#import "lib/template_common.typ": template_common, work_entry, project, indent, SMALL_STRONG
#let education = indent[
#work_entry(
"University of Waterloo",
"B.A.Sc. in Computer Engineering — 3.7/4.0 GPA",
start_date: "Sep 2022",
end_date: "Aug 2026",
location: "Waterloo, ON",
tasks: (
[Courses: Object-oriented programming, data structures & algorithms, digital
logic & circuits, operating systems],
[Extracurriculars: Hack the North Organising Team, UW Orbital Satellite Design
Team],
),
)
]
#let skills = indent[
*Languages:* Python, C, C++, Rust, Java, MATLAB, HTML/CSS/JavaScript \
// Dart
*Technologies:* Qt, PySide2, React, Spring Boot, Express, GraphQL \
// Qt, Jest / Pytest, Apollo, Prisma, Rails
*Tools:* Linux, Git, Docker, Quartus, Pytest, Jest, Postgres, AWS/GCP,
Kubernetes, Terraform // Jenkins, systemd, Jira
]
#show: doc => template_common(education, skills, doc)
= Experience
#indent[
#work_entry(
"Software Engineering Intern",
"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: (
[Created tooling to automate constructing and deploying new customer landing
portals based off of Figma designs],
[Developed a new external REST API for customers who wanted to access their token
data programmatically], // termination display (FE), external API for customers not using our platform (BE)
[Wrote and audited smart contracts on the Solana blockchain to add claim fees to
our token vesting platform],
),
)
#work_entry(
"Software Developer",
"Immigr8",
company_link: "https://immigr8now.com",
start_date: "Jan 2024",
end_date: "Apr 2024",
location: "Remote",
tools: "TypeScript, Spring Boot, React, Terraform, AWS",
tasks: (
[Owned end-to-end development of a secure document vault for users to upload ID
documents with S3 and Textract],
[Championed and shipped features for *SOC 2 security compliance*, including
*role-based permissions with JWTs* in Spring Boot, alert logging with
CloudWatch, and strong privacy controls for user data],
[Fully implemented the Calendly Auth Code OAuth2 flow with automated refresh of
expired access tokens],
[Created a parallel *CI/CD system from scratch* with Terraform and Jenkins to
automatically deploy AWS Lambdas], // BE-infra only, FE ver is admin dashboard
),
)
#work_entry(
"Software Engineering Intern",
"Dropbase",
company_link: "https://dropbase.io",
start_date: "May 2023",
end_date: "Aug 2023",
location: "Remote",
tools: "Python, TypeScript, React, AWS",
tasks: (
[Shipped an *LSP server for our custom query language*, including user-specific
autocomplete and syntax highlighting],
[Architected a data query builder and executor engine for customers to visualise
their data warehouses by custom-tailoring forms on-the-fly, supporting complex
nested logic for 3000+ enterprise users across 8 database types], //
[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
// *Pytest* to catch regressions and test new features across database engines with
// *90% code coverage*],
),
)
#work_entry(
"Backend / Infrastructure Developer",
"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: (
[Overhauled CI/CD pipelines, speeding up builds by *35%* by parallelising testing
and type checking],
[Introduced backend tracing with OpenTelemetry and Grafana to profile performance
issues in production],
[*Resolved load spike crashes* in prod by caching queries via *Redis* and
horizontally scaling services on *Kubernetes*],
),
)
]
= Awards
#indent[
#set strong(delta: SMALL_STRONG)
#show link: underline
- #link("https://devpost.com/software/perdiem")[Winner of the EdTech category] at
Simon Fraser University's StormHacks 2022 from 388 participants
- #link(
"https://devpost.com/software/resketch",
)[Winner of the IBM Open Source category]
at YRHacks 2022 for building Resketch
]
= Projects
#set strong(delta: SMALL_STRONG)
#indent[
// #project(
// "Game Boy Advance Emulator",
// "Rust, SDL2, Vulkan",
// repo_link: "https://github.com/potatoeggy/gbarr",
// tasks: (
// [Implemented an *ARMv7* emulator for old games to run on modern x86_64 platforms
// with *SDL2* and *Vulkan*],
// [WebGPU and WASM for portability, typestate to guarantee everything is always
// valid],
// ),
// )
#project(
"Mandown",
"Python, Qt",
repo_link: "https://github.com/potatoeggy/mandown",
tasks: (
[Created a CLI and GUI to scrape and convert webcomics into e-ink-optimised files
with a *plugin-based architecture*],
[Expanded support for new formats and features #link("https://github.com/potatoeggy/mandown/issues/55")[based on] #link("https://github.com/potatoeggy/mandown/issues/89")[user] #link("https://github.com/potatoeggy/mandown/issues/63")[demand],
minimising regressions with #link(
"https://github.com/potatoeggy/mandown/blob/master/tests/test_source_batoto.py",
)[E2E tests]],
[Implemented *image caching and multithreading* to increase download and
processing speeds by *300%*],
),
)
#project(
"PNG Crawler",
"C++",
tasks: (
[Developed a web crawler and a custom PNG validator to download and parse PNGs
from the internet with *libcurl*],
[Optimised the crawler to download and process images concurrently with *POSIX
threads* and curl_multi],
),
)
// #project(
// "Kobink",
// "Rust, Axum",
// repo_link: "https://github.com/potatoeggy/kobink",
// tasks: (
// [Built a backend to sync custom ebook files to Kobos by reverse-engineering and
// mimicking the Kobo Sync API],
// ),
// )
// #project(
// "Kobo Sync Server",
// "Rust, Axum",
// repo_link: "https://github.com/potatoeggy/kobink",
// tasks: (
// [Developed a *Rust* backend to sync custom ebook files to Kobos by reimplementing
// the Kobo Sync API],
// [Deployed the service behind an nginx reverse proxy and Cloudflare DNS to sync
// over the internet],
// ),
// )
// #project(
// "Genshin Rewards Simulator",
// "Vue, TypeScript",
// repo_link: "https://github.com/potatoeggy/primoprod",
// demo_link: "https://primoprod.vercel.app",
// tasks: (
// [Built a realistic and beautiful *loot box simulator* with CSS animations based
// off a popular game],
// [Reduced action latency by *90%* by lazily loading art assets at opportune times,
// such as during cutscenes],
// ),
// )
// #project(
// "Jeopardy!",
// "Vue, TypeScript, WebSockets",
// repo_link: "https://github.com/potatoeggy/jeopardy",
// demo_link: "https://jeopardy.eggworld.me/host",
// tasks: (
// [Developed a beautiful and polished game where participants buzz in on their
// devices over *WebSockets*],
// [Synchronised game state between clients and the host with shared types and the
// *observer pattern*],
// ),
// )
// #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", "Linux, Docker, nginx, systemd", demo_link: "https://eggworld.me")
// - Created a *self-hosted CI/CD pipeline* with *Gitea* to automatically deploy
// personal projects behind *nginx*
// - Containerised services with *Docker* and *systemd* to simplify deployment and
// management
]