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Introduction to myself, goals, aspirations, dreams and future

Hello Everyone and thank you for reading my first blog! 

My name is John-Francis Caccamo and I from Sacramento, California. I am entering my final quarter of Oregon State University and I am excited to finish my time and studies with a flourish. Outside of school and programming, I mostly enjoy travel, good food, swimming, biking and hiking – I hope to go on a Latin America / Euro tour after I graduate and before I enter my first SWE job in fintech starting next summer. I hope to sample a myriad of cuisines and dishes in my extensive travels!

 

Me in Truckee (Lake Tahoe) California

Prior to my studies at Oregon State, I received a Bachelors in Genetics and Genomics and have done lab work. I realized that a perfect career scenario for me would be fuse my biological background with software / programming. Therefore, I enrolled in OSU’s post-bacc program to achieve this. A dream job would be to be a genetic population analyst / statistician or participate genome mapping or similar. While a Biological PhD or Masters was never in the cards for me, I feel that a comp sci degree could be a unlikely but perfect complement to my existing background.

Looking out over the sea in Long Beach, California

For the CS 467 Capstone Project, my team has decided to work on an AI/ML Bitcoin trading bot. This bot will be trained with historical data since 2012. I am excited to really do a deep-dive into Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. The idea of really fleshing out such hot CS topics and applying it in such a practical manner will really encourage me to learn, create and ultimately finish my OSU post-bacc with aplomb.