feat: stronger points

such a scuffed project

Christopher Lam.typ

@@ -1,133 +0,0 @@
-#import "fontawesome.typ": fa, globe, github, linkedin, envelope, phone
-#import "lib.typ": template, work_entry, project, indent, SMALL_STRONG, DEFAULT_STRONG
-
-// orange!!
-#let color = rgb("#1f497d")
-#let name = "Christopher Lam"
-
-#let contact_data = (
-  (
-    service: fa[#phone],
-    display: "416-409-0886",
-    link: "tel:4164090886"
-  ),
-  (
-    service: fa[#envelope],
-    display: "christopher.peter.lam@protonmail.com",
-    link: "mailto://christopher.peter.lam@protonmail.com"
-  ),
-  (
-    service: fa[#linkedin],
-    display: "linkedin.com/in/christopherlam888",
-    link: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherlam888"
-  ),
-  (
-    service: fa[#github],
-    display: "github.com/christopherlam888",
-    link: "https://github.com/christopherlam888"
-  ),
-)
-
-#show: doc => template(name, contact_data, color, doc)
-
-// MAIN CONTENT STARTS here
-
-#let IMAGE_WIDTH = 1.5cm
-#place(bottom + center, dy: 1.5cm, image("monogram.png", width: IMAGE_WIDTH))
-
-= Technical Skills
-
-- *Languages:* Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Kotlin, C, C++, Rust, Dart, Java, SQL, XML, XSL, Bash
-- *Tools:* OpenCV, Flask, PostgreSQL, React, React Native, NodeJS, Express, MongoDB, Flutter, Linux
-
-= Experience
-
-#block(inset: (right: 0.5em))[
-#work_entry(
-  "Software Developer, Software Quality Analyst",
-  "i4i Infrastructure for Information",
-  location: "Toronto",
-  start_date: "May 2023", end_date: "Sep 2023",
-  tasks: (
-    [Developed a program to automate converting hundreds of client data values from Excel to Word metadata],
-    [Designed Python, XML, and XSL code to extract and process data to interface with existing software products],
-    [Performed 1000+ functional, security, and stress tests to ensure quality for clients like Pfizer and Astellas],
-    [Communicated with developers and clients to perform root cause analysis on hundreds of major issues],
-    [Coordinated with management and team members to delegate work, present results, and meet deadlines]
-  )
-)
-
-#work_entry(
-  "Electrical/Communications Subsystem Lead",
-  "UW Orbital Engineering Design Team",
-  start_date: "Sep 2022", end_date: "present",
-  location: "Waterloo",
-  tasks: (
-    [Implemented the Diffie-Hellman key exchange in C using a 3072-bit prime number and 256-bit keys],
-    [Managed a team of 10 to develop electrical and power, battery management, ADCS, and computer systems],
-    [Led the design of the custom transceiver by reviewing schematics and optimizing the layout per RF guidelines],
-    [Validated PCBs with power and RF testing, resulting in a recorded 34 dB gain measured by VNA S-parameters],
-    )
-  )
-]
-
-= Projects
-#set strong(delta: SMALL_STRONG)
-
-#indent[
-#project("Produce Palate", "https://github.com/christopherlam888/produce-palate", "Python, OpenCV, Scikit-learn, Flask")
-- Created an image preprocessing algorithm to reduce noise, perform contour detection, and enhance colours
-- Trained an AI image classifier model with KNN, Random Forest, and SVM algorithms tuned using grid search
-- Achieved 96% accuracy recognizing 5 distinct classes of fruits and vegetables in a web game built with Flask
-
-#project("Snake Wave", "https://github.com/olivia-yong/htn2023", "Python, OpenCV, Pygame, Flask, PostgreSQL, bcrypt")
-- Designed a snake game controlled by hand gestures using OpenCV and Google's MediaPipe ML model
-- Implemented a Flask API with PostgreSQL to handle user authentication with bcrypt and track a leaderboard
-
-#project("The Everyday Watch Collector App", "https://github.com/christopherlam888/the-ewc", "Kotlin, XML, React, NodeJS, Express, MongoDB, JavaScript")
-- Created a user-friendly interface to display 100+ glossary entries and 40+ videos using Kotlin and XML
-- Utilized Retrofit and Gson to retrieve API data in JSON with seamless fallback to local data upon Internet loss
-- Automated unit and instrumented tests using Espresso to ensure code quality and minimize regressions
-- Developed a contributions page using React to send web inputs through a POST request to the REST API
-- Deployed a REST API using NodeJS, Express, and MongoDB to perform CRUD operations on a cloud database
-
-#project("Catholic Companion (Saints App)", "https://github.com/christopherlam888/saints-app", "React Native, TypeScript, Python, BeautifulSoup")
-- Developed an app to display a saint of the day and a list of Catholic prayers in React Native and TypeScript
-- Devised a web scraping algorithm to extract data with BeautifulSoup and clean data with LanguageTool
-- Optimized performance with multithreading pools, resulting in a 5x increase in speed to retrieve 250 listings
-
-#project("RecipeReady", "https://github.com/christopherlam888/recipe-ready-frontend", "Python, Selenium, Flutter, Dart")
-- Produced a recipe app to help users plan daily meals with a weekly schedule and a generated grocery list
-- Gathered 500+ recipes by scraping with Selenium, and created a REST API to get data from a cloud database
-
-]
-
-= Education
-
-#indent[
-#work_entry(
-  "BASc Mechatronics Engineering",
-  "University of Waterloo",
-  start_date: "2022", end_date: "2027",
-  tasks: (
-    [GPA: 4.0/93%, Dean’s List, Faculty of Engineering Entrance Scholarship, President's Scholarship of Distinction],
-    [Courses & Concepts: Object-Oriented Programming, Algorithms and Data Structures, Circuits, Digital Logic],
-  )
-)
-]
-
-= Honours
-
-#show link: underline
-
-#block(inset: (right: 0.5em))[
-  #grid(
-    columns: (11fr, 2fr),
-    column-gutter: 1cm,
-    [
-      - 1st Place CubeSat Design Challenge, Canadian Satellite Design Challenge
-      - The Governor General's Academic Medal (Bronze Medal), Governor General of Canada
-    ],
-    align(right)[*#text(("2023", "2022").join("\n"))*]
-  )
-]

Daniel Chen.typ

@@ -0,0 +1,162 @@
+#import "fontawesome.typ": fa, globe, github, linkedin, envelope
+#import "lib.typ": template, work_entry, project, indent, SMALL_STRONG, DEFAULT_STRONG
+
+// orange!!
+#let color = rgb("#ff983e")
+#let name = "Daniel Chen"
+
+#let contact_data = ((
+  service: fa[#globe],
+  display: "eggworld.me",
+  link: "https://eggworld.me",
+), (
+  service: fa[#github],
+  display: "github.com/potatoeggy",
+  link: "https://github.com/potatoeggy",
+), (
+  service: fa[#linkedin],
+  display: "linkedin.com/in/potatoeggy",
+  link: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/potatoeggy/",
+), (
+  service: fa[#envelope],
+  display: "d7chen@uwaterloo.ca",
+  link: "mailto://d7chen@uwaterloo.ca",
+),)
+
+#show: doc => template(name, contact_data, color, doc)
+
+// MAIN CONTENT STARTS here
+
+= Skills
+
+#indent[
+  *Languages:* Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Rust, SQL, MATLAB, C, C++, Java,
+  HTML, CSS, Dart \
+  *Frameworks:* Node.js, Express, React, Next.js, Vue, Flutter, Qt, Prisma,
+  Apollo, Axum, Jest, Pytest \
+  *Tools:* Linux, Git, Docker, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Heroku,
+  OpenTelemetry, GraphQL, Webpack
+]
+
+= Experience
+
+#indent[
+  #show link: underline
+  #work_entry(
+    "Software Engineering Intern",
+    "Dropbase",
+    start_date: "May 2023",
+    end_date: "Aug 2023",
+    location: "Remote",
+    tasks: (
+      [Engineered a database-specific *SQL IDE autocompletion tool* via a heuristic
+        algorithm to validate queries],
+      [Developed a service to sync HubSpot and Airtable data with Google Sheets via
+        *AWS Lambda*],
+      [Constructed dynamic forms in *react-hook-form* by generating questions from the
+        backend on-the-fly],
+      [Created testing infrastructure for the backend with *Pytest* to catch
+        regressions across database engines],
+    ),
+  )
+
+  #work_entry(
+    "Backend Developer",
+    "Hack the North",
+    start_date: "Mar 2023",
+    end_date: "present",
+    location: "Waterloo, ON",
+    tasks: (
+      [Streamlined registration by dynamically generating *user-specific Apple Wallet
+        passes* over *Apollo GraphQL*],
+      [Horizontally scaled the *Node.js* server to handle *1000+ concurrent users* with
+        *Redis* and *Kubernetes*],
+      [Automated judging scheduling by creating a *greedy algorithm* to match judges to
+        project themes],
+      [Integrated *OpenTelemetry* and Grafana in a *Kubernetes* cluster to collect
+        traces and improve observability],
+    ),
+  )
+]
+
+= Projects
+#set strong(delta: SMALL_STRONG)
+
+#indent[
+  #project(
+    "Comic Downloader & Converter",
+    "https://github.com/potatoeggy/mandown",
+    "Python, Qt",
+  )
+  - Created a CLI and GUI to scrape, download, and convert webcomics into
+    e-ink-optimised ebooks (EPUB, PDF)
+  - Designed an *intermediate representation* to store metadata and images as a
+    standardised conversion target
+  - Implemented *image caching and multiprocessing* to increase download and update
+    speeds by *300%*
+  - Minimised regressions between release cycles by writing *unit and integration
+    tests* with 55% code coverage
+
+  #project(
+    "Kobo Sync Server",
+    "https://github.com/potatoeggy/kobink",
+    "Rust, Axum",
+  )
+  - Developed an Axum backend to *automatically convert and sync* ebooks to a Kobo
+    eReader over the network
+  - *Reverse-engineered* the Kobo eReader Sync API to support updating ebook
+    metadata and covers
+
+  #project(
+    "Genshin Simulator",
+    "https://github.com/potatoeggy/primoprod",
+    "Vue, TypeScript",
+  )
+  - Built an realistic and beautiful *loot box simulator* with fluid animations
+    based off a popular game
+  - Reduced action latency by *90%* by lazily loading art assets at opportune times,
+    such as during cutscenes
+
+  #project(
+    "RecipeReady",
+    "https://github.com/vincentjguo/recipeready-server",
+    "Flutter, Selenium, FastAPI, Android",
+  )
+  - Developed a *Flutter app* to generate recipes based on ingredients and filters
+    through a FastAPI server
+  - Scraped thousands of websites for recipes to build a database with a robust
+    *many-to-many tag system*
+  - Aggregated common ingredients heuristically to build a shopping list and a meal
+    plan for each week
+
+  // #project("Arch Linux Server", none, "Linux, nginx, systemd")
+  // - Created a *self-hosted CI/CD pipeline* with *Gitea* to automatically deploy
+  //   personal projects behind *nginx*
+  // - Set up *Jellyfin* for media streaming, a *Minecraft* server, *Calibre* for ebook
+  //   syncing, and other services
+]
+
+= Awards
+
+#show link: underline
+
+- Winner of the #link("https://github.com/anyuan-chen/resketch")[EdTech] prize at
+  StormHacks 2022 from 350+ participants
+- Winner of the #link("https://github.com/anyuan-chen/perdiem")[IBM Open Source] prize
+  at YRHacks 2022 from 90+ participants
+
+= Education
+
+#indent[
+  #work_entry(
+    "University of Waterloo",
+    "B.A.Sc. in Computer Engineering",
+    start_date: "Sep 2022",
+    end_date: "Apr 2027",
+    location: "Waterloo, ON",
+    tasks: (
+      [Courses: Object-oriented programming, data structures & algorithms, digital
+        computers & circuits],
+    ),
+  )
+]

README.md

@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ Release guidelines:
 
 - The major version represents the current academic year, e.g., both post-2A and 2B would be v2.
 - The minor version represents the current academic term, e.g., 2A would be v2.1. the x.0 releases are reserved for beta changes.
-- The patch versionr is incremented for any other reason.
+- The patch version is incremented for any other reason.

lib.typ

@@ -3,56 +3,60 @@
 #let DEFAULT_STRONG = 300;
 #let SMALL_STRONG = 200;
 
-#let TITLE_FONT = "Calibri"
+#let TITLE_FONT = "Bitter"
 #let HEADING_FONT = TITLE_FONT
-#let BODY_FONT = "Calibri"
+#let BODY_FONT = "Open Sans"
 
-#let BODY_FONT_SIZE = 11pt
+#let BODY_FONT_SIZE = 10pt
-#let HEADING_FONT_SIZE = 1.1em
+#let HEADING_FONT_SIZE = 1em
-#let TITLE_FONT_SIZE = 1.9em
+#let TITLE_FONT_SIZE = 2em
 
-#let HEADING_LINE_GAP = 1.2mm
+#let HEADING_LINE_GAP = 3mm
-#let BODY_LINE_HEIGHT = 0.6em
+#let BODY_LINE_HEIGHT = 0.85em
 
 // rest = not top
-#let PAGE_MARGINS = (rest: 0.35in, top: 0.3in, bottom: 0.3in)
+#let PAGE_MARGINS = (rest: 0.5in, top: 0.4in)
+
+// Format locations.
+#let format_location(location) = {
+  [_#block(above: 0.7em, location)_]
+}
 
 #let indent(content) = {
-  block(
+  block(inset: (left: 1em, right: 0.5em), content)
-    inset: (left: 1em, right: 0.5em),
-    content
-  )
 }
 
 // General entry that is split into a left and right half (for experience and education).
 #let cv_entry(left_content: none, right_content: none, details: none) = {
   stack(
     dir: ttb,
-    spacing: 0.6em,
+    spacing: 0.9em,
-    grid(
+    grid(columns: (11fr, 6fr), column-gutter: 1cm, {
-      columns: (13fr, 3fr),
+      set strong(delta: DEFAULT_STRONG)
-      column-gutter: 0.5cm,
+      set align(left)
-      {
+      left_content
-        set strong(delta: DEFAULT_STRONG)
+    }, {
-        set align(left)
+      set strong(delta: SMALL_STRONG)
-        left_content
+      set align(right)
-      },
+      right_content
-      {
+    }),
-        set strong(delta: SMALL_STRONG)
+    {
-        set align(right)
+      set align(left)
-        right_content
+      set strong(delta: SMALL_STRONG)
-      }
+      details
-  ),
+    },
-  {
+  )
-    set align(left)
-    set strong(delta: SMALL_STRONG)
-    details
-  }
-)
 }
 
 // Entry for work.
-#let work_entry(role, company, tasks: none, start_date: none, end_date: none, location: none, one_line: true) = {
+#let work_entry(
+  role,
+  company,
+  tasks: none,
+  start_date: none,
+  end_date: none,
+  location: none,
+) = {
   let task_list = if tasks != none {
     let list = []
     for task in tasks {
@@ -62,76 +66,71 @@
   } else {
     none
   }
-  cv_entry(
+  cv_entry(left_content: {
-    left_content: {
+    set par(leading: 0.75em)
-      text(1em)[*#role*, ]
+    text(1.1em)[*#role*]
-      text[#emph[#company]]
+    "\n"
-      if location != none {
+    set strong(delta: SMALL_STRONG)
-        text[_, #location _]
+    text[*#company*]
-      }
+  }, right_content: {
-    },
+    [*#start_date -- #end_date*]
-    right_content:  {
-      [*#start_date -- #end_date*]
 
-    },
+    if location != none {
-    details: task_list
+      "\n" + format_location(location)
-  )
+    }
+  }, details: task_list)
 }
 
 #let project(title, repo_link, tools) = {
   set strong(delta: DEFAULT_STRONG)
-  link(repo_link)[#text(1em)[*#title* #fa(github)]] + [ | _ #tools _]
+  if repo_link != none {
+    link(repo_link)[#text(1.1em)[*#title* #fa(github)]] + [ | _ #tools _ ]
+  } else {
+    text(1.1em)[*#title*] + [ | _ #tools _ ]
+  }
 }
 
-
 // Set name and contact data and format headings
 #let template(name, contact_data, color, doc) = {
   set page(margin: PAGE_MARGINS, paper: "us-letter")
   set list(indent: 1.25em, marker: [•])
-  set text(font: (BODY_FONT),  BODY_FONT_SIZE)
+  set text(font: (BODY_FONT), BODY_FONT_SIZE)
   set par(justify: true, leading: BODY_LINE_HEIGHT)
-
+  align(center)[
-  let header = {
+    #text(size: TITLE_FONT_SIZE, font: TITLE_FONT, fill: color)[*#name*]
-    align(center)[
+    #block(above: 0em, below: 1em)
-      #text(size: TITLE_FONT_SIZE, font: TITLE_FONT)[*#name*]
+    #{
-      #block(above: 0em, below: 0.6em)
+      if contact_data != none and contact_data.len() > 0 {
-      #set text(fill: rgb("#444"))
+        let elements = for el in contact_data {
-      #{
+          (link(el.link)[#{ el.service + " " + el.display }],)
-        if contact_data != none and contact_data.len() > 0 {
-          let elements = for el in contact_data {
-            (link(el.link)[#{el.service + " " + el.display}],)
-          }
-          // we love hacks
-          elements.slice(0, 2).join(" | ")
-          "\n"
-          elements.slice(2).join(" | ")
         }
+        text(1.1em)[#elements.join(" | ")]
       }
-      #v(3pt)
+    }
-    ]
+  ]
-  }
 
   show heading.where(level: 1): i => {
     set align(left + horizon)
-    let title = upper(i.body)
+    let title = smallcaps(i.body)
 
-    set block(above: 1em, below: 0.75em)
+    let colored_line(header_text) = style(styles => {
-      set text(size: BODY_FONT_SIZE, fill: color, font: HEADING_FONT)
+      let size = measure(header_text, styles)
-      stack(
+
-        dir: ttb,
+      // 100% - spacing - width of text
-        spacing: HEADING_LINE_GAP,
+      line(
-        
+        length: 100% - HEADING_LINE_GAP - size.width,
-        title,
+        stroke: (paint: color, thickness: 2pt, cap: "round"),
-        line(length: 100%, stroke: (paint: color, thickness: 0.5pt))
+      )
+    })
+
+    set block(above: 0.9em, below: 0.75em)
+    set text(size: 1em, fill: color, font: HEADING_FONT)
+    stack(
+      dir: ltr,
+      spacing: HEADING_LINE_GAP,
+      title,
+      box(height: 2pt, fill: color, colored_line(title)),
     )
-
   }
-  block(
+  doc
-    stroke: (paint: color, thickness: 3pt),
-    inset: 1.5em,
-  {
-    header
-    doc
-  }
-  )
 }