backend_infra.typ

@@ -5,14 +5,17 @@
   #work_entry(
     "University of Waterloo",
     "B.A.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Honours — 3.7/4.0 GPA",
-    start_date: "Sep 2022",
+    start_date: "2022",
-    end_date: "Apr 2027",
+    end_date: "2026",
     location: "Waterloo, ON",
     tasks: (
-      [*Involvements*: UW Orbital Satellite Design Team, Intramurals (Beach
+      // [Courses: Object-oriented programming, data structures & algorithms, concurrency,
-        Volleyball), Creative Writing Club (Founder)],
+      //   operating systems],
-      [*Hackathons*: #link("https://devpost.com/software/poof-3qshno")[TreeHacks 2025],
+      [*Courses*: Object-oriented programming, data structures & algorithms,
-        StormHacks 2022 (#link("https://devpost.com/software/perdiem")[EdTech Winner]),
+        concurrency, operating systems],
+      [*Involvements*: Hack the North (Organiser), UW Orbital Satellite Design Team,
+        Intramurals (Beach Volleyball)],
+      [*Awards*: StormHacks 2022 (#link("https://devpost.com/software/perdiem")[EdTech Winner]),
         YRHacks 2022 (#link("https://devpost.com/software/resketch")[IBM Open Source Winner])],
     ),
   )
@@ -32,72 +35,30 @@
 = Experience
 
 #indent[
-  #work_entry(
-    "Backend Lead",
-    "Hack the North",
-    company_link: "https://hackthenorth.com",
-    start_date: "Mar 2023",
-    end_date: "Jan 2025",
-    location: "Waterloo, ON",
-    tools: "TypeScript, Express, Postgres, Kubernetes",
-    tasks: (
-      [Led 6-person engineering team, shipping shift scheduling system and hardware
-        inventory system to *6000+ users*],
-      [Streamlined event check-in times for *1900+* guests by automatically generating
-        Apple Wallet passes],
-      [Overhauled CI/CD pipelines, speeding up builds by *35%* by parallelising testing
-        and type checking with *Buildkite*],
-      [Resolved slowdowns by *introducing OpenTelemetry tracing* onto *Grafana*
-        dashboards managed in *Kubernetes*],
-      [ Slashed dev server reload time by *93%* by introducing threading and
-        pre-transpiling generated code ],
-    ),
-  )
-
   #work_entry(
     "Software Engineering Intern",
-    "Magna (YC W22)",
+    "Magna",
     company_link: "https://magna.so",
     start_date: "Sep 2024",
     end_date: "Dec 2024",
     location: "New York, NY",
     tools: "Rust, TypeScript, Solidity, React, GraphQL",
     tasks: (
-      [Enabled *one-click creation and deployment* of
+      [Shipped dashboard to enable *one-click creation and deployment* of
         #link("https://claim.paramgaming.com/")[landing] #link("https://claim.moonray.game/")[pages]
-        that each distribute *1 million+* token allocations],
+        to distribute customer tokens],
-      [Investigated and *improved initial load times by >60%* for client sites by
-        caching blockchain reads in *Redis*],
       [Created and refactored data models, controllers, and *GraphQL APIs* to store and
         deploy site configurations],
-      [Reduced boilerplate to write database queries by *90%* decoupling business and
+      [Investigated and *improved initial load times by >60%* for client sites by
-        domain logic],
+        caching blockchain reads in *Redis*],
+      [Spearheaded backend refactor to the mediator pattern to decouple business logic
+        from the database and server],
     ),
   )
 
-  // #work_entry(
-  //   "Data Engineer",
-  //   "Archive Of Our Own",
-  //   company_link: "https://www.transformativeworks.org/",
-  //   start_date: "Jan 2024",
-  //   end_date: "Sep 2024",
-  //   location: "Remote",
-  //   tools: "Python, Ruby, Rails, Docker",
-  //   tasks: (
-  //     [?? Imported #link(
-  //         "https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/30949",
-  //       )[*3* now-defunct sites']
-  //       content databases for #link(
-  //         "https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/31009",
-  //       )[*8+ million registered users*] by building ETL pipelines],
-  //     [Introduced static typing to Python codebase with *mypy* to catch *10+*
-  //       production bugs and improve maintainability],
-  //   ),
-  // )
-
   #work_entry(
     "Software Engineering Intern",
-    "Dropbase (YC W20)",
+    "Dropbase",
     company_link: "https://dropbase.io",
     start_date: "May 2023",
     end_date: "Aug 2023",
@@ -110,8 +71,8 @@
         enterprise users* in *Python* and *React*],
       [Designed *merge conflict resolution system* to handle data mismatches, reducing
         user-reported errors by *35%*],
-      [Built a unified API to seamlessly query and filter *8 data sources* such as
+      [Built extensible classes and *abstractions* to unify interfacing with *8 data
-        MySQL, Airtable, and Stripe],
+        sources*, such as MySQL and Airtable],
       // [Developed a serverless microservice to asynchronously ingest email attachments
       //   directly into ETL pipelines],
       // [??? emphasise test driven development or remove line *Reduced request errors by 30%* by creating backend testing infrastructure with
@@ -121,7 +82,27 @@
   )
 
   #work_entry(
-    "Software Developer Intern",
+    "Backend Lead",
+    "Hack the North",
+    company_link: "https://hackthenorth.com",
+    start_date: "Mar 2023",
+    end_date: "Oct 2024",
+    location: "Waterloo, ON",
+    tools: "TypeScript, Express, Postgres, Kubernetes",
+    tasks: (
+      [Led 6-person engineering team, shipping shift scheduling system and hardware
+        inventory system to *6000+ users*],
+      [Streamlined event check-in times for *1900+* guests by automatically generating
+        Apple Wallet passes over Express],
+      [Overhauled CI/CD pipelines, speeding up builds by *35%* by parallelising testing
+        and type checking with *Buildkite*],
+      [Resolved slowdowns by *introducing OpenTelemetry tracing* onto *Grafana*
+        dashboards managed in *Kubernetes*],
+    ),
+  )
+
+  #work_entry(
+    "Software Developer",
     "Immigr8",
     company_link: "https://immigr8now.com",
     start_date: "Jan 2024",

lib/fontawesome.typ

@@ -263,6 +263,7 @@
   ("dots", "\u{f4ad}"),
   ("medical", "\u{f7f5}"),
   ("slash", "\u{f4b3}"),
+  ("plural.", "\u{f086}"),
   ("plural.dollar", "\u{f653}"),
 )
 #let compact-disc = symbol("\u{f51f}")

lib/template_common.typ

@@ -8,13 +8,13 @@
 #let name = "Daniel Chen"
 
 #let contact_data = ((
-  service: fa[#github],
-  display: "potatoeggy",
-  link: "https://github.com/potatoeggy",
-), (
   service: fa[#envelope],
   display: "d7chen@uwaterloo.ca",
   link: "mailto://d7chen@uwaterloo.ca",
+), (
+  service: fa[#github],
+  display: "potatoeggy",
+  link: "https://github.com/potatoeggy",
 ), (
   service: fa[#linkedin],
   display: "potatoeggy",