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Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

S&P Global Rating’s Structured Finance Team• Developed an application for automated credit rating letter generation, replacing Excel marocs, which accelerated letter generation by 50%• Designed scalable microservices using Kubernetes and developed SOAP/REST APIs with Spring Boot• Integrated automated API testing with Postman and unit testing with JUnit, increasing testing coverage by 70%• Leveraged Agile development using Azure DevOps and weekly sprints, streamlining workflows through CI/CD pipelines

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Department of Economics — Supervisor: Loren Brandt• Built a topic modeling pipeline to cluster key topics using BERTopic model on 1000+ China economic policy documents and conducted topic matching using natural language processing (NLP) methods• Performed research on key topics using regression to identify correlations across geographical, demographic, and temporal dataset

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Department of Political Science — Supervisor: Lynette H. Ong• Conducted sentiment analysis on personal diaries to analyze the impact of government policy under Covid lockdown, using Linear Discriminant Analysis.• Performed logistic regression analysis using R to quantify impact of state repression methods on citizen response. Improved the model accuracy by adding geographical fixed effect and performing regularization.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Department of Lingustics — Supervisor: Naomi Nagy• Assisted in the development of an RNN model for Jyutping-to-Chinese Character transliteration, achieving a character error rate (CER) of 0.21 by introducing a corpus-based imputation method to resolve inconsistency in transcriptions.• Sourced and processed over 10,000 data entries from 65+ Cantonese interview transcriptions.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Developed the A11YLabs Simulation UI, simplifying scanning WCAG violations for developers.• Engineered a dynamic reporting module for exporting accessibility scan results in various formats.• Incorporated visual data insights in the compliance reports, reducing compliance review time by 30%• Led the implementation of configurable parameters for webpage scans using Puppteer, enabling real-time simulation

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Tutored students in weekly private sessions with detailed lesson plans.• Well-versed in simplifying coding concepts in a encouraging environment while coaching students to think critically to solve problems and develop effective study habits.• Set tailor-made schedules for every student to keep up with learning progress

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Improved Department’s website design with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.• Created weekly language related content on the department’s social media platforms• Responsible for coordinating department events and communicating between departments• Demonstrated strong communication and writing skills