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Simon Schueller

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Organizations Timeline

  • Capital One

    Capital One

    2 years, 1 month

    08/2024 - Present

    Software Engineer

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    Technology Development Program new grad software engineer

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    Backend development (Java, Spring, Go, Kafka, Snowflake, Redis, AWS)

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    Modernizing Enterprise Payments technology to asynchronously consume and produce to Kafka streams

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    Gracefully handling ~$500 million dollars across ~1 million transactions per day for multiple payment rails

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    Automated enterprise cloud architecture compliance checks through inner-sourcing contributions

    • AWS
    • Kafka
    • Java
    • Spring
    • Redis
    • Go
    • PostgreSQL
    • Snowflake
  • Outlier AI

    Outlier AI

    2 years, 6 months

    01/2024 - Present

    AI Research Consultant

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    Minimum 15hr a week remote consulting work

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    Completed hundreds of high-quality programming tasks which are used as training data for LLM models

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    Rewrote low-quality model responses and crafted challenging prompts for models across multiple projects for customers

    • gcp
    • python
    • java
    • react-js
  • University of Pittsburgh

    University of Pittsburgh

    2 years, 2 months

    08/2022 - 05/2024

    MS in Computer Science

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    Achieved a 4.0 GPA

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    Completed BS + MS degrees in Computer Science in just four years

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    Specialization in AI/ML

    • C
    • Python
  • Capital One

    Capital One

    3 months

    06/2023 - 08/2023

    Software Engineering Intern

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    Enterprise Data and Machine Learning

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    Won first place in hackathon with 500+ interns by creating AI powered slack message summarizer

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    Constructed server-less application to manage state of dataset schemas in abstraction between data-lake and producers/consumers

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    Efficiently processed data streams with 10,000+ events per minute

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    Implemented multithreading to reduce execution time by 75%

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    Created CI/CD pipeline and automated tests with 90% code coverage

    • AWS
    • Python
    • Kafka
  • Pitt Computer Science Club

    Pitt Computer Science Club

    1 year, 1 month

    05/2022 - 05/2023

    Club Officer

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    Lead for Pitt Computer Science Club's flagship program "Zero to Offer"

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    Over 90 participants

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    Led Session on building your brand + Project Bonanza

    • Gatsby.js
    • Github
    • Netlify
  • University of Pittsburgh

    University of Pittsburgh

    3 years, 2 months

    08/2020 - 05/2023

    BS in Computer Science

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    Completed degree in just three years with a 3.9 GPA (Summa Cum Laude)

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    Graduated with departmental honors

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    Achieved joint degree with the Frederic Honors College

    • C
    • Java
    • Python
    • R
  • Capital One

    Capital One

    3 months

    06/2022 - 08/2022

    Software Engineering Intern

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    Full stack web development

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    Invented tool for associates to create Capital One branded digital content

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    Crafted CMS and hosting for user creations

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    Saved 100s of hours for designers and users by rendering jobs programmatically, in minutes

    • AWS
    • React.js
    • TypeScript
  • University of Pittsburgh

    University of Pittsburgh

    1 year, 5 months

    01/2021 - 05/2022

    Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

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    Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for Data Structures (CS 0445) and Assembly language (CS 0447)

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    Held recitation with over 27 students

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    Coached students through projects during office hours

    • Java
  • Federated Hermes

    Federated Hermes

    4 months

    05/2021 - 08/2021

    Software Engineering Intern

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    Pioneered a vendor performance evaluation system

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    Built and enhanced trading analysis reports

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    Collaborated on a hack-a-thon project with business wide application

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    Developed, maintained, and executed scripts in workload management software

    • SQL
    • VBA

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