- Software Developer - Master of Computer Science @ Rice University, graduating in Dec 2019. - Software Developer Internship @ Expedia, summer in 2019. - Experienced in AWS, Step Function, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, etc.

Experience

2022 — NowMicrosoftSoftware Engineer

2022 — Now

Redmond, Washington, United States

2020 — 2022Expedia GroupSoftware Engineer

2020 — 2022

Seattle, Washington, United States

Led and worked in several backend projects in the Risk & Fraud team, including latency improvement, reliability redesign, fraud pattern investigation and modeling, and mentorship.

2018 — 2020Rice UniversityGraduate Student & Individual Contributor

2018 — 2020

Drive Faster! (Application)

An open-source application to show real-time driving ETA in the menu bar, hands-free.

Created a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) application and set up Distance Matrix API.

Developed a script with Python for API integration with rate limit in consideration.

A real-time driving ETA is displayed in the menu bar with an adaptive strategy on time and date.

RiceBook (full stack)

a Facebook-like social network on Single Page Application w/ Restful API, MongoDB, etc.

Designed the data model and UX with functionalities including registration, authentication, profile, newsfeed, post, etc.

Constructed frontend components with AngularJS and styled with CSS and Bootstrap.

Implemented backend with Node.js for request handling and MongoDB for data storage.

Implemented test infrastructure with Karma (frontend) and Mocha (backend).

Minter (website + data index w/ retrieval)

A full-stack project to get daily tweets. An offline-version Twitter to serve my summer in China.

Designed and developed a multi-facet Tweeter search engine with Scrapy.

Used Apache Solr to index ~ 3M Tweets w/ multiple metrics (theme, keyword, region, etc.).

Built an AngularJS website providing advanced and responsive search functionality.

The Owl Puzzle Game (Front-end)

An online challenging but amusing puzzle game.

Designed the single-page application w/ navigation, sidebar and main section in styled CSS.

Implemented randomization of image pieces with adjustable difficult using HTML and JavaScript.

2019 — 2019Expedia GroupSoftware Developer Internship

2019 — 2019

Greater Seattle Area

The project started as a proof of concept for performance improvement in the Enterprise Risk & Security team. Building from scratch, the project certifies the performance gain by migrating the current in-house service to AWS. The team made the decision towards full migration based on the result.

Designed and created a serverless workflow using AWS Step Function to detect transaction fraud.

Implemented Util classes for JSON Parsing and HTTP GET & POST Request in the transaction process.

Developed AWS Lambda Functions for in-house services integration.

Initiated and drove the conversation with the downstream team for API endpoint compatibility.

Implemented exception handling and failure recovery for system robustness in the state machine.

Automated the workflow by using CloudWatch with dynamically scheduled tasks.

Education

2018 — 2019

Rice University

Master's degree

2018 — 2019