Hi, I'm JP. I'm a Full Stack Software Engineer at Parsons Corporation living in Baltimore, MD. I am currently collaborating with a team building an engine to optimize neural networks. I have designed and built a web application with OAuth and JWT-based authentication allowing users and admins to configure and monitor the optimization of CNNs and LLMs. I have architected a dashboard with TypeScript, React, Vite, and React Query, providing users with real-time metrics, and led development of scalable REST APIs in Python for user auth, task ordering, and performance metrics shared over 24 HTTP endpoints on a FastAPI ASGI server handling hundreds of concurrent JSON requests

I am also a former student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where I studied computational physics with minors in computer science and mathematics. There I reasearched machine learning applications in signal processing to determine locations and causes of energy material degredation.

I have also worked as an Intelligence Analyst (with more of a Software Developer focus) at DarkTower. There I developed custom web scraping and threat detection tools in Python, Bash, JavaScript, and Go according to specific needs of analysts. I also automated the retrieval of 25+ TB of leaked data across multiple Linux VMs, allowing for resident analysts to retrieve and examine 200 times more data than was initially possible in requested time frames. In my time at DarkTower, I analyzed over 3 million leaked files, crafted dozens of SQL queries, created 90+ graphics in Python and Data Studio, wrote 48 technical reports, and gave semi-weekly presentations to Fortune 500 clients.

As a recipient of the NASA Alabama Space Grant Consortium award, I graduated from UAB with distinguished honors and received a 3.75 GPA. I have built five web applications from scratch, programmed tools to expedite web scraping and combat fraud, worked with more than 20 different types of machine learning models, and written eleven algorithm benchmarks in four different languages. I have a lot of fun solving complex problems and am passionate about building new technologies, particularly for improving our understanding of the world and mitigating our negative impacts.

When I'm not behind a computer screen, I enjoy spending time with my partner, Ruby, walking my dog, Marlowe, creating music, cooking, and studying foreign languages.