Jesse Mcdonald
Research Assistant at University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Mcdonald is a research-focused software engineer and recent PhD graduate in Computer Science from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with eight years of hands-on experience across academic research, teaching, and applied software projects. His work blends machine vision and bioinformatics—highlighted by an open-source tool for segmenting nerve cells in SEM retinal scans (CASTER)—with practical web and lab systems support for universities. As a research and teaching assistant he has strong mentorship and data-handling experience, and has tutored and supported students globally through platforms like Chegg. Based in Honolulu, he pairs rigorous academic training (4.0 graduate GPA) with a willingness to build end-to-end solutions, from hardware debugging to production websites. A detail that sets him apart is his track record of turning microscopy research needs into reusable software, demonstrating both domain empathy and engineering polish.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, 3.16, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, 3.16 at Lewis-Clark State CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer and Information Sciences, General, 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer and Information Sciences, General, 4.0 at University of Hawaii at Manoa
Github Skills (39)
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java9
distributed-computing9
development-environment9
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hpc8
segmentation8
distributed-systems8
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Jesse-McDonald/CASTER
Aug 2017 - Sep 2020
Computer Assisted Segmentation Tool Environment Revisit
Contributions:207 commits, 59 PRs, 160 pushes in 3 years 2 months
assistedsegmentation
Jesse-McDonald/Minecraft-leaderboard
Oct 2017 - Jul 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 14 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 10 months
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