Jeffrey Jacob

Bay Area · Ca · (408) 797-5839 · jejacob@berkeley.edu

Hello!, I am a recent Master's graduate from UC Berkeley. I am experienced in all stages of the Software Development process from Data Structures and Algorithms to CI/CD and Containerization. Additionally I have experience in Machine Learning and Data Science.

Experience

Software Consultant

UC Berkeley IT

Working to integrate LLM chatbots into UC Berkeley websites, LLM uses custom RAG engine to generate answers based on documentation. Software Stack included: FastAPI,React, Jenkins, Grafana, MongoDB, Pytorch, HTTPS, Docker Compose

Dec 2023 - Present

SWE/ML Intern

Merck & Co.

Designed/built a custom Large Language Model and end to end Web App which scrapes the internet for scientific research and recommends papers to employees based on their interests while generating metadata and readership stats. Utilized Fast API, Dash, Docker, Beautiful Soup, Postman, HuggingFace, SQLite, and Github Actions

Jan 2024 - May 2024

Bioinformatics Intern

Green Labs UCSC

Created a software pipeline using bash scripting, C++ and Python which automated lab functions Reduced load times by 34% through code optimizations and refactoring Wrote reusable unit tests to test for bugs and used the SnakeMake workflow for reproducibility

July 2010 - December 2011

Projects

Cellular Automata Simulation

implemented a general purpose library of a cellular automata that can be used in a variety of applications to model different phenomena.

October 2023

Vibrational Analysis Using CNDO/2

Developed a script that is capable of taking an input molecule, geometrically optimizes it using steepest descent with backtraining (Armijo condtion), and computes the vibrational modes of the molecule. Employs parrelization using OpenMP

January 2024 - May 2024

Peptide Digest: Scraping and ranking articles using Large Language Models

Working with Merck created a comprehensize set of software including databases and api for automating custom LLMs for scientific research gathering tasks.

Jan 2024 - May 2024

Education

University of California Berkeley

Master of Molecular Science and Software Engineering
August 2023 - May 2024

University of California Santa Cruz

Bachelor of Science, Bioinformatics
August 2019 - May 2023

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
Workflow
  • Generate Tests
  • Data Structures Algorithmns
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Agile Development & Scrum
  • parrelization using OpenMP and MPI

Interests

I'm passionate about leveraging technology to build solutions that deliver measurable business value. I enjoy working collaboratively to solve complex problems and continuously learning and expanding my skill set. Outside of this I am a avid Tennis Player, Sci-Fi enthousiast and aspiring chef.