A full-stack logbook and social app for student pilots. Log multi-leg flights, track progress toward FAA private pilot requirements, map routes automatically with ADS-B data, and share flights with friends. Built on a PostgreSQL schema that enforces logbook rules, 16,000+ U.S. airports in PostGIS, and a typed Fastify REST API.
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Jackson
Mock
Computer science graduate student at NC State. Building full-stack apps that combine functionality with great user experiences.
Projects
An interactive 3D web app that animates 22,000+ flights over 23 years as arcs from origin to destination. Flight logs are parsed for ICAO airport codes into monthly JSON datasets of coordinates, and the interface is fully responsive on mobile and desktop.
View README ↗A custom PHP theme with Tailwind CSS replacing SkySouth's legacy site, owning architecture, UI/UX and responsive implementation. An SEO-focused rebuild with structured data and a 301 redirect map grew active users by 652% and organic search sessions by 1,097% year over year.
Visit Site ↗A Python image-processing pipeline that automatically validates millions of exams, saving over 100,000 hours of manual labor annually. It extracts data from scanned pages with EasyOCR and OpenCV, resumes long batch runs from JSON checkpoints, and cut false positives 25x through iterative interpretation logic.
Experience
Web Developer
SkySouth
- Built a custom PHP theme with Tailwind CSS to replace SkySouth's legacy site, owning architecture, UI/UX and responsive implementation.
- Increased active users by 652% and organic search sessions by 1,097% year over year with SEO-focused site architecture, metadata and content targeting high-intent searches.
- Implemented page-specific Schema.org JSON-LD structured data and a 301 redirect map to preserve search rankings through the migration.
Software Engineer Intern
Pearson
- Saved over 100,000 hours of manual labor annually with a Python image-processing pipeline that automatically validates millions of exams.
- Extracted exam data from scanned pages with EasyOCR and OpenCV, and added crash recovery that resumes long batch runs from saved JSON checkpoints.
- Reduced false positives 25x through iterative refinement of the interpretation logic, plus multithreading, SMTP status reports and configurable thresholds.
Research Assistant
Wolfpack Innovations Software Engineering Research
- Developed web scraping applications to extract data and test files from hundreds of web pages.
- Automated differential testing across 25+ C compiler and optimization-level configurations to detect miscompilations where identical source code produced inconsistent output.
- Wrote reproducible bug reports with minimal test cases and exact compiler flags, enabling developers to isolate the root cause.
Education
M.S. in Computer Science
North Carolina State University
- Accelerated Bachelor's/Master's Program
- GPA: 3.8/4.0
B.S. in Computer Science
North Carolina State University
- Minor in Business Administration
- GPA: 3.8/4.0
- Coursework: Applied Web-Based Client-Server Computing, Foundations of Cryptography, Cloud Architecture, Concepts and Facilities of Operating Systems, Automated Learning and Data Analysis, C and Software Tools, Human Computer Interaction
Contact
Check out my projects and experience or send me an email.