Hey, I'm Jackson Ballow

Full Stack Developer & MLE

Co-Founder & COO at Desync AI | MS in CS from Purdue, BS in CS from Notre Dame

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About Me

Currently Co-Founder & COO at Desync AI, where we use AI to extract and structure web data.

With 5+ years coding experience, I've built 20+ websites, Chrome extensions, and Google Sheets add-ons. I specialize in scraping web data, structuring it, and delivering it in easy to use ways, especially via MCP servers that plug directly into AI agents and chat interfaces.

Experience
Desync AI
Co‑Founder & COOJun 2024 – Present
IDEA Center
Coding Team LeadMay 2024 – Jul 2025
Ernst & Young (EY)
Tech Consultant InternSummer 2023
Polaris Career Consulting
Founder & CEOFeb 2023 – Aug 2024
Education
Purdue University
MS in Computer ScienceAug 2024 – Dec 2025
University of Notre Dame
BS in Computer ScienceAug 2020 – May 2024

5+

Years Coding

20+

Websites Built

30+

Projects Completed

Featured Projects

My Best Work

Desync AI

AI-powered web scraping API and Excel assistant for structured data extraction

Competitor product analysis

Find YC companies hiring engineers

Python JavaScript (React, Node) PostgreSQL NoSQL Docker AWS AI/ML

5M+

Pages Scraped

50,000

Concurrent Searches

50+

Users

Visit Live Site Try Beta Version

Other Projects

DM² Lab Data Augmentation

Graph Data Augmentation

NSF-funded research on graph data augmentation methods for improved ML performance.

Python PyTorch Graph ML Research
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Desync.ai Tools

Desync.ai Tools

Open-source Python library for web scraping, data extraction, and automated data cleaning.

Python PyPI Web Scraping
View Code PyPI
Polaris Career Consulting

Polaris Career Consulting

Full-stack platform connecting students with startup projects, generating $40k in committed revenue.

React Node.js MongoDB
Flask App React App
Sound Classification

Sound Classification

Deep learning model using CNNs and RNNs to classify environmental sounds with 98%+ accuracy.

Python PyTorch Audio ML
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Technical Skills

Languages

JavaScript JavaScript
C C
C++ C++
Python Python
HTML HTML
CSS CSS

Frontend

React React
TypeScript TypeScript
Next.js Next.js
Tailwind CSS
Bootstrap Bootstrap

Backend

Node.js Node.js
Express Express
FastAPI FastAPI
Django Django
Flask Flask

Database & Cloud

Arch Linux Arch Linux
PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
MongoDB MongoDB
AWS AWS
Docker Docker
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
Linux Linux
Koyeb Koyeb
MySQL MySQL

AI & Tools

TensorFlow TensorFlow
PyTorch PyTorch
Cerebras Cerebras
Groq Groq
Lambda Labs
Git Git
MCP MCP
Hugging Face Hugging Face

Interests & Hobbies

Basketball

Playing pickup games at the gym

Notre Dame Logo

ND Football

Go Irish! Following ND every season

Saints Logo

NO Saints

Who Dat! Cheering for the Saints on Sunday

Fishing

Relaxing by the water and catching fish

Golf

Hitting the range and playing local courses

Backpacking

Trails and backcountry camping

Rock Climbing

Bouldering and top rope

Boxing

Training for fitness and learning self-defense

Scuba Diving

Exploring underwater worlds and marine life

Archery

Practicing precision and focus at the range

Get In Touch

I'm always happy to chat about technology :)

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