Jason X. Xie

📞 (+1) 412 818 8052

📧 jasonx@tuta.com

🌐 www.jasonxie.me

💼 www.linkedin.com/in/jason-x-xie

Education

University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA est. May 2027

• B.S. in Information Science and Minor in Chinese
• Current GPA: 3.864.00Dean’s List 2 out of 2 semesters
• Coursework: Human-Centered Systems, Computation in Inf. Sci., Digital Privacies, Technical Writing, Matrices & Linear Algebra, Calculus-Based Physics I

Shady Side Academy Pittsburgh, PA 2019–2023

• High School Diploma
• Unweighted GPA: 3.644.33SAT Score: 1520
• Coursework: Discrete Structures, AP Calculus BC, AP Computer Science A (55 on test)

Work Experience

GenCyber Tech Support University of Pittsburgh June 2024

• Ensured a week-long summer camp for high school teachers went smoothly by dealing with real-time issues, answering questions and helping participants promptly.
• Allowed camp to start and end on schedule by collaborating with other student support members, communicating about and effectively dealing with problems.

Personal Projects

Typewriter Repair 2022–Now

• Fixes and cleans manual typewriters, usually bought from Goodwill or eBay.
• Participates and interacts in online communities of enthusiasts to get help and aid others.

Discord Bot 2020–2021

• Developed a Discord bot for a friend’s server using the discord.py library.
• Featured text-based games—including a spreadsheet-entry (office job) simulator—and a number of Discord-specific functions like user lookup and retrieving deleted messages.

Courses + Bootcamps

Air Force Assoc. CyberCamp (Advanced) University of Pittsburgh June 2023

• Learned and applied more advanced concepts of Windows and Ubuntu cybersecurity, including networking/firewalls, security policies/PAM.

Air Force Assoc. CyberCamp (Standard) University of Pittsburgh July 2022

• Learned and applied fundamental concepts of Windows and Ubuntu cybersecurity, including user management, file permissions, system monitoring.
• Team achieved second place in the final competition, the goal of which was to secure a Windows and Linux system.

High School Coding Bootcamp University of Pennsylvania Aug. 2020

• Learned about principles of web designHTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Applied skills learned by creating a website (in teams) which incorporated many aspects of web front-end development.

Skills

• Languages: Java, Python 3, HTML/CSS, R
• Technologies: Linux, Pandas, Figma
• Interested and knowledgeable about typography and graphic design