# Christopher D.

> Software Engineer

Location: Bronx, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/christopherd

Hello, my name is Chris, and from a young age I have always found the experience of life to be fascinating, how is it that we are able to perceive the present moment? What triggers us into action, and how can we learn to live more in the present? This led me down a wide-spanning path of studying a combination of computer science and psychology, and the pleasant surprise of how interconnected these two subjects really are— unexpectedly so. Although clearer to many now with the advent of large AI models, early in my academic career it proved difficult to consolidate what I had learned in these two disparate fields, until it finally clicked. The crux of the connection is simple: computational irreducibility. The human brain is a prediction engine; or better to explain my point, a consolidation (reduction) machine. It attempts to create a model, however imperfect it may be, of our experience (evolutionarily for the purpose of homeostasis). Although research is ongoing, I believe this to be a purely cognitive (i.e. computational) process. With this lens, the intersection and value of studying psychology and computer science together becomes apparent: in the day and age where we are building "thinking" machines, understanding the nature of thought becomes all the more important.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ aRoboticsCompany
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Ossining, New York, United States

### Temporary Research Aide @ Cornell University
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Ithaca, New York, United States
- Refactored legacy codebases, enabling reproducible experiments in ligand-binding simulations.
- Explored energy efficient methods of optimization using clustering in spiking neural networks.

### Software and Data Engineer @ TCAT Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 | Ithaca, New York Area
- Analyzed 300+ GBs transit datasets using Python and SQL and reconstructed geospatial graphs.
- Built data pipelines to pull data from various SQL Views to allow seamless integration of data into powerful analysis tools.
- Built various other internal tooling used to data analysis.

### Remote Project Designer Instructor @ BlueStamp Engineering
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Remote
- Guided and helped students design, and build their own prototypes of projects, as well as document their work and prototype, including blueprints and a project website.
- Worked on potential projects that students may take on in the future, as well as updated out of date documentation for existing projects.

### Project Designer Instructor @ BlueStamp Engineering
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto, CA
Responsible for guiding high school students how to build and document advanced technological projects.

### Student Researcher @ NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater New York City Area
Worked under the NOAA CREST HIRES program, taking classes and conducting research.
- Performed case by case studies
- Backed up findings using statistical analysis


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Major: Psychology; Minor: Computer Science
Cornell University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2023

### High School
St. Raymond High School for Boys
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cdejesus26
- Website: https://gamma2653.github.io

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Last updated: 2026-03-20