Hi, I'm Jake Bukuts.✌
I graduated from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science. Most of my day to day work revolves around front-end and back-end web development.
Here I blog about random code I've written.
Education
University of South Carolina
BS Computer Science
Aug 2017 - May 2021
Columbia, SC
Overall GPA: 3.89
Graduated Magna Cum Laude
Work History
Associate Technology Engineer
IBM
May 2023 - Current
Raleigh, NC
- Developed technical learning content for various IBM Cloud offerings
- Created documentation site using Gatsby framework and React to host learning content
- Wrote automated pipeline via GitHub Actions for deployment of site
- Automated process of localizing long-form content using translation APIs
Associate Software Developer
IBM
May 2021 - May 2023
Raleigh, NC
- Developed in an agile environment at Red Hat Marketplace
- Implemented and maintained new features on large codebases
- Wrote back-end REST API endpoints using Node, Express.js, and MongoDB
- Extensive front-end development with React and Next.js to create customer-facing web pages
- Managed version control via GitHub
Intern Backend Developer
University of South Carolina
May 2019 - May 2021
Columbia, SC
- Collaborated with researchers to build a web application for a computer vision project
- Wrote back-end REST API endpoints using Java Play Framework
- Built PostgreSQL database to contain processed data
- Connected database to the back-end using JDBC and Hibernate
- Wrote bash scripts and cron jobs to create a custom CI/CD pipeline for deployment and database backup
- Created pipeline to input batch jobs to a cluster using Apache Airavata
Lab Assistant
University of South Carolina
Jan 2019 - Jan 2020
Columbia, SC
- Conducted an in-person lab on the basics of Java programming
- Covered topics such as OOP principles, data structures, and recursion
- Created slide presentations to coincide with lab guidelines from the professor