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Robert Rutter

Incoming Data Engineer @ Meta (Facebook)
Recent UNF Graduate

General Info

  • SchoolUniversity of North Florida
  • LocationJacksonville, Florida, US
  • E-mailn01468463@unf.edu
  • Phone +1 (941) 549-4043

Professional Experience

  • September 2023

    Meta (Facebook)

    ML Research Assistant

    • Will join VR Platform Team (Reality Labs) on September 25, 2023

  • August 2022 - May 2023

    University of North Florida

    ML Research Assistant

    • Identified and developed cutting-edge Deep Learning applications for Discomfort Detection in Healthcare
    • Utilized existing Deep Learning Models and Medical Image & Sound Datasets to increase accuracy in Patient Discomfort detection

  • May 2022 - August 2022

    Facebook/Meta

    Data Engineer Intern

    • Contributed to Facebook Groups & Feed Channels products on Community Participation & Systems Data Engineering Team
    • Developed datasets to support and enable data analysis and dashboards consumed by cross-functional partners and leadership using Python and SQL
    • Iteratively built and designed analytics dashboards in collaboration with Data Scientists & Product Managers
    • Designed and implemented product metrics to support and measure company objectives and priorities
    • Identified an issue with an internal Dashboard Software causing inaccuracy to be displayed on hundreds of currently-in-use dashboards across all company products (Facebook, Instagram, etc.)
    • Wrote full-stack software solutions to solve the problem causing the inaccuracy and implement new features enabling increased dashboard customizability and accessibility (MySQL, Hack (PHP), React, HTML/CSS)

  • August 2021 - Present

    University of North Florida

    PASS Leader

    • Lead weekly review sessions for students taking UNF’s Programming 1 Course. Course material includes foundational programming concepts in the C language and general Computer Science topics (Time complexity, OOP, basic sorting/searching, etc.)

  • April 2021 - August 2021

    Facebook/Meta

    Data Challenge Finalist

    • Collaborated with other students on data engineering & data science projects, and received mentorship from Facebook Data Science & Data Engineer mentors
    • Cleansed and analyzed a Netflix Title Dataset to examine trends globally by country, user group, etc. using SQL and Python. Integrated IMDb API Results with the Netflix Dataset to incorporate user title ratings
    • Designed dashboards in PowerBI to visually examine trends and presented findings and final recommendations to Facebook mentors and peers
    • Furthered experience and knowledge in SQL, Tableau/Power BI, Data Visualization & Modeling, and Data Exploration & Analysis

  • May 2021 - August 2021

    iD Tech Camps

    Online Instructor

    • Taught and mentored students between 10 and 17 on topics in JavaScript, Java, Python, and more.

  • January 2021 - May 2021

    Regency Centers

    Technology Research Associate

    • Maintained company data infrastructure & performed basic database management tasks
    • Designed, optimized, and built data analytics reports for various company departments in collaboration with leadership
    • Automated existing hand-written reports across multiple company departments, greatly expediting periodical report generation and distribution
    • Built foundational skills in SQL, Data Analysis, Power BI, SQL Server & SSIS, Data Visualization & Modeling, and professional communication

Education

  • 2020 - May 2023

    B.S. in Information Science, Minor in Business Management

    University of North Florida

    May 2023 Graduation Date
    3.9 Institutional GPA

  • 2015 - 2018

    A.S. in Computer Programming and Analysis

    State College of Florida

Personal Projects

Doctor Patient Portal

Web app that allows hospital departments to create cases, assign doctors to new cases, and maintain records on all doctors, patients, and cases. The app uses permissions to ensure doctors can only manage their assigned cases. Written in PHP/SQL.

JavaScript Maze Generator

This program uses the P5.js library. Using an algorithm based on depth-first search, the program randomly generates a maze and uses backtracking to solve the completed maze.

Sieve of Eratosthenes App

JavaScript app that uses a recursive function to generate positive integers into an array. Uses the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm to detect and remove non-prime numbers from that array.

JavaScript Sorting App

JavaScript app that generates a set of random numbers, and sorts that set using a user specified algorithm. Uses Chart.js library to visualize data.

Skills

  • Python

    SQL

    Java

    C#

    PHP

    JavaScript

    HTML/CSS

  • SQL Server & SSIS

    Power BI, Tableau, Excel

  • Data Engineering, Analysis, and Visualization

    Sofware Engineering

    Data Structures & Algorithms

  • Always expanding!