About

hi, i'm jack. here are a few things about me:

i like to:

  • cook and eat good food
  • play the geet
  • get outside

i'm interested in:

  • large-scale distributed backend systems
  • music technology
  • boston sports

recent rabbit holes:

  • continuations in functional programming
  • OS abstractions
  • growth mindset
  • too much reading about AI

Experience

Jul — Dec 2026

DraftKings

Incoming Software Engineer Co-op

May — Jul 2026

Toast

Incoming Software Engineer Intern

2025 — Present

Verizon · NExT Consulting

Tech Lead & Software Engineer (Co-op)

Led development of an automated competitive intelligence platform that processed social media and customer complaints data through NLP pipelines to identify customer sentiment trends and geospatial issue hotspots. Architected a scalable backend with domain-driven design, refactored the API structure for improved performance, and automated multi-account cloud database pipelines. Engineered an anomaly detection system to notify Verizon teams on market opportunities.

Python FastAPI AWS Terraform PostgreSQL SQLAlchemy TypeScript React
Feb — Jun 2025

Lighthouse Search Fund

Web Developer

Designed and developed the official website for a launch fund that helps founders turn projects into lasting businesses. Built a responsive site to establish the company's online presence and attract SaaS founders and investors. Collaborated with the founder through iterative design reviews, translating prototypes into functional features and integrating dynamic contact forms and scheduling tools.

Next.js TypeScript React Tailwind CSS Figma
2024 — 2025

Northeastern Electric Racing

Software Tech Lead

Led full-stack development of an internal project management dashboard for a Formula SAE electric racing team. Re-engineered the finance tracking system and vendor management pages with custom components and backend endpoints. Managed technical coordination across a 20+ student developer team through weekly standups, ticket management, and code reviews.

TypeScript Express.js React Prisma PostgreSQL

Projects

MMLN

MMLN Package Optimization

Performance optimization of Dr. Gerber's MMLN R-package, a statistical model for analyzing multivariate data. Ported the bottleneck Metropolis-Hastings sampling routines from R to C++ via Rcpp to deliver ~95% runtime reductions over the original implementation.

C++ R Rcpp
ResearchCompass

ResearchCompass

Research discovery platform that streamlines the academic publication process, built for Khoury College faculty. The platform uses vector embeddings with a sentence-transformer to match research projects with relevant journals and articles pulled from academic databases.

Python Flask SQLAlchemy MySQL AWS ChromaDB SBERT Modeling
FinishLine

Financial Dashboard on FinishLine

Financial tracking capabilities on a project management dashboard for the Northeastern Electric Racing Team. Features include club vendor tracking, financial data insights, and reimbursment tracking.

TypeScript React Express Prisma PostgreSQL
RoomieSync

RoomieSync

Roommate organization app that simplifies shared living by managing shared expenses, chores, and a shared alarm system. Placed first in the first KTP (Northeastern technology club) hackathon.

Java Spring Spring Security/JWT PostgreSQL TypeScript Next.js
RiffRadar

RiffRadar

Guitar lesson recommendation platform that helps users discover songs they can learn based on chords they already know. The system uses vector similarity search with ChromaDB to find songs with similar chord patterns, along with YouTube tutorial links for each recommendation.

Python FastAPI ChromaDB Redis Typescript Next.js

My Toolkit for Success

Java
Python
TypeScript
React
C++
Docker
Spring Boot
FastAPI
Node.js
Next.js
HTML/CSS
AWS
Music
Music
Music
Music

click me :)