Joey Hersh 

Raised seed capital and became finalists in the Stumberg Venture Competition, where we were awarded $30k worth of seed capital and prizes. I spent the months leading up to this past summer designing the application's (mostly) serverless, cloud native architecture that utilizes over 25 AWS services. I had the opportunity to lead a team of seven developers through implementing that architecture into code. My role during the summer focused on leveraging ensemble learning algorithms (XG-BOOST) as well as fine-tuned, large language models (GPT-3) alongside AWS-managed ML services such as Textract, Comprehend, etc. to analyze user uploaded receipts and generate unique advice on how to spend money better. My role also included managing the communication between the development and business units, and explaining complex backend logic to people with minimal expertise. Over the past few months, we've met the cyber-security standards for Plaid production-level access to account balance and transaction data from most major American banks. We have also developed the entire backend infrastructure and React Native front end.

Summer volunteer position through St. Andrew's Episcopal School assisting Breakthrough, a non-profit organization that helps sixth through twelfth-grade students that hope to become first-generation college students achieve their goals. Provided IT support each summer to both staff and students ranging from mobile phone repair to network configuration of staff laptops.

For St. Andrew’s maker space/innovation lab, acted as assistant, promoted to student manager, responsible for training students on or operating equipment for them, including laser cutters, 3D printers, power tools, soldering equipment, CAD/CAM (computer-aided 3D design) software, and industrial cutting tools (CNC mill). Devoted 15 hours per week to helping, building, cleaning, and managing. Also designed the dedicated server, PCs, and virtual reality demos including ports of WII games to virtual reality with custom controllers.