Software Engineer
Jared Mahotiere
.NET and full-stack systems, data and ML engineering, embedded firmware. Shipped live AWS deployments across forecasting, feature flags, and workflow orchestration, plus core-mode Streaming ETL cloud delivery and production .NET services from Nucor internships. Available May 2026.
Summary
Focus
Software engineer graduating May 2026 from Purdue (BS EET, Computer Engineering Tech). Two summers at Nucor building production .NET services, real-time dashboards, and automated reporting systems in steel manufacturing.
Available for full-time roles starting May 2026.
- .NET & Full-Stack: Blazor dashboards, SQL Server optimization, Quartz.NET automated reporting, VB-to-.NET migrations.
- Data Engineering: Kafka/Spark/Airflow pipelines, ML forecasting (XGBoost, Prophet), AWS deployments on ECS/ALB/RDS/ElastiCache.
- Embedded Systems: ESP32/FreeRTOS firmware, binary protocols, DSP, industrial controls.
- Systems Programming: Redis-like cache in C, distributed workflow orchestrator, POSIX networking.
Experience
Work
Nucor Corporation - Software / Automation Engineering Intern
- Developed and maintained Blazor/.NET real-time operator dashboards and robust back-end services, enhancing process transparency and improving steel production workflows.
- Led system integration projects: scoped, specified, and coordinated implementation of new automation systems, ensuring seamless startup, cross-team adoption, and operational reliability.
- Managed and analyzed production data in SQL Server/QMOS databases; developed optimized queries and recommended new tables/columns to support process improvement.
- Built automated reporting and alert systems using Quartz.NET with real-time email notifications for maintenance and quality events, reducing manual monitoring and accelerating issue response.
- Migrated legacy Visual Basic applications to .NET/Blazor, reducing technical debt and supporting future scalability/maintainability; utilized Git for code management across concurrent streams, peer code reviews, and codebase integrity.
- Collaborated with production teams and led project meetings; conducted comprehensive testing and validation with multi-disciplinary stakeholders while prioritizing deliverables and shipping on time with high safety and quality standards.
Projects
Selected Work
workflow-orchestrator
TypeScript | Node.js | Redis Streams | PostgreSQL | AWS ECS
Distributed workflow engine with DAG validation, Redis Streams dispatch, durable Postgres run/task state, idempotent retries, and dead-letter handling.
- Benchmarked at 25/25 successful runs in 15.94s (1.57 runs/s).
- AWS deployment validated on ECS Fargate with ALB, RDS, and ElastiCache, then deprovisioned to manage cost.
- Includes deterministic demo seeding and reproducible deploy/teardown scripts.
IoT Streaming ETL Pipeline
Apache Kafka | PySpark | Airflow | Great Expectations | Terraform | AWS
Streaming ETL pipeline processing 100+ events/sec using Kafka and Spark Structured Streaming.
- Implements Bronze/Silver/Gold architecture, checkpointed recovery, and validation via Great Expectations.
- Prometheus/Grafana observability with production-style metrics and alert coverage.
- Infrastructure provisioned with Terraform on AWS (MSK, S3, VPC, ECR); currently deprovisioned to manage cost.
Retail Sales Forecasting Dashboard
Python | FastAPI | XGBoost | AWS ECS | Terraform | SQL
End-to-end ML forecasting platform deployed on AWS ECS Fargate.
- Achieved XGBoost R² = 0.91 and ~11% MAPE with production-oriented evaluation.
- Backed by FastAPI inference, Streamlit UI, and Terraform-managed infrastructure.
- Active live deployment with endpoint and health verification.
Feature Flag Platform
TypeScript | Node.js | React | PostgreSQL | Redis | AWS ECS | Terraform
Multi-tenant feature flag control plane with deterministic rollout targeting, RBAC, idempotent writes, and publish/rollback workflows.
- Deployment was validated on AWS ECS Fargate behind ALB with RDS Postgres and ElastiCache Redis.
- Currently deprovisioned to manage cost; reproducible with Terraform and deployment scripts.
cachekit
C (C11) | POSIX | TCP | RESP
Built a Redis-like in-memory cache server in C with a select-loop TCP engine; benchmark harness runs 10,000 SET/GET pairs per trial.
- Implemented Robin Hood hashing + approximate LRU eviction with O(1) average key access.
- Added TTL expiration, RESP command parsing, and RDB snapshot load/save with ASan + Valgrind CI coverage.
Help Westmoreland
Next.js 16 | React 19 | TypeScript | Tailwind v4
Shipped production disaster-relief platform with 3 intake flows (contact/volunteer/partner), donation integration, and accessibility-first UX.
- Implemented Donorbox + Formspree workflow plumbing and GA4 event instrumentation.
- Built SEO baseline with JSON-LD, sitemap/robots automation, and Open Graph/Twitter cards.
syncboard
Next.js 15 | Socket.io | PostgreSQL | Prisma | NextAuth
Built real-time collaborative Kanban with optimistic UI + Socket.IO sync for 4 mutation paths (create/move/update/delete).
- Implemented reconnect/offline handling, presence heartbeat tracking, and last-write-wins conflict merge logic.
- Delivered REST endpoints with Zod validation on a Next.js + Prisma/Postgres + NextAuth stack.
Telemetry Node
ESP32 | FreeRTOS | C | Python
Built ESP32 telemetry logger streaming 25-byte UART frames (20-byte payload + CRC16) for 9 sensor fields with Python CSV decode tooling.
- Implemented fixed-rate FreeRTOS sampling for MPU6050 accel/gyro plus temperature and battery channels.
- Added deterministic protocol fixtures and CI checks for firmware build + host decoder validation.
Cloud
Deployment Status
Retail Forecast Dashboard
Status: Live | Verified: Mar 2, 2026
ECS Fargate service behind ALB with Terraform-managed AWS infrastructure.
- Endpoint checks:
/,/docs, and/api/healthreturned HTTP 200. - Stack: ECS, ALB, ECR, CloudWatch, Terraform.
Feature Flag Platform
Status: Deprovisioned | Last Verified: Feb 19, 2026
Control-plane API and admin UI were validated on ECS Fargate with managed data stores.
- Historical checks:
/api/health,/api/flags, and/api/tenants/tenant-a/quotasreturned HTTP 200. - Stack: ECS, ALB, RDS Postgres, ElastiCache Redis, ECR, Terraform.
- Deprovisioned after verification to manage cost; redeploy is scripted.
Workflow Orchestrator
Status: Deprovisioned | Last Verified: Feb 19, 2026
API, worker, and UI services were validated on ECS Fargate behind ALB.
- Historical checks:
/api/healthand/api/workflowsreturned HTTP 200; seed create/trigger flow succeeded. - Stack: ECS, ALB, RDS Postgres, ElastiCache Redis, ECR, Terraform.
- Deprovisioned after verification to manage cost; redeploy is scripted.
Streaming ETL Pipeline
Status: Deprovisioned | Last Verified: Feb 19, 2026
Core infrastructure and shell path were validated; full managed services remain entitlement-gated.
- Core mode scope: MSK, S3 medallion buckets, VPC, ECR.
- Historical check: shell path on ECS Fargate + ALB returned HTTP 200.
- Full mode: EMR/MWAA/Redshift pending account service subscription enablement.
- Deprovisioned after verification to manage cost; redeploy is scripted.
Cost guardrails (updated Feb 25, 2026): retail-only keep-list by default, automated daily inventory/cost checks, and AWS budget/anomaly alerts configured through repo automation.
Contributions
Pull Request Contributions
PicoClaw - Open Source Contributor (PR #213)
Go | Provider Architecture | +1,798/-774 | State: Merged
Merged provider protocol-family refactor with compatibility adapters, shared protocol typing, and expanded auth/routing test coverage across 11 files.
Pull Request →PicoClaw - Open Source Contributor (PR #56)
Go | OAuth Device Flow | State: Merged
Merged device-code auth interval parsing fix for string/integer polling values with targeted regression tests.
Pull Request →PicoClaw - Open Source Contributor (PR #211)
Go | Security Hardening | +204/-27 | State: Closed
Active follow-up contribution focused on security hardening and CI reliability improvements; related Telegram handling updates are also under review in PR #251.
Pull Request →bloomberg/comdb2 (PR #5743)
C/C++/SQL | SQLite Security Backports | State: Open
Backported targeted SQLite security fixes for issue #3904 with source-build validation, full harness runs, and a published verification matrix tied to reproducible test IDs.
Pull Request →bloomberg/comdb2 (PR #5731)
Java | JDBC Metadata | State: Open
Preserved active metadata result-set cursors by isolating version lookup from getTables() flow, preventing iterator invalidation during JDBC metadata access.
Pull Request →sipeed/picoclaw (PR #251)
Go | Telegram Channel Reliability | +1,115/-88 | State: Closed
Fixed Telegram send failures for oversized outputs by chunking outbound messages, preserving placeholder-edit sequencing, and adding HTML/plain-text fallback tests for long payloads.
Pull Request →databricks/cli (PR #4504)
Go | Root Auth Resolution | State: Open
Fixed non-bundle auth resolution so workspace commands no longer implicitly load bundle default targets; preserved explicit bundle behavior via --target and added regression tests.
databricks/databricks-sdk-py (PR #1258)
Python | SDK Config Internals | State: Open
Fixed Config subclass attribute discovery and caching so inherited ConfigAttribute fields resolve consistently, with regression coverage for inheritance paths.
Pull Request →google/langextract (PR #359)
Python | Gemini Batch Cache | State: Merged
Stabilized cache-key hashing by supporting Enum and dataclass serialization in request signatures, removing a crash path in batch processing.
Pull Request →Skills
Tech
Languages
Frontend
Data
Backend / DB
Cloud / DevOps
Embedded
Testing
Education
Academics
Purdue University
Relevant Coursework: Embedded Digital Systems, Advanced Embedded Digital Systems (in progress), DSP, Advanced DSP, Industrial Controls, DAQ, Wireless Communications, Systems Development, IT Architecture, Network Engineering, Electronic Prototype Development, Concurrent Digital Systems
Leadership
Beyond Code
Delta Tau Delta | DEI Chair
Aug 2024 - Present
Launched mentorship and campus programs; created repeatable onboarding and engagement playbooks.
National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) | Member
Sep 2022 - Present
Team-based engineering projects in C#, Java, and Python; supported recruiting and community initiatives.
Contact
Get in Touch
Bear, DE | Open to software engineering, data engineering, full-stack, and embedded systems roles.