Jeremy Friesen
fourth-year Computer Science student at Carleton University, building secure, data-driven software.Currently focused on Security, Cloud & DevOps, AI/ML, Data Science
- 7×hackathon winner
- 11hackathons
- 5internships
About
Security-minded builder, data-driven by habit.
I build secure, data-driven software, from cloud infrastructure and DevSecOps to AI/ML.
I'm a fourth-year Computer Science student at Carleton University, a Cyber Security Intern with the Government of Canada, and President of the Carleton AI Society.
- Committed to continuous learning & improvement
- Passionate about and experienced in data science & analysis, software development, cloud & IT infrastructure, DevSecOps, and AI/ML
- Happiest when building with a team, on campus or at a hackathon
Interests
- DevOps
- IoT
- Machine Learning / AI
- Productivity
- Social Good
- Web
Experience
Internships across the public sector.
Security, cloud, IT and data science roles with the Government of Canada, the RCMP and the National Research Council.
- May 2026 - Present
Cyber Security Intern
Government of Canada
Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Distil protocol specifications, cryptographic standards and mathematical papers into implementation-ready solutions.
- Develop and maintain encryption and decryption capabilities supporting cyber defence requirements.
- May 2025 - Aug 2025
IT Analyst Intern
Government of Canada
Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Automated Azure administration with PowerShell, DevOps and Agile practices, standardizing the team's CI/CD workflows.
- Jan 2025 - Apr 2025
Cloud Analyst Intern
Government of Canada
Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Designed scalable cloud architecture and IT infrastructure in Azure for secure internal remote network access.
- Sep 2024 - Dec 2024
IT Analyst Intern
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Delivered first-level support for 200+ enterprise and law-enforcement applications, diagnosing incidents and outages quickly.
- May 2024 - Aug 2024
Data Scientist Intern
National Research Council of Canada
Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Automated bivariate and multivariate analysis workflows for the AI for Logistics program's road-freight project.
- Analysed 200+ sensor and geospatial datasets with Matplotlib, GeoPandas and Folium, producing 300+ pages of reports.
Community
Clubs, teams and the people behind them.
Leadership and volunteer work across Carleton's tech community: running a society, leading a drone software team, and building the tools behind a hackathon.
Carleton AI Society
Carleton's AI and machine learning club, 100+ members
- PresidentMay 2026 - Present
- DeveloperJun 2025 - Sep 2025
- Lead the society and design technical workshops that turn research-level ML material into hands-on sessions.
- Ran the Intro to Machine Learning workshop at Hack the Hill III (Sept. 2026).
- Run club operations: the annual budget, administrative filings and CUSA ratification.
- Built the documentation site (its top contributor) and much of the club website.
Blackbird UAV
Carleton's UAV engineering and design team
- Software LeadJul 2025 - Aug 2026
- Led the software sub-team building autonomous flight control and payload systems in Python and C++ on Raspberry Pi and Arduino for the AEAC competition.
- Built the team's public website in React and Next.js to market its goals and mission.
cuHacking
Carleton University's official hackathon
- JudgeJul 2026
- Software DeveloperAug 2024 - Dec 2024
- Contributed to the website, portal and documentation site, introducing Agile, Extreme Programming and trunk-based development.
- Wrote an open-source Playwright tool that automates event forms, saving the logistics team 10+ hours.
- Returned as a judge for cuHacking 2026.
Carleton Computer Science Society
The student society for Carleton's CS program
- DeveloperSummer 2025
- Resources Committee VolunteerJun 2024 - May 2025
- Wrote FAQs and articles for the student resources site.
- Worked with the dev team on the society's GitHub organization and handbook.
Projects
Selected work, newest first.
Hackathon builds, club platforms, research code and open-source tools. The flagship projects open a case study; the rest link to Devpost, a demo video, the live site or the source.
AI-assisted security investigation. Unsupervised anomaly detection that found a hidden 22-event attack in 180,800 unlabelled Apache log lines and grouped related events into incidents for analysts.
1st place, CSE challenge at Hack the North 2026
The club's website and documentation hub, which I now run as President.
Autonomous flight control, gimbal control and payload systems for Blackbird UAV's competition drone: Python and C++ on Raspberry Pi and Arduino, linked over Tailscale.
Blackbird UAV, Software Lead
Cryptographic provenance for Canadian defence supply chains: signed supplier attestations hash-linked across tiers, with a verifier that scored 98.3% on a 1,000-chain corpus.
Ottawa Defence Hackathon
Auto-tuned U-Net, DeepLabV3+ and FPN models with ResNet and EfficientNet encoders on aerial imagery of BC communities, joined to ParcelMap BC parcels for West Kelowna, Logan Lake and Cumberland.
Your real estate agent's agent: text a number, take a short AI phone call about what you want, and get matched listings back by SMS.
GenAI Genesis 2026
A gamified, pixel-art smart plant monitor: Raspberry Pi sensors, an AI chat assistant and a museum you unlock by keeping plants alive.
Best Designed Hack, uOttaHack 8
Five AI personas stress-test a startup idea and remember earlier validations.
AGI Ventures Canada challenge
Describe a hardware idea in plain English and get a parts list, firmware and an assembly guide, grounded in real components.
MLH Best Use of Gemini API, ConUHacks X
Drone detection and classification from audio signatures, built with Blackbird UAV.
Shazam for Drones Hackathon
Public site for Carleton's UAV design team. One of its two main contributors, with 160+ commits.
Upload a capture and explore the traffic: Arkime and DuckDB under the hood, with Cohere summarising what looks suspicious.
CSE prize, Hack the North 2025
Find the shortest route through Carleton's underground tunnel system with an interactive graph of the campus.
Wolfram Award and People's Choice, cuHacking 6
Website, portal and docs for Carleton's official hackathon, in an Nx monorepo.
Playwright workflows that file cuHacking's event risk-management forms, saving the logistics team 10+ hours.
A multi-threaded ghost hunt in C: hunters and a ghost run as pthreads sharing rooms and evidence, with Valgrind-clean memory management.
Hackathons
Built in 24 to 36 hours.
Hack the North, ConUHacks, uOttaHack, cuHacking, AGI Ventures Canada and more. Devpost has the full record.
- 7winning submissions
- 11hackathons entered
- 8Devpost projects
Hack the North 2026
WinnerTrace
Unsupervised log anomaly detection that surfaced a hidden 22-event attack in 180,800 Apache log lines.
1st place · CSE: Log & Order
- Python
- PyTorch
- scikit-learn
- PyOD
- Flask
ConUHacks X
WinnerBuildo
Describe a hardware idea in plain English and get a parts list, firmware and assembly guide.
MLH · Best Use of Gemini API
- Next.js
- React
- Flask
- Gemini API
- Snowflake Cortex
uOttaHack 8
WinnerPlante
A gamified, pixel-art smart plant monitor with Raspberry Pi sensors and an AI chat assistant.
Best Designed Hack
- Next.js
- MongoDB
- Gemini
- Raspberry Pi
- Arduino
Hack the North 2025
WinnerNetwork Threat Explorer
Insightful network traffic visualization and analysis.
CSE: Network Traffic Exploration
- Python
- Flask
- DuckDB
- Cohere
- Arkime
AGI Ventures Canada · Hackathon 3.0: Build to Convert
WinnerProdly
An AI productivity platform with a Pomodoro timer, planner and assistant, judged the cleanest interface of the event.
Best UI
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- AI
SourceSep 2025cuHacking 6
WinnercuTunnel
Shortest routes through Carleton's underground tunnel system, powered by Dijkstra's algorithm.
Wolfram Award (Top 5) · People's Choice
- JavaScript
- Cytoscape.js
- HTML
- CSS
InnovateNow! 2
WinnerTelehealth for remote regions
A free telemedicine concept for communities without nearby care: symptom surveys, live chat and video consults.
3rd place
- JavaScript
- Node.js
- HTML
- CSS
SourceOct 2023Ottawa Defence Hackathon · Verified Canadian Supply Chains
MapleVault
Signed attestation chains for Canadian defence procurement.
- TypeScript
- FastAPI
- Docker
GenAI Genesis 2026
Agent²
Your real estate agent's agent: text a number, take a short AI call, get matched listings by SMS.
- Python
- FastAPI
- AWS
- PersonaPlex
- Playwright
AGI Ventures Canada · Hacker House Challenge
Startup Idea Validator
Five AI personas (VC, engineer, ethicist, user, analyst) stress-test a startup idea with persistent memory.
- FastAPI
- Backboard.io
- JavaScript
- Python
SourceJan 2026Shazam for Drones Hackathon
Shazam 4 Drones
A drone classification and detection platform built with Blackbird UAV.
- Next.js
- FastAPI
- scikit-learn
- SciPy
- Twilio
Judging
On the panel, not the podium.
Skills
Tools I reach for.
Languages, frameworks and platforms from my resume and recent projects, grouped by where they fit in the stack.