# Quincy Thai > Incoming SWE @ Fieldguide | CS @ UC Berkeley Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/quincythai I am a first-generation college and transfer student from Hayward, CA. I’m driven by a love for beautiful design systems and building products that are effortless to use to make people’s lives easier. I’m always learning and excited to tackle challenges that push me to grow. Reach out at quincythai [at] berkeley [dot] edu to talk about absolutely anything. I'd love to hear about your story or just chat. ## Work Experience ### Incoming Software Engineer @ Fieldguide Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Starting in April 2026 ### Developer @ Web Development at Berkeley Jan 2024 – Present | Berkeley, California, United States • Drive full-stack development and project leadership for multiple industry-sponsored products, generating over $30,000 in revenue for the club. • Lead cross-functional teams, conduct stakeholder meetings, and build scalable applications using modern frameworks including React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, MongoDB, SQL, AWS, and Tailwind. ### Developer @ Berkeleytime Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Berkeley, California, United States • Integrated UC Berkeley’s registrar calendar (70+ dates/semester) into enrollment-history charts to improve registration guidance for 40,000+ users • Built a GraphQL comment feature for 13,000+ courses with server-side filtering and React/Apollo client components • Eliminated N+1 issues and halved API latency by integrating DataLoader batching and Redis caching ### Student Researcher @ UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Berkeley, California, United States • Worked on the Wellness Analytics Portal, an application to deliver mental health insights for schools and businesses, upgrading it to production-grade reliability. • Secured the platform using Firebase role-based authentication and protected routing with Node.js and TypeScript. • Refactored the codebase with React Contexts and standardized routing, improving performance by 20% and resolving critical bugs. • Designed and implemented a new signup flow with organization validation and API-key generation, reducing manager onboarding time from days to minutes. • Built a lead-admin interface to manage user invitations and dynamic permissions. • Cleaned and standardized survey data using Google Cloud BigQuery test datasets, and resolved Chart.js rendering issues through input sanitization. ### Junior Mentor @ Computer Science Mentors Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Berkeley, California, United States • Lead weekly sections for small student groups, teaching data structures concepts for UC Berkeley's data structures course (1200+ students) • Facilitate midterm and final review sessions with 94% of students expressing interest in returning for future sessions • Foster collaborative, inclusive learning environments by providing personalized support to students (notably the affinity Transfer section) ### Full Stack Developer @ Pedagology Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Berkeley, California, United States • Developed frontend and backend systems for AI-driven platform that generates customizable worksheets, saving over 80,000+ minutes for users and supporting 40,000+ educators worldwide • Created homepage/buyer dashboard using Solid.js, Tailwind, including pagination, search, carousel, and dynamic viewports • Developed user and worksheet schemas using TypeORM, created tables using PostgreSQL on NeonDB, and vector embedding querying search system using pgvector and OpenAI API to search for most similar, smart queries • Integrated Google login using Nextauth to authorize worksheet filtering using grades, subjects, user id on protected routes for Stripe • Fetched jurisdictions and sets from Common Standards API, and generated statistics for database performance ### Full Stack Developer @ Alecto AI Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Berkeley, California, United States • Developed full-stack applications for AI-powered platform (2000+ users) leveraging facial recognition technology to identify and remove images off the internet • Integrated Flask FaceNet API and into Node.js backend to perform face embedding generation and comparison to images in Firebase database • Created endpoints for generating, storing, and updating face embeddings for user verification in Firebase database • Developed new website using Next.js, Tailwind, and deployed using Google Cloud Run and Docker • Established admin web application for validating mobile user profiles and moderating posts/comments for 2000+ users on mobile app • Used puppeteer library to scrape web links from Yandex API search of similar images for app demo ### Chabot Game Lab @ Chabot College Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Hayward, California, United States Mentored 20 underserved middle/high school students in a hands-on game design program. Promoted peer bonds and team facilitation to a 97% success rate with 62 students. (75% of students are from historically marginalized groups). Instructed groups on 2D Game Development environments, tabletop game design, UX/UI, and troubleshooted PCs. Facilitated group discussions, designed learning environments for [interpersonal] SEL skills, gave student feedback ### Teaching Assistant @ Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF) Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Jose, California, United States Facilitated group learning of 40+ middle school students in historically underrepresented communities in Hayward / San Jose about block-code programming and Microbit hardware. Organized and taught curriculum, troubleshooted software/hardware, and developed students' critical thinking skills. ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science University of California, Berkeley ### Computer Science Chabot College ### Peralta Community College District ### Computer Science Diablo Valley College ### High School Diploma in High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates Castro Valley High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/quincythai --- Source: https://flows.cv/quincythai JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/quincythai/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10