Welcome to my site
Software Engineer in Atlanta, GA
Growing up near our family farm in North Carolina, I always enjoyed taking things apart, figuring out how they work, and putting them back together (most of the time). Once I started school at Georgia Tech, I realized that I enjoy the challenge of software development and find it to be meaningful work.
I graduated from Tech in December of 2017 and started work at NCR shortly thereafter. Currently I am a Software Engineer on our Advanced Marketing Solution (AMS) product. Most of my work is on our Promotion Engine and is done in C++. I occasionaly do UI work on the web interface portion of our AMS suite as well
In my time at Tech, I was a member of the Beta Psi Chapter of Sigma Chi, the Student Alumni Association, GT Ducks Unlimited, and helped raise money for the Huntsman Cancer Research Foundation. I have participated in HackGT and was member of a team that finished 3rd and 7th in two different Google Games Atlanta competitions.
I keep myself busy outside of work by practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. BJJ is a great source of stress relief for me and keeps me active. Competing in BJJ tournaments is demanding but it's a lot of fun and very rewarding. I also love being outside, particularly if I'm hunting or fishing. I try to read regularly but the list of things I want to read always grows faster than I can get through books/comics.
Bachelor of Computer Science - Dec 2017
I specialized in the Devices and Information Internetworks threads. I originally came in as a Computer Engineering major, but switched once I discovered I liked coding and working with software more than circuits and hardware. In addition to my major curriculum, I took classes in Info Viz and AI
Oxford Study Abroad Program - Summer 2015
I spent the first half of the twelve week program travelling across Continental Europe studying art and music history. The second six weeks was spent at Worcester taking engineering classes. I also travelled on my own during the later portion. In total, I visited 11 countries in Western Europe on my first trip outside the US.
These are group projects I worked on with classmates at Tech
Fall 2017
College Inspector is a D3.JS visualization tool. It's primary focus is for exploring trends in financial commitment and potential earnings upon granduation. You can drill down on specific instituations to see more in depth demographic info about that school. The source code is on Github and you can play around with it here.
Summer 2016
Garage Sail is a THE ultimate yard sale helper. It serves as a dashboard for managing yard/garage/estate sales. Built using the Play framework for Java with a mySQL database. Garage Sail is capable of posting to social media to get the word out about your upcoming sales, searching for similar items on Ebay, and has a host of other features built in as well. Source code can be found on Github.
Summer 2016
GTMovie is a web app for purchasing tickets to movies ahead of time, much like the popular website Fandango. It was built with the Flask web framework for Python and has a mySQL database in the backend. Feel free to check out the source code on Github.
My resume can be downloaded here.
Feel free to send me an email:
Atlanta, GA
jakehayes82@gmail.com