I'm a software developer who uses programming as a tool
to solve real problems.
I like thinking about interesting problems, taking apart
programs, and cooking.
I've interned at the Manulife RED Lab
prototyping
unique solutions for problems faced in the financial
industry
and at WatrHub creating
scalable tools to collect and process documents from
thousands of municipality websites.
I'm currently searching for a full time role starting April 2018
Email: jjestrel@edu.uwaterloo.ca
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A tool to create affordable personalized meal plans
LinkToProjectAttempt at reverse engineering Namco's Rally-X Game
LinkToProjectSimulating leveraged stock trading
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LinkToProjectJay is very driven, self-motivated and understands the demands of a startup environment. We relied on Jay to overhaul our data infrastructure, and create a more robust architecture and he was able to deliver in a very impressive manner.- Sunit Mohindroo, Chief Product Officer at WatrHub
Jay is a technically talented individual with a impressively wide breadth of knowledge. He was instrumental in supporting his teammates in achieving their goals and excelled on his own as well. His skills and level-headed and well-informed perspective would be an asset to any team.- Ali Tariq, Solutions Prototype Lead at Manulife RED Lab
Jay is an extremely intelligent, hardworking developer that knows what it takes to build production level software with proper design. He has the strange ability to maintain great practices and write scalable code. When you find someone who searches for innovative solutions and goes all the way home to implement it at the end of the day, you know that he's going to be a hit in the industry. I am definitely going to come to him next time I want to build another production level enterprise application in the future.- Andrew Andrade, Co-founder at PetroPredict
Jay is a capable programmer who can work well in groups or on his own to deliver production-ready code. He makes himself available as deadlines close in and he is very easy to work with.- Daniel Bernhard, Principal at db 3rd Sector Consultancy
