John Grese Email & Phone Number

Sunnyvale, California, Us

I’m a software engineer on Illumio’s data experience team. Illumio is a cybersecurity company focusing on zero trust segmentation. Check out how Illumio’s products can isolate attacks, uncover vulnerabilities, and secure your data. https://illumio.com

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Working on testing safety and security properties of neural networks with Marabou, (an SMT-based formal verification framework), Python, and Tensorflow.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

I worked as an engineer on both the Yahoo Mail iOS and web clients. On the iOS app, we used Swift, Objective-C. On the web client, we primarily used JavaScript, CSS, NodeJS, and ReactJS. Responsibilities included building new features in the clients, refactoring/maintaining existing core functionality, improving performance, building & enhancing the automated testing infrastructure, implementing security fixes, building & maintaining reusable libraries, mentoring interns & new college grads, interviewing and university recruiting.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Our team built an application which promoted select Yahoo content to various social media outlets, and measured changes in traffic to the promoted content. For the front end, we used EmberJS, D3, and NodeJS for the front-end. On the back-end, we used Java Spring, SQL, and PIG/Hadoop. We also worked on a custom web-based content authoring tool, which was developed using Backbone JS.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

In Yahoo’s Advertising and Data group, I worked as a software engineer on several applications in Yahoo’s advertising ecosystem. Our team’s main goal was to collect and analyze data pertaining to video ads. We built and maintained a series of dashboards in EmberJS, D3, and NodeJS to surface patterns and issues in the video ads platform, and contributed JavaScript and ActionScript to Yahoo’s video ad player. Also, developed a video syndication platform, which could be used to embed videos on third-party sites for a share of the ad revenue. We also maintained and added features to Yahoo’s ads booking platform, which was written using the Java Spring framework.

While working on my Computer Science degree, I started JMG Software Consulting and worked as a freelance software engineer. I built & maintained a number of websites, web applications, custom content management systems, mobile applications, and also contracted with other web development businesses.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

I worked with Georgia State’s Psychology & Linguistics departments to build a custom web application to help people improve their vocabulary. The site consisted of natural language processing, video components, and was primarily built using PHP, SQL, JS, HTML, and CSS.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

I worked as an Associate User Interface Engineer on the front-end of AutoTrader.com’s consumer website. Responsibilities included designing and building HTML templates for email marketing campaigns, fixing UI bugs, and working on features. We used mostly HTML, CSS, & JavaScript, and JSP.

Westlake Village, Ca, Us

I managed the guitar department, and also worked as a salesperson. I sold guitars, amplifiers, accessories, and pro-audio gear. My other responsibilities included organizing, maintaining, merchandising the inventory of the guitar department, and supervising a group of salespeople.

Master Of Science - Ms, Electrical & Computer Engineering

B.S., Computer Science