Jack Swindell

Jack Swindell is a senior at Oklahoma State University, currently majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Information Assurance with an expected graduation date of May 2024.

He first garnered interest in the technology industry from taking part in a free Harvard course (CS50), which is an introductory course to programming in both C and Python. Specifically, he has gained a particular interest in software development and cybersecurity. Since then, he has learned valuable skills from working on personal projects (found here), taking classes on the theoretical foundations of computing, participating in capture the flag events (such as PicoCTF, HackTheBox, and TryHackMe), and working through many other online challenges such as Leetcode and Codewars.

From this experience, he has learned languages such as:

  • Python*

  • Java*

  • C

  • C++

  • C#

  • Swift

  • Kotlin

  • Ruby

Other valuable skills include:

  • Operating systems (Kali, Ubuntu, Windows, Tails)

  • Networking (Instantiating Windows and Linux servers with their own private network)

  • Database systems and management (SQL and noSQL)