Jason Le Roux

This is a fully remote position, where we hold daily standups with majority of the team for increased cohesion as well as to encourage teamwork. Here, I performed the following:

• Participated in highly complex projects with customers, managers and end-users.
• Completed design and testing phases of software development life cycle.
• Authored code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches.
• Troubleshot and resolved performance issues for databases and software.
• Performed vulnerability patching and investigated and mitigated system weaknesses.

I work on academic research papers, which include conference papers, dissertations, original articles, etc. Most papers I work on are written by non-native speakers (generally professors belonging to a university or research committee), and thus, I am responsible for correcting grammar, vocabulary, and logical flow of information (often including formatting according to the requirements of a target journal).

The research topics fall within the fields of computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, and biomedical; thus, I often have to conduct my own research to properly fulfil the requirements as set out by my position and the needs of clients; many of my work orders require that I write a letter to the target journal so as to motivate the study, its significance, and why it should be accepted by the said journal.

I worked as an entry-level software developer for this young-cultured VR/AR startup. I initially interned here, where I was responsible for the maintenance, upgrading, and reskinning of a suite of mobile apps (think gym/exercise apps) that integrate with an exercise machine (Xamarin, Firebase, C#, iOS, Android).

After officially joining Sozo, I worked on some AR and VR apps (as well as continued development on the exercise apps); mostly face-overlay-type filters in Unity3D using OpenCV plugins for AR and making the existing company VR apps demonstration ready (for presentation to potential investors). An example is a VR tour guide of the Meerkat telescope array, which a sibling company was responsible for.