Jacob Kogut Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Lead of a six-person team which developed mission control software for rocket launch and flight• Employed multi-threaded task schedulers to improve sampling rate of telemetry from 40Hz to 40kHz• Built UDP and serial (USB) drivers to allow for the concurrent capture of incoming telemetry data as wellas the transmission and acknowledgment of outgoing telecommands for multiple devices simultaneously• Created suite of REST APIs and WebSockets to facilitate communication between backend and frontend• Utilized complex OOP concepts like functional interfaces, generics, etc. to reduce code repetition• Interviewed stakeholders to elicit requirements for new features and improvements• Leveraged GitHub & GitHub issues to track bugs, facilitate version management and plan timelines

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Achieved significant cost savings by automating data entry through development of Spring services that leverage Hibernate ORM, enabling users to efficiently upload CSV files with thousands of rows that previously required row-by-row manual input• Improved the speed of automated data entry by employing sophisticated multi-threading techniques• Resolved production bugs by leveraging debugging tools and linux command line utilities• Reduced incorrect data management of financial assets by utilizing Hibernate transaction rollbacks• Collaborated with Business & QA analysts to verify that implemented features functioned as expected• Participated in the AGILE/Scrum software development cycle (facilitated by Jira)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Created web pages through React.js based on Sketch specifications. Collaborated with QA analysts to verify that implemented features functioned as expected. Developed new Springboot endpoints and updated existing ones to specification.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Co-Op In Software Engineering, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Minor in Aerospace Engineering Project Lead for McGill Rocket Team

Ontario Secondary School Diploma, Ib Advanced Bilingual Diploma (French & English)

Courses: Higher Level: Physics, Chemistry, Economics Standard Level: Math A&A, French Lang&Lit, English Lang&Lit