Hi, I'm Jordan.

I'm an Informatics student at the University of Washington.

About

My name is Jordan, I'm a student studying Informatics at the University of Washington. I have been teaching myself to program since 2019, and have focused my efforts in web development, server-side applications, and data science applications. My most recent project involved working at the University of Washington's School of Oceanography as a research assistant, building an interactive web application for the visualization of paleoclimate data reconstructions. You can check it out at https://pv.jortuck.com. Currently, I am serving as a Teaching Assistant for INFO 201: Foundational Skills for Data Science, helping students begin their data science journeys.

Experience

Work

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

December 2024 - Present
Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  • Teaching Assistant for INFO 201: Foundational Skills for Data Science (taught in R).
  • Led quiz section of 25 students through lecture reviews and group assignments, ensuring all course content was digested and understood by students.
  • Grade and score completed assignments in a timely manner.
  • Host office hours for additional student support outside of class and monitor the course chat for follow up questions.
Data ScienceLesson PlanningR (Programming Language)

Undergraduate Research Assistant

June 2024 - August 2024
School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  • Communicate and work closely with my advisor (Gemma O'Connor) on the required features for the app, ensuring all measures are followed to maintain data clarity and integrity.
  • Use Svelte, Highcharts, and TailwindCSS to develop a responsive, fast, user friendly interface that facilitates meaningful interactions with the data.
  • Develop a REST API using Python and Fast API to support efficient querying of large data sets while maintaining low bandwidth usage when transporting data.
  • Configured, deployed, and optimized AWS Lambda functions for serverless architecture, ensuring seamless scalability and cost-efficiency in a cloud-based environment for the backend API.
  • Implemented automatic deployments of the front end to Cloudflare pages to ensure high availability.
View Project Climate ResearchData VisualizationPythonSvelteTailwindCSSTypeScript

Education

University of Washington.

Bachelor of Science - Informatics, Expected June 2027

  • Minor in Mathematics.
  • Member of the Husky Marching Band.
  • Deans List Recipient: Autumn 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024, Autumn 2024.

Featured Projects

A free and open-source music bot built with Java for streaming music into your discord calls.

An open-source web app for visualizing climate data reconstructions, built during my time as an Undergraduate Research Assistant for the University of Washington School of Oceanography.

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Contact

Fill out this form to send a message directly to my inbox! No matter what you have to say, I would love to hear from you! You can also reach me on LinkedIn if that's your preferred method of communication, my username is jortuck .