University of California, Irvine (UCI)
M.C.S. Master of Computer Science · 3.87/4.00 (Cumulative)
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B.S. Computer Science · 3.78/4.00 (Cumulative) · 3.86/4.00 (Major)
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Projects
ArdentChat
A real-time messaging application for one-on-one communication between 50 students and staff members
- Implemented the front-end with React.js so users can send text messages and receive media files such as GIF and PDF
- Communicated with the Atlas MongoDB service from an Express.js back end to store and manage user data
- Utilized Socket.IO to establish full-duplex instant connection between two parties of the of the communication
Fabflix
A Java EE web application with high scalability allowing customers to search and purchase over 20,000 movies under 500ms
- Synchronized the data between leader and follower MySQL databases by creating two load balancers to distribute the network traffic, trimming the response time from over 400ms to 100-200ms
- Integrated fuzzy search backed by the edit distance algorithm into the application while keeping the response time around 80ms
- Optimized data processing time from 25 minutes to 3 minutes for parsing over 70,000 entries using batch insert and a hash table
AntCatalog
A website enabling students in the University of California, Irvine to gain analytic insights on graduate courses starting from Summer 2013 to Fall 2022
- Applied the compression middleware to reduce the size of the largest payload from 5mb to 411kb
- Performed stress testing with Locust to ensure the correctness of data as well as well as the API service
- Programmed the rate limiting mechanism to allow maximum of 5 requests per second from the same source
- Configured the caching mechanism on the server to return the response under 100ms given the same request had been issued
ICS Search Engine
A search engine written in Python that was able to handle thousands of webpages under a subset of the UCI ICS domain with the query response time below 300ms
- Ranked the relevance among seven thousand pages in low response time by coding custom cosine similarity algorithm with tf-idf weighting
- Parsed the text within webpages to store them into an inverted index distributed among various small index files
- Constructed the search engine with 3 students in 4 weeks
Education
Skills
Amazon EC2
Angular
Azure DevOps
Bash
C
C++
Common Lisp
CSS
Docker
Express.js
Git
GitHub Actions
Go
Google Compute Engine
HTML
Java
JavaScript
Jest
Jira
JUnit
Kubernetes
Linux/Unix
Microsoft Azure
MongoDB
MySQL
Node.js
PostgreSQL
Python
React.js
SQL
SQLite
TypeScript
Chinese (Cantonese & Mandarin)
Experience
Motorola Solutions
Software Engineer · Full-Time
- Present
Paylocity
Software Engineer · Internship
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- Contributed to the initial development of a data access feature through expanding business logic on the ASP.NET Core API and React.js client application, enabling nearly 3,000 users without write permissions to retrieve their files
- Partnered with another engineer to revise event emitter mechanisms in an internal module to support telemetry for the mobile app using Ionic Framework, leading to 80% reduction in time for reporting and investigating the cause of software errors
- Recorded user activities on the React.js website with 100,000+ weekly users through configuring 20+ custom triggers on Google Tag Manager to form new insights on continuous UI/UX improvement
Numecent
Software Engineer · Internship
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- Containerized the customer tracking portal by loading, building, and configuring several Docker images, streamlining the deployment process and reducing configuration issues for the DevOps team
- Replaced a legacy C++ product key generator with a new PowerShell script for the customer tracking service, shortening the feature delivery lifecycle by 60%
- Enhanced the customer tracking portal leveraging the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, AngularJS, and Node.js) with new features and improvements, enabling its users to operate the application seamlessly
University of California, Irvine (UCI)
Student Lab Tutor · Volunteer
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- Engaged with 100+ students on their class assignments through debugging and explaining the control flow of their programs
- Clarified students' confusion on difficult concepts under 5 minutes on average
- Reported to the faculty advisors about events during tutoring sessions and provided students' feedback on the course in weekly meetings
Reader · Seasonal
Fall 2020 ( - )
- Created reusable test cases to grade weekly assignments from 200+ students in a week
- Assisted the instructor on the method of evaluation for the final assignment using the Swing framework
Project Committee Developer · Volunteer
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- Collaborated with 10+ developers on PeterPortal enabling students to view information for 5000+ classes and their grade distribution since Fall 2014
- Reported current status for the assigned team to the head of the project committee during weekly meetings
- Organized 3 learning activities enabling students to gain experience on common development tools such as Git
Ardent Academy for Gifted Youth
Software Engineer · Internship
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- Produced a prototype for an internal application with the MERN stack to facilitate individual conversations between students and instructors
- Renovated the front-end of Ardent Labs' website with React.js, trimming the loading time from 6s to 500ms
- Developed a whiteboard application with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to reduce the amount of waste paper and meet company-wide environmental agenda
