Hey there!

My name is Jacob Jeevan. I am a recent CS graduate, currently looking for SWE/SDE roles. This is my portfolio website built using HTML, Bootstrap and an extra bit of CSS. Take a look around and if you would like to connect, email me at jeevan @ gatech dot edu.

Experience

Donate Gifts

  • Raised over $3k in Secret santa gift donations by developing backend API in a team of seven.
  • Migrated Payment routes and services to Typescript with Tsoa.
  • Facilitated donor user interactions with recipient users by developing a messaging system.
  • Developed unit tests using mocha to test the logic and functionality of backend API.

Bioinformatics Institute

  • Prepared software package for Polar GINI Curve research paper. https://bit.ly/2D7z8eZ
  • Preprocessed single-cell data using dimensionality reduction techniques such as PCA and tSNE.
  • Reduced simulation execution time by 12% through parallel processing in MATLAB.

Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering

  • Assisted users with set-up, repair and maintenance of computer and peripheral, hardware and software.
  • Coordinated with IT team to gather inventory information and upgrade old equipment.
Education

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Master of Science in Computer Science

Georgia Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering
Link Shortener

- Developed Node.js backend to shorten and store Urls on MongoDB.
- Designed Frontend using Next.js and Tailwind CSS framework.
- Implemented CI/CD with deploy on push using Github actions and Dokku.
- v1 Stack: MongoDB, Express, Node.js and Next.js.

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Job Tracker

- Developed a full stack Django app, with Mapbox integration, to track and visualize job applications by location.
- Integrated CI/CD tools to deploy on push to Digital Ocean servers.
- Created Cronjob to perform weekly database backups to S3.
- Reworked the project with React for frontend and Django with REST for backend.

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Reddit Gild Predictor

- Created a script, as well as a GUI counterpart, to scrape Reddit data using PRAW.
- Trained models using machine learning algorithms to predict the gilding status of reddit comments.

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Skills
Languages
Proficient: Java, Python, SQL
Familiar: C++, CSS, HTML, Javascript, Matlab
Libraries
Mongoose, Numpy, Pandas, React.js, Scikit-Learn
Frameworks
Django, Express, ElectronJS, Node.js
Databases
MongoDB, PostgreSQL
Tools
Bash, Bootstrap, Git, Postman, WordPress
Methodologies
CRUD, MVC, OOP, RESTful, TDD
Books

Fiction: Wheel of Time, Agatha Christie's books.
Nonfiction: Deep Work (Cal Newport), Age of Empathy (Frans De Waal), Everything is F*cked; a book about hope (Mark Manson), Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (Ha-Joon Chang)

Music

Jazz: Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Ryo Fukui
80s J-pop: Tatsuro Yamashita, Mariya Takeuchi
Hip-hop: Nujabes, Anderson Paak, DJ Okawari, Pase Rock
Classical: Antonin Dvorak, Richard Wagner, Francisco Tarrega

Other Hobbies

Cooking: Mostly Asian Cuisine
Games: Mass Effect Series, Witcher Series, Civ Series, Stellaris
Anime: Natsume Yuujinchou, Ghost in the Shell SAC, Space Dandy