Jose Silva

Jose Silva

“Gordo” · Software Engineer

I like building systems that show their work — a course planner that derives every recommendation from a constraint solver instead of guessing, a crawler that catches real change by hashing pages rather than trusting a timestamp.

I'm studying computer science at the University of Michigan, and right now I'm a software development intern at Leidos, working on the frontend of enterprise applications and supporting AI-assisted workflows.

Open to 2026 & 2027 internships Severna Park, MD
gordovsilva@gmail.com LinkedIn GitHub semestra.ai

Where I'm studying

Aug 2024 — May 2028 Ann Arbor, MI

University of Michigan

B.S.E. Computer Science · Michigan LEAD Scholar

  • Coursework in data structures and algorithms, computer security, computer organization, software engineering, data-oriented programming, and web accessibility.
  • Mathematics through linear algebra, multivariable calculus, and honors statistics and data analysis.

Where I've worked

May 2026 — Present Bethesda, MD

Leidos

Software Development Intern

  • Enhance enterprise Angular and TypeScript applications serving 10,000+ monthly users, shipping requested features and resolving production issues in existing components.
  • Build frontend functionality and integrate backend services for an AI-powered assistant inside a flagship enterprise application, delivering intelligent user workflows.
  • Develop Spring Boot REST APIs against datastores managing billions of records, on AWS (EC2, S3, IAM), collaborating across teams in an Agile environment.
Angular TypeScript Spring Boot Java AWS
Jan 2026 — May 2026 Stuart, FL · Remote

Round 2 Ai

Software Development Intern

  • Engineered 100+ PostgreSQL views denormalizing relational customer, vendor, invoice, and financial data into shapes the frontend could query for analytics and reporting.
  • Built a real-time analytics dashboard in React and TypeScript with 12+ interactive visualizations surfacing key business metrics.
  • Optimized SQL queries and worked directly with engineers and beta clients — running demos and translating feedback into production-ready MVP features.
PostgreSQL React TypeScript SQL
Sep 2023 — Jul 2024 Fort Meade, MD

National Security Agency

Technology Intern

  • Supported senior executive staff in a TS/SCI environment — coordinating schedules, securing conference space, and organizing directorate-wide town halls.
  • Built an internal workflow that streamlined email management, improving communication efficiency by over 25%.
  • Completed a Full Scope Polygraph investigation during tenure.

Things I've built

Co-founder Live · semestra.ai

Semestra.ai

AI course advising, without the hallucinations

30+Colleges live
29,000+Courses indexed
4Catalog vendors
  • Built a vendor-adapter ingestion layer that normalizes catalogs from CourseLeaf, Acalog, Kuali, and Banner into a single validated schema, cross-checking extractions against live schedule feeds to flag conflicts rather than guess.
  • Modeled degree requirements and prerequisite logic as a constraint satisfaction problem solved with OR-Tools CP-SAT — every multi-semester plan ships with a derivation for each recommendation, which eliminates hallucinated course suggestions outright.
TypeScript Next.js React OR-Tools (CP-SAT) PostgreSQL Supabase Vercel
Personal Python

Research & Publication Aggregator

Change detection across ~200 research sites

  • A configurable monitoring system that scrapes nearly 200 university research sites and Google Scholar profiles, detecting new publications via SHA-256 page hashing with JSON-persisted snapshots and duplicate detection.
  • Request throttling and structured logging keep multi-site crawling stable at scale.
  • An aggregation pipeline extracts page content, generates summaries with the Claude API, and consolidates new research into HTML and plaintext email digests.
Python Claude API BeautifulSoup Requests SMTP

What I work with

Languages
C++ · Java · Python · TypeScript · JavaScript · SQL · C · Bash
Frameworks
React · Next.js · Node.js · Angular · Spring Boot · OR-Tools (CP-SAT) · Tailwind CSS
Tools
Git · AWS · Docker · PostgreSQL · Supabase · Vercel · Claude Code & API · Linux · Replicate