• Evaluated payment integration with third-party vendor based on PCI compliance requirements.• Stood up Kotlin deployable target (microservice) that runs on Kubernetes, which serves as the API layer in the Backends-for-Frontends (BFF) architecture.• Session-cookie-based user auth implementation with Kotlin, Dagger, and Dropwizard framework.• Responsible for team-wide backend infrastructure and its scalability. Conducted load testing with Locust.

• Conceived and drove the creation of Affirm’s browser extension as a team, which won the 2021 Affirm Hackathon and led to the feature’s production.• Onboarded and led development sprints for 4 contracting engineers. Ran daily stand-ups and planned sprints with tech leads and manager.• Built a tooling suite for real-time and scheduled deployments of Marketplace content, saving business and engineering teams hours per week.

• Partnered with design and product to introduce a marketplace on the user-facing website. • Refactored React app with Redux and reduced total size of resources by up to 80% with user-agent-based conditional image rendering, optimizing load time by 40%• Migrated the Search service based on Python and Elasticsearch out of a Monolithic repo in pursuance of the Service-Oriented Architecture.• Affiliate link platform (Viglink/Sovrn) integration.

Frameworks• Researched the ARIA specification and created solutions to help improve accessibility features.• Expanded testing infrastructure and conducted testing with UI Automation in Xcode.• Presented research findings to the Frameworks team and VP of Software Engineering.• Staffed at WWDC 2017 in the Accessibility Design Lab to facilitate lab sessions for app developers.

Web-Based VR Experiments Powered by the Crowd | WWW Conference 2018 (Sep. 2017 - May 2018)• Assisted in creating behavioral experiments in Virtual Reality with React VR. New York City Data Science Seminar Series (Apr. 2017 - Oct. 2017)• Maintained the website for NYC Data Science Seminar Series using ReactJS.

• Completed military training with highest honors and ranked 1st out of the 100-person company.• Assisted in preparation and vote counting for the 2016 Taiwan Presidential Election.• Designated event photographer at Taichung City Government - Tanzi District Office.

• Operated a catadioptric telescope for observation and astrophotography.• Utilized differential photometry to observe variable stars.• Performed LRGB processing and image stacking to render galaxcies.

TEDxTaida is the first for students, by students TEDx Organization in Taiwan. Through curating events and salons, designing activities, and engaging speakers with unique experiences, we aim to drive students to think about possibilities outside of school and inspire them to become contributors that better the world.• Collaborated with a team of 18 students to curating events and salons. We discover, interview, and rehearse with speakers, and reached 1000+ attendees during the first five events.• Initiated the social venture in sophomore year with the goal to encourage unconventional learning through engagement with diverse topics, and to make education more accessible through internet and technology.• Guided the establishment of TEDx at universities in Taiwan and Japan.