About Me

Hi there, my name is Alan!
Click 👉 Here for a footage of me landing a bottle flip in front of 250+ people

Coding

Full Stack Software Developer who loves creating and problem solving

Surfing & Snowboarding

Happiness comes in wave.

Music Production

7 years of Piano and Violin.
Click Here for the first song I made.

Sports

Varsity Football, Basketball and Rugby

Magic Tricks

Card, Coin, Rubber Band tricks. I also wrote a 4000 words academic essay on magic as a methodology in psychology.

Workout

Train not only my body, but also my mind. Btw I can bench two plates (225lb).

Alan

An independent and self-motivated engineer with a split focus in Software, Optimization, and Finance

Portfolio

Some are still in Prgress

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eCommerce 🏪

PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, MySQL, Google Analytics

Under maintenance ...

Landing Page 📄

PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript

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Kiosk 🤳

ReactJS

In Progress ...

RideShare 🚗

Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, Nginx on AWS EC2, EBS, ELB, MongoDB, NodeJS, React Native

In Progress ...

Chatbot 🤖

Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Redis, Gitlab, JIRA, Jenkins, Azure ML Natural Language Understanding services

My Resume
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WORK EXPERIENCE

7 Internships & 1 Startup Experience

Introduced a platform on GCP for 500+ quants and traders to simulate and live-trade algorithmic quantitative strategies in the crypto markets
Developed NodeJS and Python Flask microservices on Kubernetes with RabbitMQ messaging, gRPC, and MySQL to interface with finance brokers

Crypto Arsenal , Co-founder & CTO

Build collaborative ads with Hack and ReactJS to empower brands to run dynamic ads for catalog sales or conversions objectives
Developed monitoring of latency and error rate for API and GraphQL endpoints and created dashboards and alerting through Python

Meta (Facebook) , Software Engineering Intern

Built global ad platforms and search services on Yahoo with ML and full stack development in Java and Python
Trained context-aware NLP model to serve content recommendations and ads with Golang gateway on publishers website

Yahoo , Software Engineering Intern

Built distributed systems and pipelines for real time vehicle data streams with Python and AWS for global fleet metrics analysis
Designed and collaborated cross-team to develop full stack platform with Java Spring Boot and ReactJS to manage releases and rollouts
Developed Golang microservices and machine learning models to collect and process issues from over 1.5 millions vehicles

Tesla , Software Engineering Intern

Created full-stack solution to deliver Apple Maps core services and data to Kubernetes and bare-metal clusters worldwide
Implemented algorithm and develop load balancer with Ruby, Perl, and Nginx to reduce data delivery time by over 50%
Worked on API development and UI design to reduce 40% of SREreaction time by automating workflows with JavaScript and Rails

Apple , Software Engineering Intern

Engineered tooling and platforms to manage Kubernetes on Google Cloud with over 60 clusters and 500 services in Golang
Developed jobs to monitor over 400+ SQL database performance and defined SLO to ensure high service availability
Improved network fault tolerance by reducing 90% of DNS resolution time to reliably handle 180k requests per second during server failure
Built multithreaded Kubernetes controllers in Go with caching to concurrently manage custom datastores such as MySQL and Redis

Shopify , Production Engineering Intern

Rails microservices for cloud computing, monitoring, cost management, and DevOps services
Implemented TDD and Jenkins CI front and back-end API testing using Rspec Rspec and Capybara
Built an AI chat-bot with Natural Language Processing and APIs to streamline CI/CD and facilitate Agile development

Blackberry , Full Stack Developer Intern

Built a ReactJS kiosk app and developed features on eCommerce site in PHP & MySQL
Developed a responsive landing page using HTML, Javascript, CSS, and Google Analytics
Nominated for 2018 Engineering Co-op Students of the Year Awards at University of Waterloo

Pacific Fresh & First Aid , Junior Web & eCommerce Developer

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WORK EXPERIENCE