John Privitera

Email: johnpriv@live.com
Phone: 978-809-1136

Education

Northeastern University, May 2022
Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Audible [Amazon]: August 2022 to April 2024
Software Development Engineer I

Researched and implemented changes to author searches to increase result count and improve result relevancy
Led development for a cross team Java project to double the number of sort filters in the search results page, resolving a major source of customer complaints
Onboarded a new project to internal authentication services using TypeScript and AWS CDK code
Designed and released a safe search filter for third party podcasts using Java
Revised and launched multiple discontinued experiments from Audible's codebase

Desktop Metal: January 2021 to August 2021 (8 months)
Embedded Software Co-op

Numeric Investors: Janury 2020 to June 2020 (6 months)
Software Engineering Co-op/Intern

Thermofisher Scientific: January 2019 to August 2019 (8 months)
Software Engineering Co-op

: August 2024 to Present

Computer Vision team lead
Executed code on a Zedboard
Used OpenCV's HOG Descriptors to detect people in a camera frame
Coordinates of detected people are pushed to a queue and forwarded from the camera system to a remote base system

Implemented the DCT, quantization, dequantization, and IDCT steps of the JPEG algorithm on an FPGA

Vivado's HLS C was used for programming the FPGA
Python was used for supporting functions:
- Importing images
- Generating 8x8 pixel chunks for DCT and quantization
- Streaming the pixel chunks to and from the FPGA
- Recombining the output chunks into a compressed image

Implemented C++ code on an Arduino for an autonomous robot that avoids obstacles and detects light or alcohol
Developed an efficient search algorithm for robot movement using custom Matlab simulations