Hi, I'm Jordyn O'Brien! I'm a fifth year Computer Engineering Co-op student at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. I am now planning to pursue a Master's degree in the field of Computer Security. Outside of school I enjoy running, travelling, reading, cooking and baking!

Work Experience

Software Developer Intern

Avalon Holographics • St. John's, NL

Sep 2023 – Dec 2023, Sep 2025 - Present

Avalon Holographics is building the world's more advanced holographic displays. I am currently on my second work term with the company as a member of their software team. Throughout my time there I have worked on house made applications for the holographic displays including simulators for the defence and medical industry, and video games!

Full Stack Developer

FliteX • Remote/Toronto, ON

Jan 2025 - Apr 2025

FliteX is a start-up that builds software applications for the airline industry. While I worked there I was able to work on applications related to flight safety and route optimization. I mentored two interns by helping them gain real-world front-end development experience. I also led sprint planning meetings and coordinated meetings with customers.

Research/Software Development Intern

Communications Research Centre (CRC) • Ottawa, ON

May 2024 - Aug 2024

While working at the CRC I assisted researchers by developing a web application to visualize interference patterns in 5G networks. This was apart of a project related to making better use of the available spectrum for wireless communications.

Network Specialist Intern

Bell • St. John's, NL

Jan 2023 - May 2023

During my time at Bell I was a memeber of their Access Engineering team whose work involved expanding Bell's fibre optic internet network into underserved rural communities in Newfoundland and Labrador. Some of my work included writing scripts to sort customer addresses, upgrading an application to be compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit devices and automating data entry.

Extracurriculars

Software Team Lead

Iceberg ASV • Student Design Team @ MUN

June 2023 - Present

Iceberg is a student design team at MUN that designs and builds an autonomous surface vehicle. I am currently the software team lead, where I lead other team memebers through the development of our ROS2 code to automate the mouvement of the boat! In the past I have attended competitions with the team in Norway and Florida!

Volunteer

Girls Who Game • Dell Technologies

Sep 2023 - Present

Girls Who Game is program hosted by Dell Technologies aiming to empower young girls accross North America to persue STEM related fields. I occasionally volunteer with the program as I try to do what I can to encourage more women to consider STEM.

Grad Commitee Memeber

Engineering Class of 2026 • MUN

Jan 2025 - Present

I am a memeber of my class's graduation commitee. Myself and the rest of the commitee plan and coordinate gradution related events including the iron ring ceremony and celebration gala. We also coordinate social events and fundraisers for the class.

Projects

Indoor Asset Tracking for Hospital Environments

Capstone Project

Myself and two other students are developing an indoor asset tracking system for use in hospital and care environements. The system uses BLE nodes for tracking and I am developing a web application to securly display tracking data.

Analyzing the Use of Concurrency in Dictionary Attacks

Concurrent Programming Final Project

For my final project in my concurrent programming course I decided to analyze how parallel programming can speed up dictionary attacks. The project compares the average execution time of cracking passwords using different thread counts for hash algorithms including MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512.

TripTailor

Software Development Final Project

For our software development project, myself and eight other students developed a Pinterest inspired travel planning web application. The app allows users to share activities they enjoyed from their vacation and recommends itineraies to users based on their interests.