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Computer Science · Machine Learning · Product

4th-year CS student at Swarthmore College. Co-founder of AlgoArena. Building products & publishing research at the intersection of ML and software engineering.

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A builder at
heart.

I'm driven by one thing. Technology should solve real problems. From founding a tech literacy program that's helped 1,000+ seniors navigate the digital world, to building AlgoArena, a competitive programming platform with 5,000+ problems. I turn ideas into products people actually use.

My research at UIUC and USDA ARS applies machine learning to agriculture. That means predicting chick viability with 98.8% accuracy and building interpretable tools for crop health monitoring.

I studied abroad in Copenhagen (DIS, Spring 2025) and was awarded the Medici Project Grant from the 1517 Fund. Outside of work, you'll find me on the basketball court or automating tedious tasks.

eli_young.py
class EliYoung:
  def __init__(self):
    self.skills = ["Python", "C++", "Unity"]
    self.passion = "Innovation"
    self.location = "Signal Mountain, TN"

Researcher

ML for agriculture at UIUC, USDA ARS, and Swarthmore

Founder

AlgoArena · CityPulse · Savvy Seniors · Lock In

Competitor

ICPC 5th place · Hackathon winner · Medici grantee

Where I've
worked.

Sept 2025 to Present

Co-Founder & Full-Stack Developer

AlgoArena, LLC

Co-founded real-time 1v1 competitive programming platform (5,000+ problems, ELO matchmaking). Full-stack Next.js 14 / TypeScript / Firebase with Stripe, SendGrid, and Firestore security rules. Integrated OneCompiler API (16 languages) and AI mock interviewer (Deepseek, Cartesia TTS).

Next.jsTypeScriptFirebaseAI/TTSStripe
Sept 2025 to Present

Applied ML Researcher

USDA ARS & Swarthmore College

Engineered time-series features for EPG analysis (FFT, wavelets, sliding windows). Optuna/SMOTE pipelines achieved 31% F1 gain via novel position-encoding features. Benchmarked MOMENT and AdaBoost with USDA ARS, Auburn, and Harvey Mudd.

Time-Series MLSignal ProcessingOptunaPython
June 2025 to Jan 2026

Contract Software Engineer

Calibrr Social

Reduced API rate limiting with debouncing and cache optimization, cutting API calls by 75%. Built profile likes, smart email notifications, and broken link reporting via EC2, AWS Lambda, and SES. 97+ commits across iOS (Swift), Laravel PHP, and AWS.

SwiftAWSLaravelDynamoDB
May 2025 to Aug 2025

Research Assistant, REU Fellowship

Center for Digital Agriculture, UIUC

ML on 690 eggs' VNIR spectroscopy for chick mortality and sex prediction. Achieved 98.8% mortality and 59.5% sex accuracy (100% on confident predictions). PCA for wavelength selection addressing 6.5B+ annual culls.

PyTorchTransformersMeta-LearningSpectroscopy
Sept 2024 to Apr 2025

Software Engineering Intern

Torchman I.P.

Automated USPTO office action processing with OCR (Tesseract), regex, OpenAI API, and Selenium/BeautifulSoup. Built CSV export, summary generation, and PDF retrieval from Google Patents.

PythonOCROpenAI APISelenium
Aug to Sept 2025

SEO Intern

Haitian Global Health Alliance

Executed Yoast SEO audit across gheskio.org. Programmatically extracted WordPress/Yoast metadata via REST API. Prioritized updates with Google Keyword Planner and aligned content to global health queries.

SEOWordPressREST API

Selected
work.

Precise Swine & Dine

YOLO + morphological features for pig weight estimation (<5kg MAE). Won Livestock Monitoring Track, AI Foundry Hackathon.

YOLOMLPRandom Forest

Free Throw vs. Fatigue

Statistical analysis of fatigue on NBA free throw accuracy across 24 seasons and 30 teams with scraping pipelines.

PythonPandasMatplotlib

PredictaCare

ML for healthcare scheduling optimization. scikit-learn, Docker, Node/Express. Showcased at Drexel Philly Codefest.

scikit-learnDockerFlask

Swat Swap

Swarthmore-specific marketplace with advanced search, secure messaging, and MinIO storage. SCCS project lead.

Next.jsPostgreSQLPrisma

Cave Climber

Vertical platformer with dynamic platform generation, adaptive enemy AI, and power-up mechanics in Godot.

GodotGDScriptGame Design

A* Defense

Unity tower defense game with real-time A* pathfinding, multi-tier turret upgrades, and wave-based progression.

UnityC#A* Algorithm

Tech
stack.

Python C++ JavaScript TypeScript Java C C# SQL R Swift OCaml Bash
React Next.js Node.js Flask Docker AWS Firebase Git PyTorch TensorFlow scikit-learn Unity

Machine Learning

PyTorchTensorFlowscikit-learnComputer VisionNLPTime-SeriesTransformers

Web & Mobile

React / React NativeNext.jsNode.jsFlaskFirebaseAWSDocker

Game Dev

Unity / C#Godot / GDScriptGame Design3D Modeling

Beyond
code.

Savvy Seniors Tech Institute

Founder · June 2023 to Present

Founded tech literacy program serving 1,000+ seniors. Hired by Ascension Living's Alexian Village for weekly "office hours" sessions.

ICPC Team Member

5th Place · NA South Division 2

Competed at ICPC Mid-Atlantic Regional at Wilkes University, solving complex algorithmic problems under time pressure.

SCCS Project Lead

Swarthmore College · Feb 2024 to Dec 2025

Led Swat Swap project development and maintained servers with ~60 members in the Computer Society.

CS Student Mentor

Swarthmore · Oct to Dec 2024

Selected to mentor students in CPSC 31 and CPSC 35, promoting academic success and CS department engagement.

Let's
connect.

I'm actively looking for full-time SWE roles and research opportunities. Let's talk.