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Univesity Of Toronto - Computer Engineering : Grad April 2022

  • Medium article:
  • From Food Delivery Drones to Research Platforms — The Journey of 21 Year-Old Entrepreneur Steven Zhao

    I was in the mindset of,hey I want to build something for myselt. I want to wake up and be like "Yeah I want to work on this today!"

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Experience

Experience

  • June 2021 - Present

    Crabel Capital Management

    Full Stack Engineer

    TypeScript, React, RPC, HighCharts, Python

    • Analyzed csv and roi with millions of data points from simulated data and presented the data in a user-friendly dashboard for US tech-based capital management company
    • Reduced DOM refresh frequency when interacting with chart by 90% using React methods and lazy loading
    • Reduced load time for analyzing and displaying data by 96% from 20 secs to 0.8 secs by using efficientalgorithms and caches

  • Aug 2020 - May 2021

    Dataraction Inc

    Chief Technology Officer

    JavaScript, React, Next.Js, LoopBack, NodeJs, GraphQL, PostGres, MongoDB, Kubernetes, OpenShift, WebSocket, Agora

    • Brought in over 1500 sign ups and 100 live viewers per event (still growing) and succeeded in helping the company get in revenue through a client contract worth $5000/month
    • Hired, coached, and led 10 developers using Agile management to build a SaaS and stand-alone live streamingplatform with React (later migrated to Next.JS) front end with JEST for testing
    • Led team to build a fully functional Postgres and MongoDB database on Loopback 4 (Node.js framework withGraphQL) and real-time comments, polls, and reactions with WebSocket
    • Initialized and maintained backend on Kubernetes cluster containerized with Docker, and later migrated toOpenShift to better log user activity for analytics

  • May 2020 - Aug 2020

    Google

    Software Engineering Intern

    Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, RPC

    • Developed a feature on Google Travel involving complex modeling in considering user behavior, impact onrevenue, and creative logging to maximize feature
    • Utilized complex web frameworks, RPCs (remote procedural call), and services using Java and JavaScript
    • Completed the entire software engineering development process; wrote a comprehensive design doc, wrote unittests, went through design reviews / discussions

  • May 2019 - Aug 2019

    Google

    Software Engineering Intern

    Objective C, JavaScript, iOS

    • Developed and rolled out a button for Gmail iOS which is visible in iOS App
    • Implemented an entirely new interaction handler for iPad Gmail iOS using native Objective C with JavaScriptwith unit tests and integration tests and set the foundation for future development
    • Wrote a comprehensive design doc and went through design reviews/discussions and QA review

Skill

Skills

1 Expert

Java, JavaScript, HTML/CSS/PHP, React, Next, Node, Objective C, MongoDB, Git, Flutter, Firebase
2 Advanced

Python, Django, Objective C, Swift, Postgres, MySQL, WebSocket, RPC
3 Intermediate

C++, C, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, SpringBoot, TensorFlow, PyTorch, MATLAB
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