Jared Hammett

Software Engineer · AI/ML · Full-Stack · Systems

Education

California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo Expected June 2026

B.S. Computer Science · Minor in Accounting

Experience

WeGive Summer 2025

Full-Stack Software Engineering Intern

  • Integrated Meilisearch into sitewide table queries, improving search responsiveness and scalability
  • Built an AI helpbot using Model Context Protocol (MCP) to analyze audit logs and surface issue resolutions
  • Expanded MailGun API integration with passthrough CRUD methods for mailing list management
  • Migrated HTML email templates to AWS S3, reducing database storage and improving maintainability
Jannuzzi Consulting Summer 2024 – Present

Web Development / E-Commerce Management

  • Developed e-commerce platforms for clothing brands and tracked performance metrics
  • Wrote Python scripts to automate organization and formatting of financial reports
Cal Poly SLO — Instructional Student Aid 2023 – Present

Computer Science Department

  • Lead study sessions and tutored students in Intro CS, Data Structures, Discrete Mathematics, and Algorithms

Skills

Python PyTorch scikit-learn MediaPipe NumPy / Pandas Reinforcement Learning CUDA MPI C POSIX / pthreads Java JavaScript React Node.js SQL / MySQL AWS S3 OpenAI API Git

Projects

Focus / Distraction Classifier Senior Project

Python · MediaPipe · PyTorch · scikit-learn

  • Classifies focused vs. distracted states from 10-second video clips using Eye Aspect Ratio and gaze features extracted via MediaPipe (478 facial landmarks at 3 fps)
  • Benchmarked four architectures — Logistic Regression (summary stats), Logistic Regression (time-series), 1D CNN, and Transformer — using 5-fold stratified cross-validation on 96 labeled videos
Systems Programming Projects OS Course

C · POSIX · FUSE · pthreads

  • Implemented a custom memory allocator replacing malloc, calloc, realloc, and free; benchmarked allocation strategies to minimize fragmentation
  • Built an LWP (lightweight process) thread library with a round-robin scheduler and manual context switching via register save/restore
  • Developed a FUSE filesystem that mounts as a real device, storing files with inodes and supporting full directory traversal and read/write operations
Super Mario Bros RL Agent

Python · PyTorch · OpenAI Gym · PPO

  • Trained a PPO agent with custom reward shaping to play Super Mario Bros using a convolutional policy network built in PyTorch
AI Phishing Detector

Python · scikit-learn · NLTK · BeautifulSoup

  • Browser extension using a Logistic Regression classifier to detect phishing emails in Gmail in real time
AI Text Summarizer

React · Node.js · MongoDB · OpenAI API

  • MERN stack app that summarizes documents and generates comprehension questions via the OpenAI API
  • User authentication and MongoDB persistence for saved summaries

Relevant Coursework

Data Structures & Algorithms Design & Analysis of Algorithms Operating Systems Systems Programming Parallel & Distributed Computing Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Discovery from Data Programming Languages Software Engineering Computer Organization