Greater New York Metropolitan Area · Open to relocation

Taylor Cox

Software Engineer

Building reliable web services, data-driven tools, and thoughtful user experiences.

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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner · Nov 2023

About

A builder at the intersection of product and engineering

I am a software engineer with a B.S. in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), focused on full-stack development, APIs, and production-ready systems.

From ASSISTments research microservices to Aquatecture business tooling, I enjoy shipping software that is maintainable, measurable, and useful to real users.

I am based in the Greater New York area and open to relocation for the right opportunity.

Experience

Where I have shipped and learned

IT Technician / Software Developer (Part-Time)

Aquatecture · Point Pleasant Beach, NJ

Aug 2023 – Present
- Developed the Material Key Document Generator to streamline material selection and reduce data entry errors.
- Support IT operations alongside custom software for day-to-day business workflows.
Student Research Assistant — Thesis Work

ASSISTments · Worcester, MA

May 2021 – Aug 2021 · May 2022 – Aug 2022
- Coordinated cross-functional teams of three on Affect and BKT services.
- Built scalable microservices aligned with existing ASSISTments engineering practices.
- Delivered production-oriented APIs for educational research and classroom use.
IT Technician (Freelance)

eSki · Worcester, MA

Jan 2022 – Mar 2022
- Launched a WordPress site for pre-orders and customer outreach.
- Authored temperature chamber control scripts for BMS component testing.
IT Technician / Software Developer Intern

Aquatecture · Point Pleasant Beach, NJ

May 2014 – Aug 2014
- Built an Overhead Calculator integrating with QuickBooks for profit/loss and billable hours.
- Managed pfSense firewall rules for geo-IP blocking and network security.

Projects

Selected work

CatanAI

Aug 2023 – Present

Personal Project · Point Pleasant Beach, NJ

Architected a Spring Boot API modeling Catan gameplay with a PPO reinforcement-learning agent in Python.
Used WebSockets for live game updates and a React frontend for games and training metrics.

Java Spring Boot
Python
React
WebSockets
Debian

Bayesian Knowledge Tracing (BKT) Service

May 2022 – Sep 2022

ASSISTments · Worcester, MA

Designed and developed a REST API for generating and efficiently retrieving skill mastery data.

Python
Flask
pyBKT
PostgreSQL
Docker

Affect API Service

May 2021 – Aug 2021

ASSISTments · Worcester, MA

Created a machine learning REST API to detect student affective states, with a UI to compare model performance.

Python
TensorFlow
REST
PostgreSQL

Material Key Document Generator

Aug 2023

Aquatecture · Point Pleasant Beach, NJ

Built a desktop tool to expedite material selection in Material Key and reduce manual entry mistakes.

Education

Academic foundation

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)

Worcester, MA

GPA 3.5 / 4.0

Graduated Dec 2022

Dean's List
Bachelor's Degree with Distinction

5000-level courses

Computer Networks
Database Systems I & II
Webware – Web Applications

4000-level courses

Human-Computer Interaction
Software Engineering
Student Research

Leadership & activities

Beta Theta Pi Fraternity

Vice President · Recruitment · Communications · Finance

Worcester, MA · Aug 2019 – Mar 2022

Cyber-Security Club

Member

WPI, Worcester, MA · Aug 2018 – May 2022

Skills

Tools I reach for

Languages & data

Python
Java
C
JavaScript
HTML/CSS
React
PostgreSQL

Platforms & tooling

Docker
Debian/Ubuntu
Windows
VS Code
Postman
pgAdmin

Design & collaboration

Figma
Lucidchart
Microsoft Office
Google Workspace

Contact

Let’s connect

I am open to software engineering roles, collaborations, and conversations about ed-tech, APIs, and practical ML systems.

taylor@coxintl.com (732) 939-6649 LinkedIn

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