🎓 I am a Senior CS major at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. I was a firm believer that I would hate CS theory coming out of high school, but it has been growing on me more and more with every class I take. I should be graduating mid-2023.
👨💻 I started getting into web development freshman year of college because of a hackathon I was participating in, and have been in love with it ever since. However, my root will always be with Python. As such, my languages of choice are Javascript and Python, depending on the task. I also have a huge interest in the fields of Extended Reality, Cryptography (specifically dapps), and Artificial Intelligence (this is also my concentration).
💪 My biggest hobbies outside of software development are powerlifting and bodybuilding. While I haven't competed in an event since high school, I still enjoy pursuing my journey of finding my own body's limitations.
- Make education more accessible to kids K-12 : I strongly believe that no kid is born without a "brain for STEM". The beauty of STEM fields is that there are a million ways to arrive at the right answer, so why are we still trying to teach in such a cookie cutter layout?
- Contribute to making humans interplanetary : I have always loved space since I was a kid, and I grew up during the period SpaceX began making space popular again for the first time since 1969. I would like to be able to solve unique challenges that arise as we reach for the stars.
- Help with climate change reversal : At the rate we are moving now, climate change prevention is going to be too little too late. Down the road, it is on us to repair the harm we have done to the atmosphere to make the world a place we would want our kids and generations onward to live in.
Email : jackrrutland@gmail.com