elijahotarr@gmail.com | linkedin.com/in/elijahotarr | US Citizen | oriont.net
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
Expected Graduation: December 2026
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Atlanta, Georgia
Concentrations: Intelligence & Theory
GPA: 4.0/4.0
Experience
Software Engineering Contractor San Francisco, California (Remote)
- Deployed smart contracts with the Solana, NEAR Protocol, and Ethereum blockchains
- Programmed discord bot in TypeScript to retrieve and display data from blockchain
- Devised and implemented NFT market maker bot and token arbitrage bot to make a profit off of trading
MVCode | June 2019 – December 2020
Software Development Intern San Francisco, California
- Refactored production Minecraft server system on Ruby on Rails and AWS to speed up student interaction (starting, stopping, command control) with server
- Implemented API response caching with Redux to teacher check-in page on React Native mobile application to use less memory, load faster, and improve UI
- Upgraded backend services on production site including QT, Elasticsearch, Capybara testing framework, and Selenium
Eurisko | March 2021 – August 2021
Machine Learning and Computer Science Tutor Los Angeles, California (Remote)
- Taught advanced models including K-Means Clustering, K Nearest Neighbors, and K-fold cross validation
- Explained feature selection techniques including forward and backward selection
- Taught languages such as SQL, algorithms including minimax, and general good coding practices
- Prepared students for use of models in real world situations
Personal Projects
3D Voxel Model Generative Adversarial Network | August 2021 – December 2021
Research Project
- Researched advanced machine learning models including generative adversarial networks (GANs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and convolutional neural networks (CNNs)
- Formulated GAN to generate 3D models and trained it on a dataset that I expanded using data augmentation
- Published overview article on my website
ORION-1 8-Bit Functional Single Core CPU | March 2020 – August 2020
Computer Engineering Project
- Engineered from scratch a Turing-complete CPU on breadboards with 74 series logic chips and transistors.
- Learned about processor design and how computers work from first principles
- Published overview article and video on my website, oriont.net
Skills
Languages: English, French
Programming: TypeScript, Javascript, Elixir, Rust, Java, Python, C#, C++, C, Ruby, SQL
Tools: Git, AWS, Docker, GitLab, NodeJS, React, Unity, Rails, Phoenix, Firebase, Blockchain (Solana, NEAR, Ethereum), TensorFlow 2, PyTorch
Activities
Delta Upsilon Fraternity; 1st Trombone in GT Marching Band, Pep Band, and Jazz Ensemble; GT Agency (Machine/Deep Learning Club)