Summary
Jayden Barnes is a software engineer and Rutgers Computer Science sophomore (class of 2025) with hands-on internship and early-career experience building full-stack tools using Java, Node.js, React and TypeScript. He progressed from assistant supervisor to student supervisor at Rutgers OIT, developing leadership, training, and incident-escalation skills while supporting thousands of users. Summer roles at PGIM and Snap honed his cloud, platform, and backend skills—contributing Protobuf/Java features to ad systems and shipping an internal E2E tool that improved engineering efficiency. Comfortable across SDLC tasks from design and testing to deployment automation, he combines technical curiosity with customer-facing service experience. Based in Madison, NJ, he pairs a love of systems and teamwork with outside interests in speculative fiction and exploration, indicating a pragmatic yet imaginative approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at Rutgers University–New Brunswick