Eric Zwierzynski

Software EngineerNew York, NY

I build full-stack tools with strong backend foundations — APIs, automation systems, and data-driven workflows that are reliable, testable, and easy to use.

Recently focused on authentication, FastAPI, Postgres, testing, and turning messy technical problems into reliable software.

Projects

  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Pytest

A pluggable authentication backend supporting JWT, session auth, OAuth, two-factor authentication, refresh token rotation, and role-based access control.

  • Designed a pluggable auth architecture using the Strategy pattern — JWT and session auth share one interface and swap via configuration, without touching route handlers.
  • Implemented refresh token rotation with reuse detection and token-family revocation.
  • Built TOTP two-factor authentication with QR enrollment and hashed backup codes.
  • Added Redis-backed account lockout before database access to reduce brute-force load.
  • JavaScript
  • CSS3
  • Python
  • GitHub Pages

A single-page web app that turns any letter input into real English words, then maps each letter to a publicly traded company — the same way FANG stands for Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google. Zero dependencies, no framework, no backend.

  • Built a bitmask matching engine that encodes each word as a 26-bit mask, scanning 8,700+ words in under 1 ms with a single AND-NOT operation per candidate.
  • Implemented smart company assignment so repeated letters get distinct companies, with per-letter swap buttons and shuffle for exploring alternatives.
  • Designed a frequency-ranked wordlist pre-sorted by Google Trillion Word Corpus data — array index doubles as recognizability score, eliminating a separate scoring model.
  • Shipped a polished finance-dashboard UI with staggered animations, S&P 500 filtering, shareable URLs, and clipboard export — all in ~110 KB of vanilla JS with no runtime dependencies.
  • React
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • Pytest
  • Docker

A full-stack dashboard for running portfolio optimization models and visualizing risk, allocation, and historical stock data.

  • Implemented Mean-Variance, Kelly, and Vol-Targeting optimization workflows.
  • Stored and queried historical stock price data in PostgreSQL.
  • Containerized the full app with Docker Compose for local orchestration.
  • Built React and Plotly views that make quantitative outputs readable.

Selected Experience

May 2025 – Sep 2025

Software Developer Intern

GeoComm · Remote

Backend systems for public safety GIS applications supporting emergency response workflows.

  • Developed custom Airflow DAGs to automate recurring workflows and reduce manual tasks.
  • Wrote 40+ Pytest unit tests, increasing coverage from 32% to 90%.
  • Added structured logging to improve incident triage and backend observability.
  • Refactored backend code for readability, performance, and maintainability.

Python · FastAPI · SQLAlchemy · SQL · Apache Airflow

Jan 2024 – May 2025

Software Engineering Program Participant

Google G-SWEP · New York, NY

Mentorship program — worked with a Google engineering mentor on algorithms, data structures, system design, and software engineering practices.

Python

Feb 2024 – May 2024

Software Developer Intern

Research Foundation of CUNY · New York, NY

Built an internship-finder web app and AI-assisted discovery tools for student career exploration.

  • Designed and built an internship-finder web app using React, Next.js, Node.js, and the OpenAI API.
  • Integrated intelligent search and recommendation features to help students discover relevant internships.
  • Collaborated on outreach projects explaining AI and cryptography to non-technical audiences.

JavaScript · React · Next.js · Node.js · OpenAI API

Jan 2025 – May 2025

Computer Science Teaching Assistant

CUNY, College of Staten Island · Staten Island, NY

Supported students in debugging, programming fundamentals, loops, data structures, and lab assignments.

Sep 2024 – May 2025

Mathematics & Computer Science Tutor

CUNY, College of Staten Island · Staten Island, NY

Tutored students in calculus, algebra, data structures, and programming across Python, Java, JavaScript, and C++.

Earlier

Project Manager Intern · JRM Construction Management

May 2024 – Aug 2024 · New York, NY

Coordinated construction project workflows, documentation, task progress, and team communication using Procore and Excel.