Jake Kent
Work Experience
Software Engineer / Lightmatter
Sept 2017 - Current
- Working as a web developer and software engineer on Django/Python, JS framework and iOS web applications. See Portfolio for more details.
Software Engineer (Volunteer) / биржа gate io отзывы (биржа gate io отзывы)
July 2017
- Worked entirely in Mandarin Chinese with a Taiwanese team to develop a video conferencing system for students and teachers at the Taipei Language Institute around the world.
- Used an Ubuntu server paired with a Kurento Media Server to stream live video between a scalable number of students and teachers through Websocket and WebRTC.
Head of Tech/Webmaster/Lead Developer / ArchHacks (Repo)
January 2016 - August 2017
- Built the website for ArchHacks, Wash U's premier hackathon, from scratch integrating Flask with an Apache server
- Collaborated with a site designer and mentored several other site developers to drive over 50,000 page views from nearly 14,000 unique users to the site
- Served as the de-facto head of tech/tech logistics for ArchHacks: setting up archhacks.io emails, maintaining the devpost site and collaborating on Python scripts to handle downloading 2500 resumes from urls and running a cornhole tournament
Teaching Assistant / WUSTL CSE 330
January 2016 - May 2017
- The Assistant Head TA during the Spring 2017 semester.
- Served as a teaching assistant for this rapid prototype development and creative programming web development course.
- Led lab hours and held office hours to supplement the course's video lectures and help students address issues with developing fully formed websites and software with
Software Engineering Intern / Lightmatter
May 2016 - August 2016
- Collaborated with executives and the engineering team to complete top priority client work and internal productivity improvement software.
- Built a large part of the Paladin (https://www.joinpaladin.com/) website MVP front-end with a senior engineer.
- Created and implemented software on a new Heroku instance that pulled data from the GitHub, Pivotal Tracker, Google Apps and Slack APIs to keep track of and improve the productivity of all engineers at the firm.
- Also learned QA protocol, industry best-practices Python and Django testing, and email templating and worked on the firm’s Django setup scripts.
Web Developer Intern / TFI
May 2015 - August 2015
- Improved functionality and restructured the site homepage including building and implementing a JS carousel and nav bar, and a “Support Us” popout.
- Redesigned global site grid/layout involving restructuring several MySQL queries.
- Consistently invited to present my work and ideas at weekly development and “all-staff” meetings.
- To explore even more details of my work at the TFI, check out: (Portfolio)
Web Developer Intern and Consultant (fall 2015) / TDIA and TDIA
May 2015 - August 2015
- Completely redesigned the TDIA website, rebuilding all site pages to improve functionality and appearance.
Web Developer Intern / Democracy.com
May 2015 - August 2015
- Partnered with a senior engineer to provide user support, troubleshoot, and develop new features.
- Helped debug issues with campaign contributions and direct deposit bank account.
- Optimized candidate database loading process by ten times.
- Created many UI elements including popups, charts and new pages. Dynamically generated user alert emails.
Education
Washington University in St. Louis
2013 - 2017
Computer Science - member of the WUSTL engineering school Dean's List
Bard High School Early College
2009 - 2013
NYC DOE High School Diploma / A.A. (Bard College) - graduated with honors