Qualifications
- Experienced in software development, with emphases on product, data, and algorithms
- Proficient in C++, C, Java, Python, JavaScript, PHP, HTML/CSS, SQL, and UNIX-like environments
- Familiar with C#, R, MATLAB, Mathematica, Lisp, Prolog, Haskell, Verlog/VHDL, and Latex
Education
| H. B.Sc. | University of Toronto | 2015 – 2019 |
- Honours Bachelor of Science, with high distinction (GPA: 3.87)
- Double majors in Computer Science and Statistics, with a specialist focus in Artificial Intelligence
- Activities: ACM ICPC, UofTHacks, CSSU, CSEC
Experience
| Software Engineer | 2019 – Present |
- Instagram Growth Acquisition (Menlo Park, CA)
- Top-of-funnel growth hacking to bring non-users to the Instagram site and app
- My experiments directly drove +13 million monthly active users/year through channels like web conversion, web embeds, search engine optimization, app store optimization, link sharing, and other conversion products.
- Technologies: JavaScript (React/Redux), Python (Django), PHP (Hack)
| Software Engineering Intern | Airbnb | Summer 2018 |
- Trust and Safety: User Knowledge (San Francisco, CA)
- Developed a weakly-supervised machine learning model that automatically labels training data using NLP, saving thousands of hours of manual ops work on user background checks
- Technologies: Python, Ruby, TensorFlow, SpaCy, Snorkel
| Software Engineering Intern | Summer 2016, 2017 |
- Data Infrastructure and Analysis (Mountain View, CA)
- Developed automation tools for Evenflow, the distributed system for Google AdWords log aggregation
- DoubleClick Bid Manager (New York, NY)
- Used millions of Google Maps business chains to grow ad campaign geotargeting coverage by 500%
- On 20% time, developed problems for the 2016 Google Code Jam World Finals in New York
- Technologies: C++, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, BigTable, MapReduce, Colossus, S2 Geometry Library
Distinctions
- 2015 – 2018 UofT Scholars Award, Dean’s List, and the Dr. Charles and Margaret Brown Award
- 2015 Bronze Medalist, Canadian Computing Olympiad (CCO)—top 20 of 3000 in Canada
- 2013 – 2015 Gold Division, United States of America Computing Olympiad (USACO)
- 2012 1st place, U.S. National School Scrabble Championship—guest appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Bio: I am a Canadian citizen, fluent in English and Mandarin. My interests are cooking, film, and jazz.