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.