Summary
Jacob Schwartz is a Vice President of IT and early-career software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building back-end APIs, full-stack features, and data acquisition systems across student-led motorsport and health-tech teams. A Concordia University BCompSc (Information Systems) graduate, he has progressed from student programmer to VP of IT at Concordia SAE while leading the Data Acquisition & Electrical Subsystem for Concordia Baja Racing. Jacob combines pragmatic backend skills in Node.js and API testing with project management experience—having driven a large-scale epic from conception to release at Salus. He consistently pairs technical delivery with mentorship and outreach, running STEAM workshops for high-schoolers through YMCA partnerships. Curious and growth-oriented, he thrives at the intersection of embedded data systems and web services, bringing both hands-on implementation and organizational leadership to student engineering programs.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science - BCompSc, Information Systems, Bachelor of Computer Science - BCompSc, Information Systems at Concordia University
English, French