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 LLC

  • Facilitated donor user interactions with recipient users by developing a messaging system.
  • Enabled recipient users to create Secret Santa wishes by expanding backend API using Node.js.
  • 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.
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

- Link Shortener to store useful links in the cloud (In progress).
- Toy project to explore different tools and technologies.
- v1 Stack: MongoDB, Express, Node.js and Next.js.

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Job Tracker

- Implemented a Full stack Django web app to keep track of applied jobs.
- 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