Working on the Java Infra team!

Committer to Node.js, the most popular tool for building JavaScript-based servers. Co-author of the new standard-compliant URL parser shipped in Node.js v8.0.0.Active developer of Inspector and VM subsystems.Contributions to both C++ and JavaScript code.Unofficial liaison between Web Platform communities and Node.js.

As a member of the top-level technical committee of the Node.js project, I helped oversee the technical development of the project. My responsibilities additionally included decision-making when technical conflicts occur, overall technical vision of the project, and also maintaining the governance of the project structure.

Assisted instructors in creating and grading assignments, holding office hours, administering exams, and just being there for the students.Spring 2023: CS 143 CompilersWinter 2023: CS 243 Program Analysis and OptimizationsFall 2022: CS 242 Programming LanguagesSpring 2022: CS 143 CompilersWinter 2022: CS 142 Web Applications (evaluations: 4.59/5)Fall 2021: CS 253 Web Security (evaluations: 4.58/5)

Part of a team that develops Stripe’s next-generation Java microservice framework.• Designed an automated framework for server performance experimentation and tuning (Python and Java) ◦ Defined concrete project requirements from ambiguous list of goals ◦ Demonstrated project management by coordinating progress with other infrastructure teams ◦ Worked with early adopters across Stripe to discover and address feature gaps• As a side project: implemented multiple long-requested features in an internal IntelliJ IDE plugin (Kotlin)

For the past year, I worked on the Media system in the Tesla vehicle software.

While at UCLA, I was a board officer for the Hack committee of the ACM student chapter. Working with other dedicated officers and mentors, I helped put up popular events for students to enjoy, including web dev workshops, beginner-friendly hackathons, cooking show–themed programming competitions, and more. I'm happy and proud to have made a difference on so many people's academic journey at UCLA, including helping more people get into CS.

Worked together with students as a Mentor through the Hackschool curriculum, focused on creating web applications with HTML/CSS/JavaScript and Node.js. Rated by workshop attendees as a top-three mentor.

After the acquisition of Chronicle by Google Cloud, I remained with the Backstory team to make the product better than ever. This was my second internship at Google.• Implemented real-time server-side search over petabyte-scale plain text using C++ and batch sql query• Configured intelligent scheduling of “big data” batch processing jobs to maximize parallelism and minimize latency• Volunteered as a teaching assistant for an internal JavaScript workshop

Born from X, Alphabet's moonshot factory, and inspired by Google’s own security techniques, Chronicle endeavored to advance cybersecurity for enterprises of all sizes. I worked on Chronicle's Backstory cybersecurity analytics platform for my summer internship. During my tenure, Chronicle was acquired by Google Cloud, and most of my accomplishments will listed under the Google entry.

Teaching and mentorship have always been a passion of mine, leading to my continued involvement in clubs on campus. As a part-time intern at Honey, I was not able to contribute to my team as actively as my full-time peers. But incidentally, I discovered the way for me to make the greatest impact is through mentorship, which was uniquely valuable to a team with many members new to web development or even software engineering in general.Through my entire internship, I was able to engage in peer programming sessions with almost all junior full-time engineers on my team, helping them be the most efficient at their jobs (even at the risk of stalling my own), as well as lending a hand when debugging is necessary. This work involved full-stack development using Node.js servers as well as a React-based frontend.Aside from mentorship, independently I focused on smaller self-contained tasks, such as the creation of JavaScript modules that integrated several online stores with the then-upcoming Honey Smart Shopping Assistant app.

As part of the Chrome team, I rewrote and drastically simplified the specification for the document.open() function in the HTML Standard. The core challenge of this project is designing the new algorithm to be both compatible with existing web content (18%+ of the entire web) and implementable in all major web browsers. I addressed it by dividing the project into roughly four stages:• I investigated how existing web browsers behave, by reading the C++ source code of three distinct open-source browsers, blackbox testing through JavaScript, as well as directly liaising and collaborating with engineers from all four major browser vendors (Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla).• When points of contention between different existing implementations occur, I leveraged Chrome user metrics, Google BigQuery, and the HTTP Archive public dataset to better understand how existing web content interact with the interface in question.• I created a comprehensive (1k+ lines) test suite in JavaScript to ensure compliance to the new specification, for the cross-browser Web Platform Tests project.• I authored the relevant section in the HTML Standard with rigorous specification language, as well as revised several peripheral algorithms that impact this function.Additionally, I modified existing Chrome C++ implementation of document.open() to be fully standard-compliant. It is in production as of Chrome 71 (late 2018).

I worked at my high school's cafeteria for a year, handling both cashier and cooking duties during every lunch.