Jesse Racicot | Personal Website

About Me

I'm Jesse Racicot—a developer with a mathematics background who likes taking ideas from first sketch to working product.

What I build:

Quick wins: landing pages, front-end tweaks, small automations.
Deeper builds: full-stack business apps, data pipelines, dashboards.
Heavy lifting: algorithm design, graph problems, machine-learning features.

Whether you need something simple that "just works" or a model that crunches serious data, I can help.

Academic background:

B.Sc. Pure & Applied Mathematics
M.Sc. Computer Science (graph algorithms)
Ph.D. candidate in graph algorithms (currently part-time while I balance family and client work)

Research interests:

Online algorithms & competitive analysis, algorithmic graph theory, social-network analysis, and related areas.

Projects

Engineering Highlights

SpaceForIt – Peer-to-Peer International Delivery Platform

A full-stack platform connecting travelers with unused luggage capacity to people who need items moved across borders. Built with a focus on trust, transparency, and low overhead.

Identity & Trust Layer

Multi-step verification (email, phone SMS, government ID + selfie review) with profile completeness scoring.

Real-time Messaging

Encrypted in-app chat threads with optimistic UI updates and image attachments.

Node.js

PostgreSQL

React

Prisma

Status: Closed beta (web), Mobile launch Q3 2025

Fuzzy Entity-Matching Platform

A machine learning-powered system that transforms messy customer data into reliable, canonical records for a medical distributor's contract management platform.

Business Analysis

Mapped rebate-tracing and sales-report workflows, designed service-oriented solution.

ML Research

Developed CRF-based U.S. address parser for noisy inputs, evaluated matching techniques.

Implementation

Built end-to-end pipeline with parser integration and fuzzy-matching core.

Python

CRF

Machine Learning

Data-Driven Sales Toolkit

A suite of analytics features helping medical supply reps and customers make smarter purchasing decisions through data-driven insights.

Time-to-Reorder

Seasonality analysis with 10-day stock-out prediction, reducing back-orders.

Smart Recommendations

Peer-based SKU popularity analysis.

Discount Engine

Price-elasticity based tiered discounts balancing margin and volume.

NodeJS

Statistical Analysis

SQL

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Web Design Showcase

Landing Page For SpaceForIt

One-page marketing site for SpaceForIt—a peer-to-peer delivery platform that turns travellers' spare luggage space into a community shipping network.

HTML
Tailwind
Vercel

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Landing Page For Maple & Mango

A minimalistic landing page for a local Colombian clothing retailer.

HTML
Tailwind
Vercel

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Experience

Founder

SpaceForIt · Self-employed | Jan 2025 - Present

I started SpaceForIt to make it easier for people to send things internationally using extra luggage space from travelers already going that way. It's a community-based, peer-to-peer delivery app built around trust, verification, and mutual benefit — no platform fees, just smart connections.

Head of Algorithms

Finesse Contracts · Permanent Full-time | Jul 2022 - Apr 2025

As Head of Algorithms at Finesse Contracts, I led the design and development of a machine learning–based system that automatically priced contracts for customers by resolving ambiguous, manually entered user data into canonical customer profiles.

Developed a robust ML-powered matching engine that accurately aligned noisy or incomplete user inputs with structured customer data, significantly improving pricing accuracy and automation.
Designed and implemented a custom U.S.-address parser as a critical subcomponent of the pipeline, utilizing Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) for sequence modeling and entity extraction.
Packaged the solution into a production-ready API, ensuring smooth integration with broader systems.
Authored comprehensive developer documentation to ensure maintainability and scalability for developers moving forward.

Lead Software Developer

Descript Software | Jul 2017 - Mar 2019

As Lead Developer at Descript Contracts, I oversaw a team of 3–7 developers in building a full-featured contract management system for a major medical supplies distributor.

Designed and implemented core infrastructure to handle complex customer pricing agreements, GPO (Group Purchasing Organization) affiliations, and other nuanced business logic central to the healthcare supply chain.
Collaborated closely with business stakeholders to translate intricate contractual rules into a maintainable, scalable software solution.
Led the team through successful on-time delivery milestones, ensuring high product quality and stakeholder satisfaction.
Fostered a strong engineering culture by emphasizing clarity, code reviews, and iterative progress tracking.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science

Concordia University | 2021 - 2025

Competitive analysis of online graph algorithms.

Master of Science - MS, Computer Science

Concordia University | 2019 - 2021

Competitive analysis of online graph algorithms.

Publications

Racicot, J., & Rosso, G. (2022). Domination in Knödel Graphs. Discret. Math. Theor. Comput. Sci., 24(1). →
Harutyunyan, H., Pankratov, D., & Racicot, J. (2021). Online Domination: The Value of Getting to Know All Your Neighbors. 46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, MFCS 2021, 57:1--57:21. →

Bachelor's Degree, Pure and Applied Mathematics

Concordia University | 2014 - 2018

Graduated with a strong foundation in mathematics and its applications.

Get In Touch

Interested in collaborating on a project or need expert consultation? I'm always open to discussing new opportunities and ideas. Let's connect!