# Jonathan Oppenheimer

> CS @ Ava Labs, prev @ NASA JPL, Cisco

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jonathanoppenheimer

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Ava Labs
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States
pushing negative lines of code

### Founder @ Glass House Recycling LLC
Jan 2020 – Jan 2025 | Falls Church, Virginia, United States
• Founded curbside glass-pickup business with brother at age 17 to meet demand after Falls Church City stopped providing municipal glass recycling service, later incorporated, set up customer accounts and mailing/billing with limited reliance on third-party services
• Leveraged digital advertising and print/radio media (NBC, WAMU, NowThis) to grow customer base to over 100 residential households; online stories about business reached 550k+ views, with 5k+ reactions
• Administered all business enterprises including expansion into commercial space, winning ‘Best of Falls Church’ award in second year
• Acquired in 2025 by the largest glass recycling business in the area, and converted over 80% of customers to the new platform

### Research Support Developer @ Purdue's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
• Large-scale geospatial dataset analysis and federated data storage on HPC
• AnvilGPT semantic dataset search 
see: https://www.rcac.purdue.edu/compute/anvil

### Distributed Systems Engineering Intern @ Cisco
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Jose, California, United States
• Developed a Webex bot to streamline the initiation, monitoring, testing, and analysis of operating system builds for various network switches, merging multiple API endpoints into a unified tool
• Implemented a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system using a vector database and Llama 3.1, integrating it with the bot to automate error resolution for failed, large token, logs, creating significant time savings for 25+ engineers
• Consolidated bug tracking and operating system test-suite data in Elasticsearch, creating dashboards to monitor and visualize key metrics

### Software Engineer Intern @ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Pasadena, California, United States
• Prototyped new, cloud-based, extract transform load (ETL) pipeline for the Deep Space Network (DSN) Service Quality Assessment subsystem, supporting DSN usage analysis for NASA missions like Mars 2020, and Voyager
• Shifted on-premises scripts, triggers, logging, storage, and more to Amazon Web Services, notably achieving end-to-end performance for an ETL pipeline providing detail on the automatic provision of DSN equipment
• Enhanced error management, data transparency, and throughput to data warehouse while reducing dependencies
• Presented architecture to senior JPL engineers, was retained to upgrade 12 ETL pipelines during the academic year

### Instructor of Record @ Purdue University Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
• Led a lab section for two consecutive semesters, developed course content, graded homework, and worked with other section instructors to teach Data Science Labs: Calculus to positive student outcomes and evaluations
• Delivered course instruction covering topics such as function sampling and approximation, numerical differentiation and integration, introductory Python programming, and data acquisition with microcontrollers and sensors

### Software Engineer Intern @ SPACE GROUND SYSTEM SOLUTIONS, INC.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Alexandria, Virginia, United States
• Engineered synchronous client/server software packages for a remote ground antenna supporting ADS-B aircraft data
• Implemented all client-server communications and complete command and control of antenna with NASA’s GMSEC message architecture; achieved sub 100ms response times for 1500+ mile high-frequency message exchanges
• Developed custom driver for serial communications to an antenna rotator for user control, and real-time satellite tracks


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Purdue University

### Advanced Studies Diploma
George Mason High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jonathan-oppenheimer
- Portfolio: https://jonathanoppenheimer.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-13