Jacob Neal

Working on the PXT Business Mobility Services team which offers a network of services to support candidates and employees when they move from one place to another for official purposes or need immigration support.

Responsible for:

* Designing and developing a backend API to vend what relocation packages are available for either candidates or employees based on the distance between their address and the work building address.

* Developing both backend APIs and frontend experience for intake questionnaires to support employee's applying for a Singapore Workpass Renewal or UAE Golden Visa.

* Developing the frontend experience for employee's applying for short term travel workflow.

Worked on the AWS Snowball team which offers large scale data transport solutions and edge computing capabilities to support a wide variety of use cases.

Responsible for:

• Using AWS Lambda for processing device state data to help track inventory for Snowball devices and help route them to appropriate orders placed through the AWS Management Console.
• Designing a new homepage for the Snowball AWS Management Console homepage and migrating from AngularJS v1 to ReactJS.
• Diagnosing firmware issues on Snowball devices that are out of commission and trying to resolve issues and meet fulfillment for orders.

Worked on the HP Indigo Solutions team to design and develop scalable workflow applications in the cloud using Amazon Web Services technologies.

Responsible for:

• Database performance and scalability.
• Designing a summarization task to efficiently move data from a large volume Amazon Redshift database to a high performance Postgres database.
• Optimizing database queries to reduce execution times and scale with larger volumes of data up to 300M records.
• Improving the performance of our service by 33% based on customer use cases.

Developed an application for iOS and Android to allow people to play chess online against one another. This project was being developed for Chessgames.com alongside several teammates, using C++ and the Qt Framework.

Responsible for:

• Scalable user interface design
• Customization tools for settings throughout the app like selecting different color themes and piece set graphics
• Movement system for pieces with a zoom on movement feature