Summary
Rory Hemmings is a UCLA computer science student and developer with roughly a decade of hands-on experience building scalable web platforms, infrastructure, and research-oriented tooling. He has shipped production systems as CTO of a delivery startup and interned at Palantir and JPL, where his Python optimizations sped test suites by up to 96%. Rory blends interests in cybersecurity, machine learning research, and game-engine development—having built a multi-threaded ML-powered video transcriber and authored CTF challenges for UCLA’s competitive team. Comfortable across React/Express, Python, and cloud storage, he also leads projects end-to-end from architecture to documentation and team mentoring. Based in New York, he pairs high academic performance with practical impact, centralizing multi-terabyte media libraries and automating complex operational workflows.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.952, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.952 at University of California, Los Angeles