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#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, Honours — 3.7/4.0 GPA",
start_date: "Sep 2022",
end_date: "Apr 2027",
location: "Waterloo, ON",
tasks: (
[*Involvements*: UW Orbital Satellite Design Team, Intramurals (Beach
Volleyball), Creative Writing Club (Founder)],
[*Hackathons*: #link("https://devpost.com/software/poof-3qshno")[TreeHacks 2025],
StormHacks 2022 (#link("https://devpost.com/software/perdiem")[EdTech Winner]),
YRHacks 2022 (#link("https://devpost.com/software/resketch")[IBM Open Source Winner])],
),
)
]
#let skills = indent[
*Languages:* Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Rust, Java, C/C++, SQL, HTML/CSS \
// Dart
*Frameworks:* Node, React, Vue, GraphQL, Spring Boot, Express, Redis, Terraform,
Prisma, Apollo, Axum \
*Tools:* Linux, Postgres, Git, Docker, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Figma, Jenkins,
nginx // Jenkins, systemd, Jira
]
#show: doc => template_common(education, skills, doc)
= Experience
#indent[
#work_entry(
"Ramp",
"Software Engineering Intern (Incoming Summer 2026)",
company_link: "https://ramp.com",
start_date: "May 2026",
end_date: "Aug 2026",
location: "New York, NY",
tasks: ([???], [???], [???]),
)
#work_entry(
"Rippling",
"Software Engineering Intern (Incoming Winter 2026)",
company_link: "https://rippling.com",
start_date: "Feb 2026",
end_date: "Apr 2026",
location: "New York, NY",
tasks: ([???], [???], [???]),
)
#work_entry(
"Squint",
"Software Engineering Intern",
company_link: "https://squint.ai",
start_date: "May 2025",
end_date: "Aug 2025",
location: "San Francisco, CA",
tools: "Python, TypeScript, React, Postgres, AWS",
tasks: (
[Architected *real-time pub/sub notifications framework & pipeline*, enabling
*SLA-compliant alerts* for enterprise clients by routing system events to create
*300+ daily* downstream notifications],
[Engineered *multi-language data models transformer* by parsing and editing
*TypeScript & Python ASTs*, enabling *unified type safety* across the entire
stack: web, mobile, and backend],
// [Integrated notifications system with *roles and subscriptions* to deliver
// targeted email, in-app, or SMS messages],
[Built dependency-aware deployment system that performs static analysis on import
graphs and code diffs to identify impacted services, *enabling automated partial
rollouts* and *cutting deployment latency by 90%*],
),
)
#work_entry(
"Hack the North",
"Backend & Infrastructure Lead",
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* to ship shift scheduling and hardware inventory
tools to *1500+ event attendees*],
[*Launched bus registration platform* to *1000+ hackers*, featuring live capacity
tracking and email confirmations],
// [Overhauled CI/CD pipelines, *speeding up builds by 35%* by parallelising testing
// and type checking with Buildkite],
[Profiled performance bottlenecks by adding *OpenTelemetry tracing* to Grafana
dashboards on *Kubernetes*],
),
)
// #work_entry(
// "Magna (YC W22)",
// "Software Engineering Intern",
// 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
// #link("https://claim.paramgaming.com/")[claim] #link("https://claim.moonray.game/")[portals],
// scaling to distribute *1M+* digital asset allocations],
// [Investigated and *improved initial load times by >60%* for client sites by
// caching blockchain reads in *Redis*],
// [Migrated internal systems & libraries to an event-based architecture, reducing
// query boilerplate by *50%*],
// ),
// )
// #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(
"Dropbase (YC W20)",
"Software Engineering Intern",
company_link: "https://dropbase.io",
start_date: "May 2023",
end_date: "Aug 2023",
location: "Remote",
tools: "TypeScript, Python, React, Postgres, AWS",
tasks: (
[*Shipped static analysis tool* for platform's *custom SQL dialect* by
recursively processing an abstract syntax tree],
[Architected platform to clone, sync, and visualise databases for *3000+
enterprise users* in *Python* and *React*],
[*Designed merge conflict resolution system* to handle data mismatches, reducing
user-reported errors by *20%*],
// [Built a unified API to seamlessly query and filter *8 data sources* such as
// MySQL, Airtable, and Stripe],
// [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(
// "Software Developer Intern",
// "Immigr8",
// company_link: "https://immigr8now.com",
// start_date: "Jan 2024",
// end_date: "Apr 2024",
// location: "Remote",
// tools: "TypeScript, Spring Boot, React, Postgres, Terraform, AWS",
// tasks: (
// [Built and launched passport/private document storage platform for *200+ users*
// using *Spring Boot* and *React*],
// [Secured REST endpoints with *role-based permissions* and *JWTs*; monitored and
// logged alerts via CloudWatch],
// [Implemented document *OCR pipeline* with Lambda, Textract, and *S3* to
// automatically parse and tag uploads],
// [Created parallel *CI/CD system from scratch* with *Terraform* and Jenkins to
// deploy *AWS Lambdas* on commit], // BE-infra only, FE ver is admin dashboard
// ),
// )
]
= Projects
#indent[
#project(
"Mandown",
"Python, Qt",
repo_link: "https://github.com/potatoeggy/mandown",
tasks: (
[Created a CLI and GUI to download and convert webcomics into e-ink-optimised
files open-source over *3 years*],
[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(
// "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(
// "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 client/server game with *real-time
// multiplayer* in *Vue* and *WebSockets*],
// [Designed a *custom JSON protocol* over *WebSockets* to synchronise game state
// and handle buzzer events],
// ),
// )
// #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
]