Experience
2023 — Now
San Jose, California, United States
2019 — 2023
Palo Alto, California, United States
(JS, PHP, AWS, Node.js, Java, Pro Ads[Monetization] & SEO)
Developed and owned backend services for large-scale user-facing web applications
Maintained and enhanced online Ads system with multi-billion dollar revenue
Worked with cross-functional teams to help professionals advertise their business, implemented new web components, and conducted A/B Tests for better ads serving
Elevated the Leads Quality through spam-level analysis utilizing Message Queue(MQ) and the Data Warehouse / Big Data
Identified performance improvement opportunities and cut the runtime by half through Solr and Ads server(Java) adjustments, leading to 5% retention increment
Built and guided several end-to-end internal tools, starting from the system and data (MySQL) design docs, service platform(Thrift & PHP) to test automations; 3+ web teams benefited from these tools
Mentored peers in tasks and career growth
2018 — 2019
San Francisco Bay Area
(JS, Go, Gorilla, AWS, React, Redux, GA, Material UI, Antd)
Designed and built a React/Redux web application to monitor trading activities
Worked in a fast-paced, agile environment consisting of a cross-functional team implementing and deploying user email system with internationalization
Created detailed technical designs, code, and unit tests for custom applications and data flows in the context of projects, releases, and production support
Proactively innovated solutions to improve the security of RESTful APIs for KYC approval and MFA, provided technical estimates for user stories, articulated any technical risks and assumptions
Performed code reviews and debugging, ensured code quality and reliability through unit and integration tests
Established productive working relationships and maintained effective communications with teammates, clients, and end-users
Greater San Diego Area
Statistical Visual Computational Laboratory (SVCL), Advisor: Nuno Vasconcelos
Image Collection with AR.Drone — Python, Computer Vision
Integrated the AR.Drone’s driver and OpenCV through Robot Operating System Framework to automate the image collection
Designed classes and objects for image collection under category of ImageNet and ModelNet
Utilized ResNet, AlexNet and VGG to run experiments on dataset, ImageNet and ModelNet
Participated in design discussions and review sessions with team members, submitted paper to European Conference on Computer Vision in March 2018
9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0021
Early Research Scholar Program (selective), Advisor: Andrew B. Kahng
Natural-Sounding Speech Synthesizer — Python
Decreased the size of databases using Set Cover and the concept of domain-specific synthesis
Devised and Implemented tags to organize the databases based on unit-selection synthesis
Applied Dynamic Programming to efficiently retrieve the data and achieve high naturalness
Incorporated digital processing to better improve output quality
Identified and suggested improvements in methods, planed project of limited duration and scope, troubleshot when erroneous or unexpected results occurred
Education
UC San Diego