


  • Skills: Keras, Python (OpenCV), JSON, Git


Full-Stack Steam Statistics App

  • Aggregates individual video game data such as live player counts, community articles, and exact like and dislike numbers to allow users to make informed purchasing decisions about video games they are interested in.


  • Hacker’s Choice Winner - HackUCI 2022 (UCI’s Hackathon)


  • Skills: JavaScript (React.js), Python (Flask), Steam API, Git

Higher/Lower YouTube Views Guessing Game

  • Displays two randomly selected YouTube videos and prompts users to guess which has the higher view count.


  • 1st Place Winner - UCI WebJam 2021 (UCI’s Web Development Competition)


  • Skills: JavaScript (React.js), YouTube API, Git


Pong With a Twist Game

  • Coded a game of pong in C# and Unity where a barcode scanner could scan different products to affect gameplay.


  • Best Game Hack - Angelhacks 2019 (150 participants)


  • Skills: C#, Unity, Git


Security Breach Warning App

  • Displays up-to-date information on data breaches and job layoffs that may affect the target user. This information is displayed in a human-friendly format and also shows an infographic on data breaches by state.


  • Skills: JavaScript (Node.js, Leaflet.js), Python (Pandas, Selenium), Git