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Jacob Cavazos

Hello, I am Jake. I have a B.S. degree in Chemistry and spent about four years working as a research assistant in a theoretical and computational biophysics and chemistry laboratory. The bulk of my work was performing ab initio quantum calculations and simulations on small biomolecular systems, namely peptides and disaccharides which was a lot of fun because I got to run my jobs on some of the most powerful high-performance computing clusters in the world. After that, I couldn't find any opportunities that I enjoyed so I freelanced as a web developer learning a little PHP and MySQL. Then I became a little more serious and learned Bootstrap, Ruby on Rails, and JavaScript (jQuery AJAX Node ES6 React Webpack Vue) all of that was fairly recently and I was able to combine it with my Linux experience from the computational lab so I'm just about to start a new job in San Jose, California as a DevOps Engineering Consultant. I am working on the AWS Solutions Architect and Kubernetes certifications as well as learning Go and Python. I ended up on this website because I clicked a link on my Twitter feed. My non-coding hobby is amateur black & white photography.