Stephen Leshko
ML & web app developer building AI-powered career tools
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Joined August 2024
Summary
Founder and builder focused on student career outcomes — Stephen co-founded OfferPilot to speed up and improve early-career job search outcomes, building product features (resume/cover-letter generation, large-scale job scraping, payment integration) and driving user growth. stephenleshko+2
Technical breadth across ML and full‑stack web development — his projects and roles span Tensorflow.js and pose-detection models, LLM/RAG systems, Next.js/React, cloud platforms (GCP, Azure), and API integrations for production web apps. stephenleshko+2
Student leadership and educator — he served in leadership for the Penn State Google Developer Student Club and taught a CMPSC course at Penn State, combining mentorship with hands-on teaching and workshop experience. pangea+2
Research and impact-oriented collaborator — contributed to AI-for-good and education-focused projects (Achievify, Nittany AI Challenge winners) that emphasize accessible career guidance and tutoring for underserved communities. researchgate+2
Work
Education
Projects
Writing
Turning Your Internship into a Full-Time Job Offer
July 1, 2024A detailed guide outlining strategies for interns to convert internships into full-time offers, covering proving value, networking, feedback, aligning goals, and timing.
Achievify's Learning-Centric and AI-powered Guide to Charting Career Paths
January 1, 2024Conference paper describing Achievify, a platform for AI-powered career guidance designed for underserved communities (paper lists the original development team including Stephen Leshko).