About me
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
I am currently completing my second work term with Avalon Holographics. Avalon is developing 3D holographic displays. During my time with the company I have been contributing to the development of simulators and video games for the displays as well as researching and implementing controller methods for the displays.
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 collaborated with researchers from UCalgary to help develop a flight optimization application, I supervised two software development interns and I led the development of four web applications realted to flight safety, flight planning and cost tracking.
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 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
Omascan
Student Project
I am currently assisting other students in the development of an application that allows Occupational Therapist to conduct home safety assessments and plan necessary modifications. The project aims to address the long wait times for home assessments and allow more seniors to 'age in place' for longer.
Indoor Asset Tracking for Hospital Environments
Capstone Project
Myself and other students are developing an indoor asset tracking system for use in hospital and care environements. We researched existing indoor asset tracking solutions and decided to use BLE tags for our system. I am also developing a web application to allow workers to visualize the tracking data, and investigating privacy and security challenges for deploying in healthcare environments.
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. I used C++ to write the password cracking algorithm and used the famous RockYou.txt file for password generation. I used Python to benchmark and graph the average execution times and speed up.
Packet Based Data Transfer System
VLSI Course Project
I investigated asynchronous data transfer and cross-domain synchronization techniques in order to design and implement a 32-byte packet transfer system in VHDL. The design focused on metastability preventation and I conducted simulations to test it's performance under various packet transmission scenarios.
TripTailor
Software Development Final Project
For our software development project, myself and 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. We used Go and React to develop the application and we used Docker for containerization.
Other
MUN Computer Engineering Information Video
I was lucky enough to be featured on MUN's information video for Computer Engineering! Click above to see it.