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College Essay Coach & Software Engineer: Writing, CS, AI
Joseph H.

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I help students tell their story clearly and build real technical skills! My name is Joey, and I’m a software engineer with a degree in Computer Science and International Relations from Drew University (magna cum laude, 2024) and a former university writing-center tutor. I’m especially helpful for students applying to STEM, engineering, and AI programs who need to an impressive technical project. I'm also apt to provide top-of-the-line writing tutoring for critical academic essays. I am...

I help students tell their story clearly and build real technical skills! My name is Joey, and I’m a software engineer with a degree in Computer Science and International Relations from Drew University (magna cum laude, 2024) and a former university writing-center tutor. I’m especially helpful for students applying to STEM, engineering, and AI programs who need to an impressive technical project. I'm also apt to provide top-of-the-line writing tutoring for critical academic essays. I am excited to work with children and adults of all ages!

For three and a half years, I tutored more than 100 students one-on-one at the Goucher College and Drew University writing centers, helping them brainstorm, structure, revise, and cite their work. I also wrote briefs for Congressional offices during a policy internship. For college essays, we find the story only you can tell and shape it through focused revision. I coach and give detailed feedback, but you write every word. I never write essays for students or promise admissions outcomes.

I was a frontend engineering intern at Cloudflare and have worked as a founding frontend and design engineer at an AI startup, building web applications with React, Next.js, and JavaScript. I also did undergraduate machine learning research in Python. I tutor intro computer science, Python, and machine learning for high school students, college students, and adults. I teach how engineers actually think: breaking problems down, reading error messages, and debugging methodically. For exams, we practice without AI tools so you can solve problems on your own.

I tutor online and in-person on Capitol Hill. Message me with your goal, your deadline, and where you’re starting from, and I’ll tell you honestly how I can help!

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Drew University
CS and Int. Relations

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Computer Science

Computer Science

I earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Drew University, graduating magna cum laude, and I now work as a software engineer. My coursework covered programming fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, and machine learning, and I did undergraduate research applying machine learning to language data. Professionally, I have built production software at Cloudflare and at an AI startup. Before that, I spent three and a half years tutoring at university writing centers, which taught me how to break hard ideas into steps a student can actually follow.
Essay Writing

Essay Writing

I spent three and a half years as a writing tutor at the Goucher College and Drew University writing centers, where I met one-on-one with more than 100 students on essays for courses across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. I graduated magna cum laude from Drew with a double major in Computer Science and International Relations, which meant writing a steady stream of research papers and argumentative essays myself. During a policy internship, I also wrote briefs for Congressional offices, where every argument had to be clear, well supported, and short enough for a busy reader.
Machine Learning/ AI

Machine Learning/ AI

As an undergraduate at Drew University, where I earned a B.S. in Computer Science, I conducted machine learning and natural language processing research in Python using scikit-learn, building and evaluating models that worked with text data. I am a software engineer and have worked as a founding frontend and design engineer at an AI startup, where I built the interfaces people use to work with AI products. I also studied International Relations and interned in policy, so I am comfortable discussing what AI can and cannot do, not just how to code it. I teach applied machine learning with an emphasis on intuition and hands-on practice rather than advanced mathematics. We cover how supervised and unsupervised learning work, how to prepare data, why we split data into training and test sets, how to recognize overfitting, and how to choose the right evaluation metric for the problem. Students implement models such as linear and logistic regression, decision trees, and k-means clustering in Python, and we work with text data using techniques like tokenization and TF-IDF. I also explain how large language models work at a conceptual level, including their common failure modes and limitations. I work with high school students who want to build an AI project of their own, college students in introductory machine learning or data science courses, and professionals, including people in policy roles, who want a practical understanding of how AI systems work. My goal is for every student to finish with a working project or a clear mental model they can build on.
Proofreading

Proofreading

During a policy internship, I wrote and edited briefs for Congressional offices, where a single typo or unclear sentence could undermine an otherwise strong argument. That experience taught me to read for precision: grammar, punctuation, word choice, consistency, and whether each sentence says exactly what the writer means. I also spent three and a half years as a writing tutor at the Goucher College and Drew University writing centers, working with more than 100 students, and I graduated magna cum laude from Drew University. How I work depends on who you are. For adults and professionals, I proofread documents such as cover letters, resumes, reports, grant materials, and professional emails. We review the changes together, and I explain any edit that affects meaning or tone so the final version still sounds like you. For students, I do not proofread graded work or application essays on their behalf. Instead, I teach the self-editing process I used at the writing center. Students learn to read their work aloud, find the errors they make most often, check citations and formatting, and correct their own drafts with confidence. I pay close attention to consistency in style, including capitalization, number formatting, headings, and citation style, because these details are often what make a document look professional. My goal is for every client to leave with a cleaner document and, for students especially, the ability to catch these mistakes on their own next time.
React

React

I use React professionally. I was a frontend engineering intern at Cloudflare, where I built features with React and Next.js, and I have worked as a founding frontend and design engineer at an AI startup, where I designed and built production web applications in React from the first component to deployment. I hold a B.S. in Computer Science from Drew University, and I spent three and a half years as a university writing-center tutor, so I am used to explaining technical ideas clearly and patiently. I teach React the way engineers actually use it. We start with the core idea that a user interface is a function of state, and then work through components, props, state, hooks, effects, forms, routing, and fetching data from an API. Instead of following a tutorial line by line, students build a small project of their own choosing so every concept is tied to something they want to make. I review code the way a senior teammate would, explaining why a pattern works rather than just fixing it, and I teach practical debugging with the browser console and React Developer Tools. I work with high school students building a first portfolio project, college students in web development courses, and adults adding React to their skills. Many students now use AI tools to write React code, so I also teach them to read, question, and fix that code instead of copying it. By the end of our work together, my goal is for each student to understand their own code well enough to explain it, extend it, and ship it.
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