Jack Sweeney is a software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building backend systems and data integrations, currently applying his skills as a Fuel Enterprise Application Analyst at Wawa. He holds a Computer Software Engineering background from Drexel and has delivered production software across healthcare, legal, and retail contexts, including stints at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Jack is especially fluent in processing live telemetry—his open-source plane-notify project ingests ADS-B flight data to detect takeoffs, landings, and safety events and can broadcast alerts to platforms like Discord and Mastodon. That project highlights his strength in API integration, real-time event detection, and pragmatic automation rather than just theoretical ML. Colleagues describe him as a data-driven problem solver who turns noisy streaming inputs into actionable notifications and reliable services. Based in Philadelphia, he blends enterprise discipline with a hobbyist’s curiosity for aviation data that informs his engineering choices.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Drexel University
Notify if a selected plane has taken off or landed using ADS-B data. Compares older data to newer data to determine if a landing or takeoff has occurred. As well as nav modes, emergency squawk and resolution advisory notifications. Can output to Twitter, Discord, Mastodon, and Telegram
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:4 reviews, 384 commits, 52 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jack appears to be a back-end developer focused on implementing the core functionality of the plane-notify project. Their contributions primarily involve modifying the core Python script (`OpenSky Bot.py`) to integrate with external APIs (OpenSky and potentially ADSBX), process flight data, and trigger notifications. The commits demonstrate an understanding of API interactions, data processing, and the implementation of logic for detecting flight events (takeoff and landing). They also added Discord notifications
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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Jack Sweeney - Fuel Enterprise Application Analyst