Huntsville, AL

JacobNeel

Computer Scientist

Modeling + SimulationFull-stack SystemsApplied AIIndependent Software

Engineering for the physical world.

My work sits where software, sensors, simulation, and real operations meet. I care about systems that survive contact with reality.

Role
Analyst
Focus
Modeling + Simulation
Education
M.S. Computer Science, in progress
Clearance
Top Secret / SCI

Selected work

Products, experiments, and systems built across intelligence, mobile, and machine vision.

active

Habitrak

A simple and private habit tracking app. All data is stored locally: no accounts, no ads, no tracking.

Habit Tracking Swift / SwiftUI / iOS
active

Cosmotrak

Real-time satellite tracking app with 3D visualization, pass predictions, and visible pass alerts.

Satellite Tracking Swift / SwiftUI / CoreData / SceneKit / iOS

Experience

Analyst

KODA Technologies / SMDC Data Sciences

Directed-energy modeling, AFSIM workflows, local AI infrastructure, and analysis tooling.

Software Engineer

KODA Technologies

3D range visualization and hypersonic link-margin analysis.

B.S. Computer Science

University of Alabama in Huntsville

First place, 2025 UAH ACM Hackathon.

Full timeline
69.6 TFLOPS

A homelab built for real workloads.

GPU compute, telemetry, local AI, ADS-B collection, and enough hardware to keep the questions interesting.

Latest writing

How LLMs Actually Work

A ground-up walkthrough of what's really happening inside large language models, from tokenization to transformers to inference.

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