Joseph Kahn

[email protected] | 647-202-9646 66 Highgrove Crescent | L4C 7W6 Richmondhill | Ontario http://onebytetwobytes.blogspot.ca/ https://github.com/JBKahn

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Python Django Javascript jQuery Backbone AngularJS HTML

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Java CSS/LESS SQL Scheme Ruby C ML

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Prolog R SVN/GIT Agile Scrum Waterfall Assembly

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Enrollment at the University of Toronto: 2009. Enrollment in the computer science program: 2011. Expected Graduation: 2014 Specialists: Computer Science & Biological Computation GPA: Computer Science Specialist : 3.87 | Overall: 3.53

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Software Design Introduction to Databases Data Structures and Analysis The Design of Interactive Computational Media Operating Systems Principles of Programming Languages

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Probability with Computer Applications Computer Organization Software Testing and Verification Natural Language Computing Software Tools and Systems Programming

  Work Experience: Software developer at Wave (2013 – present)  Backend development of the webapp. written in Django.  Frontend development of the webapp, written in javascript with both Backbone and AngularJS.  Work on a small team on the core functionality of the app, as well as feature development.  Take initiative in providing feedback and help to design new features and create improved user experiences. Data analyst at EQAds (2012 – 2013)  Write .net regular expressions for website classification by analyzing URL information.  Reducing storage requirements and improving search efficiency for correct ad placement.  Take initiative in providing feedback and help to design improvements for classification tools. Work study at the Guttman Laboratory (2011 – 2012) Assisted post doctorial, postgraduate and graduate students with lab maintenance.  Ensured accurate test results for experiments run by various members of the lab.  Prepared media and other experimental equipment for use in experimentation. 

Volunteer at the Guttman Laboratory (2011 – 2011)  Assisted a post doctorial researcher with a project on Cystic Fibrosis.  Wrote short scripts to run programs on data sets as needed.  Used computational analysis to construct and classify DNA sequences using DNA fragments.  Created a local database of sequence features based on experiments run on relevant species. General Assistant at the United Synagogue Day School during the summer (2005 – 2010)  Performed several positions including head campus mover, personal assistant, office temp, assistant in accounts payable and assistant in accounts receivable.  Managed a team of over eight students during the campus move in 2005.  Improved efficiency of school year preparation through digitization of labels and other tasks.  Developed systems for tracking and storing supplies to save money for each upcoming year.  Worked in a team based environment with teachers, staff and administrators.

  Personal Projects: Jira Related Tickers (present)  Co-developer of a Jira plugin which will use a trained model to suggest closely related tickets.  Plans to extend to time estimation of new tickets based on Jira database. Indecisive (present)  Developing a program which makes trivial decisions for indecisive users.  Indecisive prompts the user for possible options and an optional set of weights before generating a random number and giving the result to the user.  Will be written in Java for the android platform. PandemicJS (present)  Forked early in development to finish the game, design a pleasant UI and refactor the existing code base.  Browser game written using NodeJS. School Projects: Myfind and Myuniq (2012) –shell command find and uniq written in C. ROSI + (2012) – Design of a user interface using common heuristics, user stories and interviews in collaboration with five other students. Yak (2012) – C based chat client based on the broken telephone game. It allows users connected in a linear fashion to discover each other and expand the number of known users for each client. Java Shell (2012) – Shell written collaboratively with three students using scrum development cycle. Maze Solver (2011) – Python based ascii maze solver written in a pair programming environment. Extracurriculars:    

Alternate for the 2012 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest team for UofT. Volunteer for the Computer Science Student Union. First place for a first year student in a local UofT programming contest. Completed many exercises at Codeacademy.com.