Jason Der

Software Engineer

About

I’m currently studying computer science and based in Toronto. Super interested in all areas of tech whether it be ml/ai, infra, distributed systems, product: basically anything where good decisions under the hood turns into something someone actually enjoys using.

Experience

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BMO

Software Engineer Intern

Sept 2025 — Dec 2025

BMO operates high-volume payment systems. Worked on pushing out customer features and led AI initiative to port payment gateway backend code to TypeScript

Ericsson

Software Developer Intern

Jan 2025 — Aug 2025

Powers the infrastructure behind modern telecom networks. I worked on microservice deployment tooling, monitoring, and distributed systems to make scaling radio networks easier.

Statistics Canada

Software Developer Intern

May 2024 — Aug 2024

Canada's national statistical agency. I worked on data pipelines and internal tools used to process and analyze statistical data to ensure accurate data all the time.

Education

University of Ottawa

Computer Science

Expected Dec 2027

Projects

2026
Miru

AI journaling app

Multi-agent architecture with embeddings and an emotion classifier to surface patterns in journal entries

2026
Hack the 6ix

Hackathon platform

Led design and architecture powering registration, participant management, and event operations

2025
OncoVision

ML explainability tool

CNN-based image classification for early skin cancer detection with Grad-CAM explainability

2025
Similarity Search

Search engine

Semantic similarity search engine to retrieve contextually relevant results across large collections

Skills

Languages
Frontend
Backend
Infra