About
Education, background, and where to find me.
I’m Dominic Jesse, a senior software developer focused on cybersecurity, AI, and plain coding for fun, as well as a believer in lifelong adult education.
Background
Since college, I've worked with a variety of technologies and frameworks. I started out in supply-chain logistics, primarily cleaning data and dreaming in Transact-SQL for Microsoft SQL Server, along with JS and JSP. After that, I worked at a startup and was introduced to Neo4j graph databases and ECMAScript. Finally, I graduated to Spring Boot and various databases. For the past 7 years I've concentrated on cybersecurity and authentication/authorization, continued with Spring Boot, adopted Python as my primary scripting language, and worked to help my company adapt to GenAI.
For my current personal project, I'm working on an app to use GenAI for information retrieval, but using limited AI calls. GenAI is expensive, both in terms of money and power, so I believe this is the way to go - strongly limited use of GenAI, use existing tokenization libraries first, and store the data in graph format. Based on (with permission) an idea on fractals and Hilbert space from Rudy Rucker's Mind Tools (W.H. Freeman and Co., 1987).
Education
- Bachelor Of Science in Computer Science — Roosevelt University · 2011
- Bachelor of Science in Journalism — Northwestern University