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Jason Dank

full-stack engineer.

I build full-stack systems for private markets on the Fidelity Private Shares platform. Before Fidelity I ran endpoint engineering across 20,000+ devices at Harvard University IT. On my own time I ship Swift apps — two of them on the App Store — alongside automation and AI/ML projects.

roles
7roles
shipped projects
10shipped projects
apps on the App Store
2apps on the App Store
endpoints managed
20k+endpoints managed
Core stack: React, Node.js, Java, Spring Boot, TypeScript, Python, Swift, SQL, Flask, Docker, AWS, CI/CD, PyTorch, NLP, Bash, PowerShell.
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About

Full-stack software engineer with experience across fintech, enterprise IT operations, and product development. I’m currently a Full Stack Software Engineer at Fidelity Investments, working on the Fidelity Private Shares platform — building scalable solutions for private market investments that serve both institutional and individual investors.

I got here by way of Harvard University Information Technology, where I spent two terms as an Endpoint Systems Engineer across a fleet of 20,000+ macOS, Windows, and Linux devices. Along the way I’ve fine-tuned language models, built CI/CD pipelines, shipped two apps to the Apple App Store, stood up a GPU-accelerated remote compute environment for model training, and published a senior capstone on replacing CAPTCHA with real-time computer vision.

I hold a B.S. in Computer Science — with minors in Data Science, Applied Mathematics, and Business Analytics — from Wentworth Institute of Technology, where I served as Executive Vice President of Student Government and President & Captain of the Sailing Team. More on that on the sailing page.

Private markets & fintech

Full-stack work on the Fidelity Private Shares platform — building for private equity and venture transactions end to end.

Systems design

Architecting web, desktop, and mobile solutions from data model to deployment, with the operational side handled too.

Automation & AI/ML

Outside the day job: fine-tuning language models, building ML pipelines, and scripting away repetitive operational work.

Leadership in practice

Running a 25-member sailing team and chairing a university board taught me the same thing engineering did: process beats improvisation.

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Work

7 roles, newest first.

Apr 2026 — Present

current

Full Stack Software Engineer

Fidelity Investments

Boston Seaport, MA — On-site

  • Build on the Fidelity Private Shares platform, developing scalable solutions for private market investments.
  • Ship full-stack applications with modern web technologies, improving the experience for private equity and venture capital transactions.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver financial technology used by institutional and individual investors.
ReactNode.jsJavaSpring BootPrivate MarketsFintech

Jan 2025 — Mar 2026 · two terms

Endpoint Systems Engineer Intern

Harvard University Information Technology

Cambridge, MA — Hybrid

  • Managed over 20,000 macOS, Windows, and Linux endpoints; maintained system stability across the university.
  • Acted as service owner and engineer for the university's data retention service.
  • Owned a 1,000-device remediation effort, closing a three-year backlog ahead of architecting a replacement process.
  • Built a Mac device renaming solution now used across Harvard departments, plus custom cross-platform monitoring applications.
  • Automated workflows with PowerShell and Unix scripting; contributed to cloud printing infrastructure.
  • Led large-scale stakeholder meetings and ran delivery in Jira using Agile practices.
ShellPowerShellJamf ProSCCMLinuxJira Align

Jun 2025 — Aug 2025

IT Services Consultant

Mouth Watchers LLC

Beverly, MA — Hybrid

  • Audited every technical system in the company, then engineered a migration from Network Solutions to Google for email and hosting.
  • Held total downtime to 15 minutes across the cutover and provided ongoing tier 1 support post-launch.
DevOpsGoogle WorkspaceDNSMigration

May 2025 — Aug 2025

Technical Program and Operations Manager

Wicked Pickleball (RSVP LLC)

Boston, MA — Hybrid

  • Managed a team of sales and marketing specialists; piloted private label and brand deal product lines.
  • Served as lead engineer and service owner for MVP testing and development of new platforms.
  • Oversaw contractors and drove projects to completion.
AgileMVP DevelopmentProgram Management

Jan 2024 — Jan 2025

Computer Science Tutor

Wentworth Institute of Technology

Boston, MA

  • Tutored students across the School of Computing and Data Science in 1-on-1 appointments and group review sessions.
  • Developed individualized plans for each student, tailoring support to their course needs.
JavaPythonCTeaching

Apr 2024 — Aug 2024

Technical Support Engineer Intern

Harvard University Information Technology

Cambridge, MA — On-site

  • Maintained security standards across the Allston/SEAS network for 2,000+ users; imaged and deployed machines to users and labs.
  • Built automation tools in PowerShell, Batch, and Python, and authored documentation that improved technician onboarding.
  • Mentored new contractors and worked with management on incident response during the 2024 CrowdStrike outage.
PythonPowerShellServiceNowJamfSCCM

May 2019 — Aug 2023

Sailing Instructor

Port Jefferson Yacht Club

Port Jefferson, NY

  • Taught sailing to 300–400 students (ages 6–75), developing comfort on the water and racing skills.
  • Instructed in group and private settings, bringing students to readiness for their first races.
InstructionRace Coaching
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Projects

10 projects — 2 on the App Store, 1 in public beta, 1 written up as a paper.

2026

HumanAuth — Replacing CAPTCHA with Real-Time Computer Vision

  • Senior capstone with Jack Denholm: a web-based biometric system that tells humans from automated agents in real time, using continuous behavioral analysis instead of static challenge solving.
  • An Angular front end streams webcam frames over a persistent WebSocket to a Python Flask backend, where MediaPipe face and hand landmark models feed six complementary liveness checks — micro-movement, 3D facial consistency, blink patterns, texture analysis, gesture challenge-response, and hand tracking.
  • Across 50 trials with four participants: 3.3s average completion against 7.0s for traditional CAPTCHA, a 92% authentication success rate against 80%, and 76% of simulated presentation attacks blocked against 67%.
AngularPythonFlaskMediaPipeWebSocketComputer Vision
sourceread the paper
2026

RegattaTrack — Regatta Positioning System

  • A course-plotting tool for one-design yacht racing: pick your club and the night’s mark list, build the course the way the Race Committee posted it, and get it plotted on a chart with true and magnetic headings and a distance for every leg.
  • Ported a static single-club reference app into a full client/server platform any yacht club can run — an Angular front end (standalone components and signals) over a FastAPI and PostgreSQL backend with JWT auth, plus a club-admin console for mark list CRUD and spreadsheet uploads.
  • Ships as a one-command Docker Compose stack and a Render blueprint, seeded with four Massachusetts Bay yacht clubs and their real mark data.
AngularFastAPIPostgreSQLDockerJWTRender
testflight beta
2025

BullBar — SwiftUI macOS App

  • Built a lightweight SwiftUI macOS utility that floats above all windows with an always-on-top strip of real-time stock quotes.
  • Routed market data through a secure Cloudflare Workers proxy so no user credentials are required, with clamped refresh intervals to stay inside free-tier limits.
  • Implemented customizable display, adjustable scroll speed, light/dark theming, and a low-power mode for battery efficiency.
SwiftSwiftUImacOSCloudflare Workers
app store
2025

Bartender-GPT — iOS App

  • Built and published an iOS app in Swift, optimized for iPhone with full functionality on iPad.
  • An ongoing project on the App Store that continues to receive feature updates.
SwiftiOSiPadOSApp Store
app store
2023

Barcode Scanning WebApp

  • Led design and delivery as chief architect / service owner / PM, owning the product roadmap for ML-based barcode detection.
  • Drove the full-stack integration effort and delivered a production-ready web application with 80%+ barcode detection accuracy.
  • Managed Agile project management in GitLab; led DevOps and hosting and built the CI/CD pipelines.
  • Implemented Excel-backed inventory uploads converted to SQLite, easing updates for non-technical stakeholders.
FlaskJavaScriptSQLiteMachine LearningGitLab CI/CD
live demo
2024

AI Model Fine-Tuning — Sailing Rules Assistant

  • Designed and implemented a Flan-T5 fine-tuning solution (Python-only codebase) to answer sailing rules questions and interpret racing scenarios.
  • Trained on structured JSON of instructions, optional context, and expected outputs; wrote the training and evaluation pipelines.
PythonFlan-T5NLPFine-tuning
source
2024

Remote Compute Environment for AI Fine-Tuning

  • Engineered a reproducible WSL2-based Linux training environment with containerized workflows on an HP ZBook Fury.
  • Solved WSL2's idle shutdown behaviour, configured persistent SSH over Tailscale, and set up GPU passthrough for CUDA workloads — enabling remote fine-tuning with zero idle shutdowns.
WSL2LinuxCUDATailscaleDocker
watch walkthrough
2024

HUIT Training ChatBot

  • Developed a Python NLP chatbot with a customtkinter GUI to solve documentation overload for new HUIT hires.
  • Integrated fuzzy search, semantic search (BERT embeddings), and named entity recognition so technicians can ask questions conversationally instead of digging through a knowledge base.
PythonNLPBERTspaCycustomtkinter
2023

CNN-LSTM Stock Market Prediction

  • Implemented a combined CNN and LSTM model in TensorFlow to forecast stock prices from historical data.
  • Engineered technical indicators (RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands) from yfinance data and added logging, model management, and actual-vs-predicted visualisation.
PythonTensorFlowLSTMCNNyfinance
source
2023

Linux Device Monitor — Dank's Squash Pie Monitor

  • Created a Python/PyQt5 desktop application that monitors multiple Linux systems from macOS or Windows over SSH across custom VLANs.
  • Polls CPU, memory, disk, and uptime metrics; deployed and active across Harvard Athletics and SEAS field support operations.
PythonPyQt5SSHLinux
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Leadership, Honors & Certifications

March 2026

Paragon Award

Wentworth Institute of Technology

  • Presented to a graduating student who has exhibited energy and enthusiasm for their leadership role during their years at Wentworth.
  • Awarded for significant and noteworthy contributions to the Wentworth community and for serving as a strong role model for classmates.

March 2026

Wentworth Honors Program

Wentworth Institute of Technology

  • Inducted into the university honors program.

Spring 2023 — Spring 2026

President & Captain, Wentworth Sailing Team

NEISA Conference — Dinghy Class (FJ / 420 / Lark)

  • Grew the team from two members to twenty-five and led it across 15+ regional regattas per season.
  • Ran registration, the executive board, fundraisers, scrimmages, and practices; worked directly with the coach on competitive goals.
  • Delivered the highest-performing season the program has had since 2019.

Fall 2025 — Spring 2026

Executive Vice President

Wentworth Student Government

  • Led the Board of Directors in reorganizing and optimizing all processes, facilitating increased collaboration between directors and university officials as chairman.
  • Applied Agile practices from co-op to student government, including a Jira board to keep initiatives on track.
  • Oversaw the creation of a committee to run a hackathon brokered between Student Government and the School of Computing and Data Science.
  • Implemented communication pipelines between all university units and board directors, optimizing feedback delivery.
  • Coordinated with the Provost, Registrar, and faculty to resolve a clerical application error involving minor completion requirements.

Fall 2025 — Spring 2026

Task Force on Gen AI & Academic Integrity

Student Body Representative, Wentworth Institute of Technology

  • Advised the task force on AI-based enhancements across campus and on integrating AI into the curriculum.
  • Explored methods to help faculty detect, document, and minimize GenAI-based academic misconduct.
  • Paneled at an AI Alliance event hosted at Wentworth alongside founders and CTOs of Boston-area AI and tech firms.

Fall 2025 — Spring 2026

Information Technology Steering Committee

Student Body Representative, Wentworth Institute of Technology

  • Guided campus-wide strategic technology decisions in partnership with the CIO, IT Executive Committee, and Project Management Team.
  • Reviewed business proposals ahead of meetings, shaping technology procurement and implementation strategy.
  • Contributed to a seven-figure learning management system procurement.

Fall 2024 — Fall 2025

Director of Business Affairs

Wentworth Student Government

  • Chaired the Business Affairs Committee; coordinated efforts between the student body and Dining, IT, Police, and Facilities.
  • Shipped a barcode scanner web app giving students real-time price data in the campus grocery store, and introduced halal and kosher items to the dining hall.

Dec 2024 — Apr 2025

Director of Technologies

Engineering Hope (Non-Profit) — Hacking Injustice 2025

  • Built the digital infrastructure for an intercollegiate hackathon hosted at Harvard University.
  • Procured tooling licenses ahead of the event and assembled a technical team to advise competing students.

Jan 2025 — Mar 2025

Jamf Certified Associate — Jamf Protect / Jamf Pro

Jamf

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  • Certified in Jamf Protect and Jamf Pro, endpoint security and mobile device management (MDM) solutions for Apple products.
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Education

2022 — April 2026

Wentworth Institute of Technology

Boston, MA

Degree

B.S. Computer Science

Cum Laude, a semester early

GPA

3.7 / 4.0

Minors

Data ScienceApplied MathematicsBusiness Analytics

Honors

  • Cum Laude — April 2026
  • Dean's List — every semester
  • Wentworth 2025–2026 Scholarship Report Recognition

Related coursework

Machine Learning (R)System Administration (Linux)Operating Systems (C)Algorithms (Java)Probability & Statistics for Engineers (R)Network Programming (Python)Linear Algebra & Matrix TheoryDifferential EquationsParallel Computing (C)
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Skills

Languages

PythonJavaSwiftJavaScriptTypeScriptC / C++SQLRBashPowerShellLC-3 Assembly

Full-stack & fintech

ReactNode.jsSpring BootNext.jsFlaskREST APIsSQLiteMySQLCloudflare WorkersRender

Machine learning & data

PyTorchTensorFlow & Kerasscikit-learnPandas & NumPyHugging FaceWeights & BiasesNLPData Visualization

Platform & DevOps

DockerAWSAzureCI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab)Linux AdministrationWindows AdministrationTailscaleCUDA / WSL2

Enterprise IT

Jamf Pro / ProtectSCCMServiceNowAsset TrackCisco CLIWiresharkHyper-VVMwareApple OS (iOS / macOS / watchOS / iPadOS / tvOS)

Ways of working

Agile / ScrumJira & Jira AlignMSFT ProjectTechnical WritingStakeholder ManagementMentoringPublic Speaking
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Recommendations

Jason worked with our Endpoint Systems Management team as a coop. He quickly integrated himself into the team and found several ways to add value. He helped solve a long running problem of automating and standardizing the names for Mac computers. He then switched platforms and coded a solution for a Windows issue. Jason is a strong team player, an inventive problem solver, and an excellent programmer. I am confident that he will add value to any organization he works for.

Kurt LevitanTechnical Architect, Endpoint Systems Management — Harvard University

Jason Dank's pursuit of a wide variety of academic knowledge has also led him to be actively engaged in various organizations on campus. Jason serves on the Wentworth Student Government as Executive Vice President and Chair to the Board of Directors. He represents the student body on the university's Information Technology Steering Committee and the School of Computing and Data Sciences AI task force. He is also president and captain of the Wentworth Sailing Team, and during the summer he competes in large yacht racing in Marblehead, MA. Jason is passionate about developing resources for artificial intelligence, specifically in fine-tuning AI modeling and application development.

Wentworth Institute of Technology2025–2026 Scholarship Report Recognition — Official academic profile
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Contact

I’m building on the Fidelity Private Shares platform out of Boston. Always happy to talk full-stack and fintech engineering, AI/ML tooling, endpoint systems at scale — or sailing. Reach out through any of these.

email

jason.dank@outlook.com

linkedin

linkedin.com/in/jason-dank

github

github.com/jdank417

jasondank.com — Boston, MAsailing résumé →