Dan Laufer Email & Phone Number

Canada

I was a teaching assistant for the following courses:- CSC347 (Information Security) during fall '23, fall '24░ ⇨ Skills taught: web security (XSS, SQL injection, CSRF, session fixation), exploiting/preventing buffer overruns, cryptography, network security, etc.- CSC207 (Software Design) during fall '22, fall '24░ ⇨ Skills taught: Java, design patterns, UML, object-oriented development, version control, unit testing, multithreading, etc.- CSC301 (Software Engineering) during winter '23 (head TA)░ ⇨ Distinguished as the lead tutorial teaching assistant, assuming responsibility for crafting and delivering engaging tutorial sessions on a regular basis, covering a wide range of technical subjects: React, Java, Docker, MongoDB, SQL, Microservices, CI/CD, Software Architecture, Agile Software Development, etc.░ ⇨ Devised stimulating activities and challenges to reinforce students' comprehension of the material presented in the tutorials, ensuring a solid grasp of the concepts.░ ⇨ Provided technical mentorship to students throughout a rigorous 4-month scrum development cycle, guiding multiple full stack projects to success.- CSC258 (Computer Architecture) during winter '23░ ⇨ Skills taught: RISC-V architecture, assembly programming, processor organization, memory hierarchy and caching, etc.- CSC209 (Systems Programming) during winter '22 and summer '22░ ⇨ Skills taught: C, Linux, Bash, concurrency, etc.- CSC148 (Introduction to Computer Science) during winter '21 and winter '22░ ⇨ Skills taught: Python, object-oriented programming, complexity analysis, data structures, etc.▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔In all of these positions, I... - Created new course content for tutorials/practicals.- Marked hundreds of assignment/exam submissions per term under tight deadlines to provide constructive feedback to to improve their computer science skills.- Led practicals/labs attended by 40+ students. - Invigilated midterms/exams

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

- Designed & developed a microservice that monitors and reports on real-time progress and metrics of test suite executions executing in parallel on a Kubernetes (K8s) cluster (K8s, Kafka, Redis, C#).- Created a React & C# web app that empowers teams to view their site-wide test suites at a glance, equipped with advanced filtering capabilities enabling efficient bulk-edits of test metadata and execution settings, all within a sleek and intuitive folder-like interface.- Integrated the TPS engine with Jira, enhancing platform accessibility and convenience by allowing developers to view results and execute tests directly through Jira ‘Xray’ tickets managed by this service (Azure, SQL Server, GraphQL, C#).

Markham, Ontario, Canada

- Developing performant, mulithreaded C++ code to analyze AMD GPU performance on the Windows Operating System. - Designed and implemented a full-stack web app to streamline the process of collecting, aggregating, and visualizing hardware performance metrics from executing CPU/GPU benchmarks on AMD GPUs (React, TypeScript, Flask, PostgreSQL).

Ontario, Canada

- Hosted biweekly technical workshops attended by 100+ UofT students on topics like React, Docker, AWS, etc.- Empowering students to expand their knowledge in technology and build solutions for their local communities.- Led professional development events such as resume reviews and mock technical interviews regularly for students.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

- Engineered & launched the ‘Retirement Blueprint’ tool using React and Django, featuring a modern UI that offers AI-driven personalized suggestions, calculators, graphs, etc to facilitate & optimize the process of the creation of retirement investment plans.- Implemented CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions to automate testing and deployment of the front/back-end code on AWS EC2 instances, leading to a substantial gain in developer productivity.- Spearheaded the development of a new investment portfolio comparison tool created using React and Django, allowing investors to easily analyze and compare various statistics/metrics across various stocks/ETFs/etc side-by-side.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Developed a multithreaded Python program that leveraged the Google Cloud Compute Engine to collect over 50 million Reddit comments from ‘r/WallStreetBets’ made between 2019-2021; this data was was featured in this research paper https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4384743 .

Oakville, Ontario, Canada

Created and served a large variety of espresso drinks and other beverages for customers.

Honours Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science, Information Security, Mathematics, 3.91/4.0 Cgpa (89% Average)

Activities and Societies: - Google Developer Student Clubs Technical and Workshop Lead from August 2021-August 2022. - I have been.

High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates

Activities and Societies: I took part in many programming competitions during my time here. Please see my "Achievements" section of this.