Data science & software engineering

Jaron M. Wilson

Founder of Jaron Dynamics and a Data Science major at Liberty University. I build end-to-end platforms and predictive models, then run them in production.

Lynchburg, VA · open to on-site, hybrid, or remote

About

I'm a Data Science major at Liberty University, minoring in Mathematics, after four years of dual-enrollment computer science and math coursework at Northern Virginia Community College. My focus is AI, full-stack development, and data analysis.

Most of what I build is end-to-end and actually deployed: a zero-knowledge finance app where the server never sees your money, a deterministic real-time multiplayer engine, a serverless donation portal handling live payments for a charity. Most of it runs on Cloudflare's platform, and most of it exists because I wanted the thing and it didn't.

I'd already been coordinating a team of student contractors on AI data work for over a year when I incorporated it as Jaron Dynamics LLC in March 2026, so the business could run through its own name instead of mine and I could bring on more people properly. The mission hasn't changed: paid, flexible work for students who need it, doing reinforcement fine-learning and human-in-the-loop training for AI models. I'm now extending that into government contracting alongside the AI work, with a smaller group from the team.

Alongside that I work retail operations at The Home Depot and spent three years refereeing competitive soccer. Different kinds of pressure, same instinct: notice what's broken and fix it properly.

Experience

Where I've worked and what I did there.

  1. 2024/25 – Present

    Founder & Principal Architect

    Jaron Dynamics LLC · remote · incorporated Mar 2026
    • Built and led a team of student contractors doing AI model alignment, reinforcement fine-learning and deployment (RFLD), and human-in-the-loop training for over a year before incorporating, giving students paid, flexible work.
    • Incorporated as an LLC (Virginia, March 31, 2026) to run the business under its own name and bring on more contractors properly.
    • Recruited and manage a distributed team of data specialists, holding 24/7 operational coverage through scheduling and resource allocation.
    • Established quality-assurance protocols that consistently hold top-tier quality ratings across major AI training platforms.
    • Architected a secure, centralized remote work environment to streamline operations and maximize team efficiency.
    • Currently expanding from AI data contracting into government contracting with a smaller group from the team, while continuing to grow the AI side.
  2. Aug – Dec 2025

    Data Analyst

    Save the Storks · remote
    • Developed automated Python ETL pipelines using complex regex pattern matching to parse, extract, and standardize public IRS Form 990 PDF/XML tax filings.
    • Reviewed and corrected nonprofit resource listings field by field (address, phone, services provided, hours), cross-referencing external databases such as GuideStar before publication.
    • Applied data validation techniques to clean incoming dataset inputs before database integration, and flagged duplicates and significant changes for team review.
  3. Mar 2025 – Present

    Specialty & Sales Associate

    The Home Depot · Haymarket, VA & Lynchburg, VA
    • Oversee cross-departmental floor activities, staff scheduling, and customer transactions in a fast-paced retail environment, at home in Haymarket and in Lynchburg during the school year.
    • Cross-trained to run every department a supervisor can cover: millwork, appliances, flooring, lot, paint, tool rental, and forklift operation.
    • Work the front end as cashier, backup cashier, service desk, and head cashier (trained), and reset the sales floor: penny items, pricing corrections, and shelf-label updates.
  4. Mar 2023 – Jan 2026

    Soccer Referee

    Tarey Houston Assigning Services
    • Arbitrated high-stakes competitive matches, making immediate rule-enforcement decisions while de-escalating disputes between coaches, players, and spectators.
  5. Apr 2024 – Apr 2025

    Retail Specialist, Front End / Control

    Harris Teeter · Haymarket, VA
    • Managed POS transactions, inventory operations, and customer inquiries across two store locations.
    • Worked front end and control alongside floral, deli/bakery, produce, and frozen foods.

Projects

Running in production. More at jaronwilson.dev →

  1. Live

    Trove: Encrypted personal finance platform

    • Built a zero-knowledge finance app in React/TypeScript and Cloudflare Workers (Hono), encrypting all balances and transactions client-side (AES-256-GCM) and storing them only in the user's own Google Drive. The server-side D1 database holds no financial data, only auth metadata.
    • Implemented passwordless sign-in with WebAuthn passkeys, deriving per-user encryption keys via HKDF from the passkey's PRF extension, and proxied the SimpleFIN bank-aggregation API through the Worker so bank credentials never touch the browser directly.
    • De-risked the encryption model before building it: shipped a standalone browser-feasibility spike testing WebAuthn PRF support and key-derivation stability across real browsers, catching insecure-context and feature-detection edge cases before they could reach production.
    • Engineered structural cash-flow classification (by account type, not category label) so relabeling a transaction can never miscount a transfer or credit-card payment as income, plus a CI/CD pipeline gating every deploy behind a full automated test suite.
  2. Live

    Ingenious Online: Deterministic real-time board game platform

    • Engineered a deterministic, action-driven multiplayer engine in vanilla JavaScript where game state and move replays are re-created from lightweight action vectors.
    • Implemented real-time synchronization and live player presence tracking with WebSockets via Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, and D1.
  3. Live

    Costa Rica Missions Trip: Non-profit donation platform

    • Developed and deployed a serverless payment portal on Cloudflare Workers and the Stripe API to process secure, direct-to-charity financial transactions.
    • Configured SSL/TLS edge termination and static asset caching, reducing external infrastructure costs to zero while maintaining PCI-compliant payment handling.
  4. Live

    ShiftSync AI: AI scheduling platform

    • Managers generate staff schedules with AI; employees manage their own shifts, trade with each other, and request time off.
  5. In progress

    6:8 Kids: Child sponsorship platform

    6:8 Ministries, Costa Rica · current site · rebuild preview
    • Rebuilding the sponsorship site end to end for a better user interface and easier usability: public child listings, a Spanish-language application form, a staff admin panel, and recurring PayPal giving, on Cloudflare Pages, D1, and R2, all aimed at making it simpler to sponsor a child.
    • Maintaining the ministry's current site while the rebuild is finished, ahead of publishing it to their main domain.
  6. Research

    VolleyballPredictions: Neural network predictive analytics

    • Designed and trained an artificial neural network in Python on historical multi-season CSV datasets to predict competitive volleyball match outcomes.
    • Conducted data cleaning, normalization, and feature engineering across player and team box-score statistics to beat baseline statistical models on predictive accuracy.

Education

  1. 2025 – 2029

    B.S. Data Science, Minor in Mathematics

    Liberty University · expected May 2029
    • Started as a Software Engineering major, then switched to Data Science this semester: tutoring other students showed me I wanted to be learning new material, not repeating what I already knew, so I picked the major I have the least experience in on purpose.
  2. 2021 – 2025

    Dual-enrollment coursework, Computer Science & Mathematics

    Northern Virginia Community College

Technical skills

Languages

  • Java
  • Python
  • C++
  • C#
  • JavaScript
  • SQL

Frameworks & tools

  • React
  • Node.js
  • Spring Boot
  • JUnit
  • Docker
  • Git
  • RESTful APIs
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Stripe API
  • Linux / Raspberry Pi

AI & machine learning

  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • OpenCV
  • Data pipelines

Service

Why the Costa Rica work keeps showing up above.

  1. Jul 2026

    Missions work in San José, Costa Rica

    6:8 Ministries
    • Returned for a month on my own to serve with the ministry, after building and self-funding the trip through the donation platform I wrote.
  2. Spring 2026

    Costa Rica missions trip

    Liberty University residence hall & 6:8 Ministries
    • Served with my hall for a week over spring break, partnering with 6:8 Ministries, which is how the sponsorship platform and the donation portal both started.

Awards & involvement

Awards

  • Battlefield High School CASIIT Academic Achievement Award
  • Honor Roll
  • Dean's List

Activities

  • Cybersecurity Club
  • Software Development Club
  • AI Club
  • High Performance Computing Club
  • Competitive Programming Club

Get in touch

Open to internships and data science, software engineering, and analytics roles (on-site around Lynchburg, VA, hybrid, or fully remote), plus freelance work for organizations doing good. Email [email protected], or reach me on LinkedIn.