Jacob Van Steyn
Software Engineer at Ranger SNF
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Van Steyn is a versatile software engineer and data scientist with 10 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across Python, C#, Java, and Swift. Based in San Francisco, he has delivered full-stack, auditable election tabulation software on AWS, designed real-time ML detection pipelines for a Discord moderation service that protected 300k+ daily users and removed over 500k malicious accounts, and implemented robotics pathfinding during internships. He excels at shipping secure, concurrent systems—whether rolling back statewide ballot counts or maintaining 24/7 cloud services—and moves quickly between research-grade ML (PyTorch, perceptual hashing, OCR) and pragmatic engineering. Comfortable leading projects or contributing individually, he combines rapid learning with a track record of driving organic growth and measurable impact.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at The Athenian SchoolB.S. Computer Science & Data Science, Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science & Data Science, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (29)
ddos10
discord10
keras10
discord-bot10
mlp-classifier10
python9
discord-py9
machine-learning8
gameplay8
minecraft7
django7
spigot7
pocketmine7
bukkit6
iota6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Jacobvs/RandomTimedCommands
Mar 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:40 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
Jacobvs/ML-Music-Analyzer
Feb 2018 - Nov 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes in 3 years 10 months
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