John Connell Email & Phone Number

Agoura Hills, CA, US

• Spearhead outreach and communication with prospective speakers, judges, and stakeholders
• Organize the largest collegiate hackathon in Southern California, with 1000+ participants each year
• Coordinate hackathon operations, reaching out to sponsors, communicating with industry professionals, and transforming ideas into new events

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Contributed to the development of a prioritization framework for the City of Los Angeles to optimize road infrastructure spending, ensuring effective allocation of resources.
• Increased the quality of automated repair recommendations by over 30% by correcting road length biases in existing algorithms.
• Created interactive visualizations to assess the impact of road decommissioning, identifying over 500 homes at increased hazard risk due to compromised road accessibility.
• Leveraged data from neural networks and LiDAR scans to design solutions addressing road inequities, impacting thousands of Los Angeles residents.
• Improved filters and classification systems by incorporating factors like road maintenance histories and ease of access, leading to more accurate assessments.
• Managed and optimized Potree 3D Visualizer for rendering several 100s of gigabytes of point-cloud data, enhancing data visualization capabilities.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Led a team of 4 engineering fellows, overseeing the entire full-stack development lifecycle from initial design through to successful deployment.
• Drove project initiatives by fostering collaboration, implementing best coding practices, and ensuring high-quality deliverables.
• Gained mentorship from industry experts at Google, Meta, and Bloomberg, enhancing my expertise in CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, MVC design patterns, and Agile methodologies.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Clubs: Upsilon Pi Epsilon(Computing Honors Society), Association for Computing Machinery(ACM), Mixed Student.

High School Diploma, 4.88 (Valedictorian)

Activities and Societies: California Scholarship Federation(President), League of Education Committee(Co-President), National Honors.