About Me

I am an undergraduate (2017-2021) Computer Science/Mathematics major student at Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
I am experienced in Web/Mobile Development, Cloud Architecture and Algorithms Optimization.

• Software Development Research Internship

  Google

  May 2019 - August 2019

  • Developed an experimental version of Blockly, a pure-JS library that represents code as interlocking blocks, which is widely used in all "Code with Google" programs.
  • Worked closely with the Blockly team at Google in a program hosted by Professor Lauren Milne @ Macalester College to integrate accessibility features into the existing JavaScript code that generates the UI, making Blockly compatible with screen readers.
  • Implemented and tested rendering optimization and code simplification.
  • Published the resulting paper "Making the Blockly Library Accessible via Touchscreen" on Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2019.

• Founder and Organizer of Google Cloud Training Program @ Macalester

  June 2020 - August 2020 (ongoing)

  • Designed and hosted an extracurricular summer program tailored to address the lack of practical experience of Computer Science majors at liberal arts colleges.
  • Guided dozens of students through two months of hands-on experiential learning and guided the build and deployment of applications using Google Cloud.

• Teaching Assistant for Algorithms Design and Analysis

  Macalester College

  September 2018 - May 2019

  • Helping professors design lectures and homework.
  • Hosting office hours where I help students who have difficulties understanding the class or lectures to share more about algorithms to interested students.
  • Contents include: dynamic programming, Dijkstra's, b-tree, etc

• WatchDog Project

  Are you safe here? - World's first mobile safety-risk monitor. (Full Stack)

  December 2018 - September 2019

  • Using public historical crime data, I developed this app to calculate safety risks for the current location of the user, with risk-factors like time of the day, weather and season taken into consideration.
  • Front-End: I developed a cross-platform mobile interface using React Native, which will send notifications when one of the factors becomes significant. The interface itself also shows the current values, together with a map to show the location of the incidents.
  • Back-End: Java and Go are used to read and analyze the data, then calculate the individual ratings.
  • Database: The historical crime data is stored locally and is accessed using MySQL/MongoDB.

• Visa-vis Project

  Task-tracker designed for OPT application

  September 2019 - December 2019

  • Task-tracker created specifically for the Optional Practical Training (OPT) application process for international students in the U.S.
  • Demo created using React library.

• Life

  September 1998 - Now

  • Hardest and most complicated project ever. No documentation at all.
  • Very expensive for the project supervisors (my parents), until production (college graduation.)
  • No testing/staging before deployment.
  • Down-time not allowed. Single instance, no backup/snapshot. RPO = 0; RTO = infinity.
  • Version 1.0 artifacts are built and ready to be deployed.

I spend my free time skiing, cooking Chinese food (authentic, of course) and sometimes skydiving.

And I'm a photographer.