Jadon Burgardt
Software Developer
Hey there! This is my portfolio where you can see some of my work, learn more about me, and find ways to connect with me.
Hey there! This is my portfolio where you can see some of my work, learn more about me, and find ways to connect with me.
I'm Jadon Burgardt, a third-year Software Engineering student at St. Cloud State University with a passion for building real, polished software. I work across the full stack, with particular strength in frontend development using JavaScript, React, HTML, and CSS, and backend experience with Node.js, Flask, MongoDB, and MySQL.
Beyond web development, I develop games in Unity and Unreal Engine 5, create 3D assets in Blender, and have shipped multiple deployed projects ranging from full-stack web apps to published games on itch.io. I have a growing interest in machine learning and data analytics, and I enjoy finding ways to turn raw data into something meaningful and actionable.
Most recently, I built a production-grade NBA player performance forecasting engine in Python. The system ingests live game data, engineers time-series features, and uses an XGBoost model to predict next-game output. It also implements dual anomaly detection using Z-score and Isolation Forest to flag statistically unusual performances, and exposes everything through a FastAPI REST API. The project includes an interactive Streamlit dashboard, a full automated test suite with pytest, and a CI/CD pipeline through GitHub Actions.
I am an active member of my university's Computer Science Club and Student Organization for Software Engineers, where I collaborate with students and faculty on real projects and events. I am currently seeking internship and co-op opportunities where I can contribute and keep growing.
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Built a real-time NBA player performance forecasting engine that ingests live game data, engineers time-series features, and trains an XGBoost model to predict next-game output.
An OpenAI API chatbot is an AI powered conversational app that uses OpenAI models to understand user input and generate natural language responses in real time.
Have you ever wanted to keep track of the movies you've watched, rate them, recommend them to others, and more? Well RateMyMovies is for you! RateMyMovies has a beautiful frontend, paired with a robust backend using the SupaBase API.
See daily fun facts from people around the world! Filter by Tech, Science, Finance, and more!
My largest game yet... "Project Vestige" has an advanced character controller, intricate physics system, detailed enemy AI, and so, so much more.
Along with a partner, we recreated the classic Slender original in the modern Unity 6 engine. This was originally created in only 2 Days for a Game Jam, with some polish being added afterwards. Much care and thought has gone into the environment, lighting, character mvovement, enemy AI, and more!
ProtoTag is a game where you must collect all of the coins on the map before being "tagged" by the spiders that are hunting you down!
This is a 8 game project pack of all the games I've created for my intro to game developement class! This pack includes a solar system simulation, bowling game, physics game, and more!
A landing page for my brothers car detailing business! This was a great excuse for me to try out the Claud Opus model in a real world scenario.
Secure Login, money transfers with currency conversion, live updates, and more!
Complete in a CoOp game where you must race the other player to 100 by rolling dice. Every turn you get, you have a temporary score, which you can add to as many times, as long as you do not roll a 1, if you do roll a 1, your temporary score gets erased. To avoid this, you can hold your temp score, which adds to your permanent, untouchable score. Be careful or be cautious, it's up to you!
A modern, highly reactive and optimized website for an AI business concept.
A fun game where you try to guess a random number 1-20. The faster you guess it, the higher score you get! Built in JavaScript.
Thump is a concept for an improved version of Pulse, which is an app where students can see their grades, schedules, notifications, and more. Pulse is less than perfect, and Thump seems to fix many of the issues that Pulse has. Currently a frontend only concept.
My first developer portfolio!
A clean, sleek design for a bookstore website. A clean frontend design using HTML, CSS, and JS, while using Flask for the backend.
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