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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Designed the embedded system architecture that connected a microcontroller to various sensors, GUI applications, and other components to gather and process patient data.
• Main developer for the Java desktop application that serves as project GUI, allowing therapists to initiate data gathering sessions and save patient information.
• Implemented Agile software development process for adding new features and processing user feedback.
• Competed in RESNA 2016 Student Design Competition (Finalist) and 2017 Pacific Venture Capital Competition (Semi-Finalist).

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Developed and deployed full stack web applications using C#, JavaScript, ASP.NET, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Azure.
• Improved code maintainability and software project structure through employing Dependency Injection and MVC design patterns.
• Independently integrated front-end data visualization features to existing applications, using D3.js JavaScript library to create interactive widgets.
• Participated in the 2018 Energy Flows Hackathon, using D3.js and Python to create a web visualization of Canada's 2015 energy flow.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Demonstrated effective Python data science skills using Pandas and NumPy libraries to write scripts for bioinformatics analysis and data formatting.
• Utilized Linux shell scripting and Hadoop Distributed File System to split and reassemble large files across the internal computer cluster network.
• Improved genomic data assembly efficiency by performing SQL query optimization in PostgreSQL database.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Wrote Python scripts to set up Java SDK and other programming environments on the camp computers.
• Used JavaScript and C to create a variety of programming project templates such as Twitter bots, Arduino robots and Chrome extensions, designed to introduce the basics of software construction to students through.
• Demonstrated effective communication skills through teaching computer science principles to high school students (senior camps), emphasizing in developing computer programming and problem-solving skills.