# Jack Connolly

> Software Engineer @ Zoox

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jackconnolly

I'm a software engineer with interests in Climate Tech, AI, Autonomous Vehicles, and Financial Services. Currently building the future of autonomy at Zoox! I have more than four years of experience in software engineering, architecting new products, scaling data intensive applications, and managing ETL pipelines. Skilled in C#, Rust, SQL, Python, Javascript/React and .NET framework.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Zoox
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Building autonomous vehicles at Zoox!

### Senior Software Engineer @ Mastercard
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Arlington, Virginia, United States
Leading architecture, design, and rapid prototyping of new products from 0 to 1, and supporting development through commercial release ($MM/yr revenue) 
Led design and launched executive-level curated reports and portfolio level forecasting projects on schedule 
Integrating an LLM-based chatbot into our platform, evaluating model accuracy and performance, improving relevance of queries using retrieval augmented generation (RAG) 
Act as technical lead for my team, mentoring junior engineers to greater levels of success

### Software Development Engineer II @ Mastercard
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Arlington, Virginia, United States
Worked on a team powering the Mastercard Intelligence Center suite of products by managing a massive distributed ETL pipeline that prepares (billions of rows per day of) Mastercard transaction data for flexible analysis by 100s of leading global financial institutions

### Software Development Engineer I @ Mastercard
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Arlington, VA
Led integration of multiple new data feeds into our product, comprising >1B transactions per day 
Built a data streaming application in Rust that is competitive with SQL Server performance in relevant use cases

### Software Engineer Intern @ Mastercard
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Arlington, VA
Worked to write software that improves the ease and scalability of predicting customer performance (C#/.NET)
Added measurements of bias into the modeling workflow, detecting if training data deviates from forecast data
Gained experience with the .NET framework and analytic modeling techniques

### Data Science Intern @ Perceptive Automata, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Cambridge, Massachusetts
Machine learning intern working on intelligent computer vision for self-driving cars.

Integrated new metrics for company’s deep learning models, including different loss functions, image perturbations and breakdowns by various categories
Explored methods to reduce the cost of data collection, saving over 70% on new data collection
Used supervised machine learning methods to analyze various aspects of psychophysical annotations
Became proficient with numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, with exposure to many architectures of deep CNNs

### IT Programmer Analyst Intern @ NextEra Energy Resources
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Juno Beach, Florida
Created   framework   for   dynamic   inclusion   of   integration   tests   into   application   build
Developed   PHP   web   pages   to   display   and   sort   data   from   a   SQL   database
Utilized   UiPath   RPA   to   automate   multiple   tasks   for   my   group


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Harvard University

### Master of Science in Machine Learning
Georgia Institute of Technology

### Suncoast Community High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jack-connolly21

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Last updated: 2026-04-01