Jesus Cervantes

Developed and trained Naïve Bayes and NLP models as webinar recommenders using BERT and tf-idf Built out a pipeline in Python for exporting recommendations to S3 and PostgreSQL for a .NET service Explored different metrics and methods for evaluating recommendation models such as MAP/R@k

Served as the student representative on hiring committee for Associate Vice Provost of Residential Education Redesigned student residential staff roles by identifying stakeholders, needs and shortcomings of the current model, and working with the administration and reaching out to students and faculty. Redesigned spring training for student staff from an individual, classroom model to a modular team-building-based approach

Conducted research with advanced hardware team to train 3D gesture recognition model using IMU data Lead hardware, software, and design for data collection, training, and testing model Presented findings to ~75 engineers and other staff at Google research

Designed and implemented a new workflow for persisting intermediate state of derivative margin calculations Managed database with layered Cassandra and inter-service communications with Kafka Cleaned parks, served food, and learned about different Bloomberg departments as part of Best of Bloomberg

Wrote articles to teach children about various educational topics ranging from geology to astronomy Optimized content to maximize SEO score and increase visibility on the web and in search engines

Used Microsoft Logic Apps with Microsoft's Customer Master team to streamline customer data onboarding to be easier and more efficient Developed a web tool in C# to automatically generate Logic Apps for Customer Master API coordinations for utilizing customer data

Conducted research with Tesseract OCR to employ learning algorithms on low quality scans of US Banking Code to produce usable text files for the construction of an analytical data tool

Experimented with web development in HTML, CSS, Javascript, Python, and Google App Engine from Google engineers Worked with Google engineers to perform at company standards Constructed infrastructure and designed cipher algorithms for an encryption webapp that ciphers messages input by the user in real time Received Generation Google Scholarship as one of 20 students nationwide

Tutored the first cohort of students in the English and essay sections of the ACT in a two-month curriculum.