Welcome
Hi! I'm currently working as a software engineer remotely at LimeBike, a startup in Silicon Valley. I recently graduated from the University of Waterloo.
This site is a quick intro to myself for recruiters, new friends, and anyone who might be interested in who I am.
My #1 hobby is coding. I've been coding since elementary school, when I learned to code to modify a video game. I also enjoy playing board games video games (Smash Bros, Mario Kart, Pokemon), (Avalon, Coup, Go), traveling, and learning about other people's perspectives on life.
Fun fact: my first job was as a magic tricks teacher.
2018
University of Waterloo
Bachelor of Computer Science, Psychology Minor
Dean's Honors List, President's Scholarship.
2017
Machine Learning Intern, SEO Team
Trained a model to classify whether search terms are "appropriate" as Pinterest topics.
Created SEO experiments such as re-ranking Pin descriptions and leveraging Pin buttons for backlinks.
2016
Front-End Intern, Content Creation Team
Allowed users to save drafts on web.
Decreased perceived wait time for uploading media.
Software Engineering Intern, Chrome Metrics Team
Wrote a tool to find unused logging in Chrome's source code and automatically remove them.
Built visualizations of high-dimensional Chrome usage data.
Hackathons
TreeHacks - made a web app to help strangers become friends
Launch Hackathon - made a website to find and share local events (link)
2015
Square
Software Engineering Intern, Online Store Team
Helped build an online marketplace for Square's merchants.
Hackathons
DeltaHacks - made an Android app to help colorblind persons differentiate more colors, won Best Mobile Hack and 3rd place overall (link)
Cal Hacks - made a web inspector with gesture controls using a Leap Motion (link)
2014
Hackathons
Hack the North - made a web tool to find trends on Twitter (link)
2011 - 2014
OmniFeed
Built a website that made reading news quicker by recommending relevant news articles and summarizing them. Attained 100k monthly visitors.
Web Team Leader
Led a team of around 10 students to build the school website. We also gave each teacher a blog and helped administrators build tools to work more efficiently.
Programming Club Leader
Taught students competitive programming techniques and organized teams to participate in programming competitions.
2008 - 2010
Linksku
Built a social bookmarking site to share and discover interesting links. I probably learned most of my web development skills by building Linksku, such as Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Linux, SEO, marketing, and computer security.
Projects
OmniFeed
2012 - 2016 (shut down)
OmniFeed removes the clutter from your news feed to make it easier to find the news you care about.
Linksku
2010 - 2012 (shut down)
Linksku allows users to share and discover links to the most popular sites and articles on the Internet.
WP Tutor.io
2016 - 2017
WPTutor.io is a blog for WordPress tutorials, tips, and tricks.
Crypto Trading Bots
2017 - 2018
Experimenting with various trading strategies. I may open source some of it soon.
Significant Influences on My Life
Rich Dad Poor Dad
Rich Dad Poor Dad made me want to become an entrepreneur.
Drive
Drive renewed my interest in learning for fun (as opposed to learning for high grades).
The Social Network
The Social Network inspired me to want to start an Internet startup and build the "next big thing".