Jake O.

Software Engineer

2024 - Current

Summer Fellow

2024 - 2024

1 of 4 Fellows selected from 6,000+ applicants for Thrive’s inaugural Summer Fellowship. Includes $40,000 education stipend, mentorship from the Thrive team, exclusive Fellow events to develop entrepreneurial acumen, and working directly with portfolio organizations.

Founding Engineer

2023 - 2024

Ghost AI is a pre-seed startup founded by former OpenAI research scientist and co-founder of MineRL (acquired by OpenAI), Will Guss. Ghost automates outbound sales. First hire at the company. Built AI sales outbound agents (both automated and human in the loop) achieving overall reply rates up to 32% per outbound campaign. Built pipeline to send emails through both Gmail and Mailgun APIs, set up cron job to retrieve new messages across multiple inboxes, and created custom CRM for internal use to view email threads and approve outbound emails with shadcn/ui. Backers: - AI Grant (Batch 1): Accelerator co-founded by Nat Friedman (former CEO of GitHub) and Daniel Gross (former Y Combinator Partner). Includes summit in SF to network and learn from founders of Stripe, Shopify, Instagram, and others. 250k uncapped SAFE and 550k credits (Azure, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, etc) - Swift Ventures

Full Stack Developer

2023 - 2023

- Worked on GhostWrite, a Chrome extension for Gmail and Outlook automating email writing with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 for ~40,000 MAUs - Reduced server costs by 60% saving ~$1,500 per month by restructuring React Query implementation - Added support for email generation in 26+ languages used 12,000 times since launch - Refactored codebase away from Gmail specific implementation to be platform agnostic reducing time to integration on new platforms (Outlook, ZenDesk, etc) by 70% - Expanded pricing system to a credits based system for each pricing tier while supporting both usage based and flat payment plans on the Stripe API, which led to 3x increase in MRR - Released Outlook.js an open-source API to parse, cache, and interact with data on the Outlook Web App

University Fellow

2023 - 2023

1 of 11 college students selected for Comma Capital's inaugural university fellowship to meet with founders in the network and connect with other builders at schools like UPenn, Berkeley, and Duke

Teaching Assistant, Computer Science I

2022 - 2023

- Host weekly office hours to tutor 40+ students on course concepts like object-oriented programming and other fundamentals - Write shell script to automate student assignment retrievals from GitHub for 150+ students - Lead weekly discussion section for 20 students performing live coding to demonstrate problem-solving techniques - Grade weekly assignments for 20 students providing comments on code readability, functionality, and efficiency

Machine Learning Research Assistant for Prof. George Mohler

2022 - 2023

- Develop novel application for author topic machine learning models to explore police "use of force" narratives - Train model using Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Gensim Python library to better understand officer response to varying dispatch scenarios - Use Pandas for data manipulation and SpaCy for natural language processing on over 70.5 MB of text data

Open Source Software Engineer

2023 - 2023

- Built hub showcasing all templates for first open-source TypeScript LLM management library that gained 900+ GitHub stars and 600+ npm downloads in first four days after launch - Created first example for users of the Nextjs API implementation of LLM completion code - Collaborated with lead software engineer to implement first version of data loaders for sources such as Notion and Slack - Primary contributors decided to stop future development due to LangChain's expansion into TypeScript

Innocence Program Legal Intern

2022 - 2022

- Write 5-page intake memorandums on potential clients’ cases for BCIP’s trial attorneys to highlight key points of their trial and/or appeal that may have led to a wrongful conviction and provide recommendation on whether BCIP should take the case - Investigate previous counsel of BCIP clients to obtain trial transcripts and case notes to strengthen client’s case

Sales Advisor

2019 - 2022

- Led the store in job qualifications, attaining 50+ certifications, despite being part-time - Finished 3rd place out of 80 employees in number of credit card applications for 2021 - Worked with clients to identify specific needs for the best product, installation, and protection solutions - Assisted coworkers by answering questions and supporting them in efforts to meet client expectations

Software Development Intern

2022 - 2022

- Automated testing of healthcare startup’s patient assessments process with React Testing Library and Jest programming libraries, which covered 97% of 4 components and their corresponding API calls that are used in every assessment - Modernized website’s stylesheets using Sass - Leveraged Git and GitHub to perform all code updates and version control

Analyst Internship

2020 - 2020

- Created a memorandum for a new idea detailing the business and giving insight to its possible growth attributes - Attended weekly meetings discussing possible business acquisitions at all stages (about to close, looking to acquire, and new ideas)